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TISSAGE DE FIBRIES - model: Jena Goldsack - photography: Claudia Knoepfel - fashion editor: Celia Azoulay - hair: Damien Boissinot - makeup: Christelle Coquet - Vogue Paris March 2017
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cant wait for fashion week ! 😱😱
hoping to see karlie kloss, constance jablonski, toni garrn, jourdan dunn, andreea diaconu, anna ewers, anja rubik etc. all💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃
karlie’s # now….😪😶😑…
So the next month I’ll start my YouTube fashion/model channel, so this are the topics I’d like to talk about, which one i should do first
1) best new comers
2) nepo/ insta girls
3) best & worst walkers 2016
4) underrated & overrated models
If you have any other suggestions, just tell me😌
The fashion industry is fickle and only luck is on your side, or perhaps it is not. The determining factors of your success are predisposed before you are even born; your height, body type, facial structure, etc. It’s all a genetics game before you can even call yourself a ‘model’. After that, only luck comes into play whether your look is ‘in’ and you receive work. Success arrives exponentially as a model, however once your time is up, you are thrown away like used goods as another model comes to take your place instantly. There are models who are trapped in very long, slave-like contract periods with very little to show of it. I personally know of many who receive almost no money after tax, agency commission, and conversion rates: These girls were fed dreams that instead became nightmares as agency debt piled up; who else is the pay for constant travel, accommodation, food, language classes, comp cards building up, but the model? These girls that I know of have, not surprisingly, disappeared from the industry only to return to their remote village without their promised success. I personally am of the lucky few who are blessed with a great team of bookers and agencies working alongside myself for the betterment of my career. However even despite this, there have been numerous occasions where not even my agencies could help, it is the people of the other end whom are the problem: There are too many who take advantage of a model’s young age and use this to their self satisfaction. A regular, normal minded human should not be attempting to prey on a girl who is there to work and is afraid of speaking up (as being someone ‘hard to work with’ may cost you a job). I was once shooting a lookbook where the stylist, helping me dress, used this chance to feel my body up much more than necessary and continued to do so throughout the entire shoot. Countless times have I had to undress in undesirable public situations, but even now I can remember the disgusting feel of this man’s hands tracing my body. Most of us start when underaged, we develop and mature as women under all this as the norm. What has already happened has happened, but please do not let this continue to be so.
The reality of a proper, agency signed model is far from what anyone may imagine. Your body is essentially your product to sell. The maintaining of your appearance, dealing with the aftermath of heavy make-up and hair, going to an endless amount of castings, holding unnatural poses for hours, shooting winter clothing in summer, and summer clothing in the winter, fashion month, is hard. This is a physically demanding job that is also very mentally draining, especially when you do not speak the language of whatever country you are in.
Fernanda Ly, HOW SHOULD A MODEL BE TREATED? (via fkaho)
Anonymous asked:
random and potentially stupid question: how do u "learn" about fashion and the industry? its interested me for a while now but only on the surface level (like looking at dresses from collections and saying "thats pretty" or "i dont like that" but based on my own tastes) but i want to know more and i dont even know where to start. how did you come to know so much about the industry and how everything works and the history of fashion, whats good and bad, etc?
frackoviak answered:
It’s not stupid at all! Fashion is such a huge industry and concept and everyone has to start somewhere, I wouldn’t say I’m all that knowledgeable with it all but my advice if you want to know more is just work out what you like and go from there. Say you really like a Dior show, look it up on vogue.com/fashion-shows and they should say who was the creative director/head designer at that time, then look up other collections under them and if they have worked at any other houses. Then look up Dior collections under the other creative directors, you’ll gradually start recognising elements which are unique to certain designers and which are key to the brand identity, and you’ll naturally be working out what you like and what you don’t. If you look into the collections and eras you like you’ll probably come across reviews saying whether they were well received or later appreciated or whatever, and whether they were commercially successful, but fashion is also art so you are more than entitled to your own opinions and don’t have to agree with the critics
