Modeling agency founder Eileen Ford, who shaped a generation’s standards of beauty as she built an empire and launched the careers of Candice Bergen, Lauren Hutton, Jane Fonda and countless others, has died.

She was 92 and died on Wednesday, according to Arielle Baran, a spokeswoman for Derris & Co, which handles public relations for Ford.

Ford was known for her steely manner and great eye for talent.

She demanded the highest level of professionalism from her models, putting them on strict diets and firing those with a taste for late-night revelry.

Her discipline pushed Ford Model Agency to the top of its field, making multimillionaires of both Ford and her late husband, Jerry, who handled the company’s business affairs.

“I think our success came from Eileen’s energy and her bluntness and, to some extent, her comfort with confrontation,” Jerry Ford told USA Today in 1997.

“A fortune teller once told her if she wasn’t an agent, she should be, because all the stars pointed that way. She’s always loved to tell people what to do.”

Ford often said she felt a motherly responsibility toward her models, and often invited her youngest hires to live at her Upper East Side apartment until they established themselves.