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Some said you need to be hungry (desperate), but you can’t look desperate, persistent, hardworking? Stay healthy? (Healthy is losing its meaning), look cute (I don’t know), starve yourself till you die, ‘Crack’ as high as the sky? Pay a photographer for a professional portfolio (which one?), stay thin (how thin is thin) etc
I could go on and on, but no! As it is not very clear as to what ‘the industry’ really expects from the model to enable her/his success in this hectic industry. In the meantime, who can justify how the ‘new age model’ must be in order to work?
What’s up with all those fashion industry people who keep calling the agency to book me (the model) for shows, but all they do better than anything else is sit there whining on and on about how big my ass(et) is?
Why don’t you stop stressing the models, and decide on which model, you want to work with, and work!
Why are you signing the model then one month later complaining about their weight? Why not just terminate the contract if they stop looking like what you anticipated instead of ‘hooking them up’ on what’s not good for them even though it seems good to them?
Or better yet, call Tyrone!
I am talking to the young gorgeous girls hustling in the industry; doing whatever they do to make it to the next show, casting, campaign etc.
Who are you and whose are you?
Whose standard do you live by and why?
What value does it add it to your life?
About 5 years ago, when I finally walked into a meeting with the agency’s client who had been dying to meet me, the agent called me to the side, talking about “I am too much.”
“Too much?” I thought to myself.
“I would appreciate if you tone down a bit!” Don’t look too hungry!” she continued.
“Hungry?” I asked myself.
But when I tried to do what I thought she meant by tone down, they now flipped the script on me without a warning, and said I was not hungry enough for the job!
Maybe they should start having castings labeled ‘Must be hungry’ castings/ auditions only!
Then the ‘not hungry’ bunch of models can stay away.
Someone’s asking why I keep talking about this and I am saying I have been there done that! However, after all these days and years in the industry, rejection has been my motivation and pushed me to achieve more than I anticipated. So, if you trust in people to determine your stability/prosperity/success in whatever you are doing, then you will never fulfill your purpose.
By faith, you and I have to work towards goals, soaring into high heights because we have already been given the power to make it happen, and the life to live in abundance.
So, no settling for less, because what you tolerate, you allow to exist!
I also thank Almighty for faith; the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith imparts revelation and truth, and so it is the reason we believe, before we see or achieve. It is the driving force that gets me to where I want to be, before I even know how to get there.
Is it not true that, someone randomly woke up one morning and decided that his fashion models would be of size zero or size 2? On the flip side, someone else also woke up one morning and decided that plus-size models would work better for his/her product?
At the end of the day, can we really say that the person who decided to popularize and work with ‘plus-size models’ failed? Since they are not as popular as the typical runway ‘Size zero-model’?
No! They did not fail!
Let’s just say that the majority of people within the industry decided to go with size 2 models. This has nothing to do with Failure or success.
‘Trendsetting,’ which is how I refer to this, takes faith, a gut and determination. Once you set the pace, then it’s more like a numbers game. Some people will run with you, and some will take the opposite direction. There is nothing wrong with taking a minority route! It may seem different to majority, but it is just as much an opinionated option.
We have thousands of trendsetters in the society we live in today, but out of all of them, only one or two options become popular, almost as if to outclass the rest of the options. Then majority rules! But then again, it doesn’t unless you let it.
Do you realize that a group of people who have a lot in common with you may see you set a standard? Some of them will pick it up and run with it immediately, knowing that it is what they really want. Alternatively, some will watch in the beginning with skepticism, and later on when they see it picking up, they join and run along with it until another trend/standard is set. This simply means that if you belong to the fashion industry and you want something different from the norm, you must believe in it and make it work for you as well as your product or service.
Nevertheless, the last thing you can do is hesitate. You are an artist in your own right, and you know what’s good for you and your product or service. It is true that, as an artist, knowing what you want and setting your standards is the best thing you can do for yourself and whatever you do!
“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.”
-George Washington Carver
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