Let's say that the man you spoke to is a professional agent I doubt it, but onto that later.
It'd be his job to find attractive, photogenic people to model or pose in front of a camera in hopes that modeling agents will agree to have said person wear (and thus model) their clothes or other such items.
A modeling gig therefor is a job where the model posses in front of a camera wearing clothes in a way that makes other people want to buy and wear them.