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^I'm happy to translate the last two pages then, oliveu88
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Thanks a lot guys! Looking forward to read the translation
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Here's my quick translation of page 3. I'll do the last page right this minute
The shape of Skriver’s face is interpreted as classic beauty and that is unfortunately not at the highest rate on the catwalk. She explains the challenge herself:
“Right now the trend in fashion shows is to be androgynous. And I have quite feminine features. At least I’m told. I’m a bit too girly. I’m not special enough. I’m too…I don’t know if you would say pretty, but too dull. Too normal. I don’t have this thing they call ‘edgy’. I’m more what you would call a ‘beauty’.”
Normally a ‘beauty’ is doing the best in the commercial part of the fashion industry where advertisement is being made. Here it’s about appealing to the broad masses and therefore necessary with a easily relatable face, which people in the industry likes to describe as ‘someone your mom think is pretty’, or ‘a hot version of the girl next door’, that encourages middleclass consumers in a mall in Ohio or Fisketorvet (mall) in Copenhagen to either be her or be with her. This is also reflected in the body ideals. Where the ideal catwalk model fits a Danish size 30 the commercial world gives room for curves and here a Danish size 36 is perfectly accepted.
“They can be more human”, Skriver says.
“Fashion models have to be more…”, and here she’s sucking in her cheeks to a trout.
Actually she doesn’t need to suck in the cheeks to portray the skinny frame that is required of the fashion models. She has that frame. Her so-called comp-card – a A5 sized business card with 3 pictures and her measurements – describes her as 76 – 58 – 85 (in cm). She describes herself as ‘without much curve’.
“ I almost don’t have any hips, so in that way I’ve been lucky”, she says.
‘Lucky’ is meant for professional purposes. JS’s straight lines are good for her career. There’s not much room for neither breasts nor hips on the catwalk, even less in the past few years. The message is clear from almost every agent in the industry: fashion has never been skinnier. No one really knows why and everyone is passing on the monkey (question). As the former model, now sociologist, Ashley Mears writes about the fashion industry in the book ‘Pricing Beauty’: “Ask the designers why they hire skinny models and they answer that that’s what the agents are offering. Ask the agents why they promote the skinny models and they answer that that’s what the designers want. And so it goes in circles. “
Funny enough does JS – whose body is formally ideal – have other ideals for her figure. She would like her narrow hips, that she’s feeling lucky about careerwise, to be a bit broader.
“Just like everybody else you become more and more womanly, so hopefully it will arrive at some point. “
It’s a private wish. She’s missing the curves whose absence is giving her professional success.
“ I would really like to have bigger breasts,” she says. “Not much, but a cup or two wouldn’t bother me.
On the other hand she’s happy with her bum.
“It’s there my only curve is placed. It does go slightly out”.
JS has had her make-up done. She drops off the bathrobe and is then standing in a pair of bashful briefs while Carey is finding the first dress of the day, a short floral black and blue number with highheeled black sandals to go with it. The dress is too big. It’s a size 34 so the stylist Tom is fitting it with two safety pins.
Feeling at home she steps onto the stage in front of the white wall. Her hair is long and wavy, her skin sparkles, the dress is fitted snug.
It’s 11.45 and the photoshoot commence. Sharif is lying ready on the floor under a dish-like blitz approx. 2 meters in diameter. Hairdresser Rolando has changed his cap, so to speak, and is now standing 1,5 meter from JS, just out of the camera frame with a cardboard panel that he uses to flutter wind in her hair. Behind him Matt is holding a small grey panel over her head in a 45 degree angle. Strangely enough it all looks very important yet completely aimless.
JS lets her hair fall down in front of her face. She takes it away. She runs her hand through her hair. Then she leans forward and gaze into the camera. She holds every pose for about 2 seconds, enough for Sharif to take 3-4 shots, and then she moves again, straightens her back, shoots her chest out, change the weight from her right to left leg, lean her head on the side and looks lazily into the lens. She places her right and on the hip, move it back the neck and lets her gaze slide towards an imaginary horizon.
Ten minutes later Harry, Sharif and Tom look through the first set of photos on the monitor.
“It is so beautiful”, Tom says. “It feels just you’re like walking down the beach and sees her and just ‘wauw’!”
At 13.00 it’s time to lunch. The menu consists of ecological vegetable soup, Catalan chicken with fried tomatoes and caramelized onions, fried potatoes and carrots, penne-pasta with tomato sauce, cous cous-salat and a green salat with radishes and cherry tomatoes. JS puts on her white bathrobe and digs in the buffet. She pours herself a bowl of soup and fills her plate with chicken, carrots and green salat. She avoids the pasta and potatoes. She’s not supposed to have too many carbohydrates.
Soon the photoshoot continues and towards the end of the afternoon she nestles down in a short crème coloured dress with lace on the sides. 3 clothespins make it fit snugly.
The shape of Skriver’s face is interpreted as classic beauty and that is unfortunately not at the highest rate on the catwalk. She explains the challenge herself:
“Right now the trend in fashion shows is to be androgynous. And I have quite feminine features. At least I’m told. I’m a bit too girly. I’m not special enough. I’m too…I don’t know if you would say pretty, but too dull. Too normal. I don’t have this thing they call ‘edgy’. I’m more what you would call a ‘beauty’.”
Normally a ‘beauty’ is doing the best in the commercial part of the fashion industry where advertisement is being made. Here it’s about appealing to the broad masses and therefore necessary with a easily relatable face, which people in the industry likes to describe as ‘someone your mom think is pretty’, or ‘a hot version of the girl next door’, that encourages middleclass consumers in a mall in Ohio or Fisketorvet (mall) in Copenhagen to either be her or be with her. This is also reflected in the body ideals. Where the ideal catwalk model fits a Danish size 30 the commercial world gives room for curves and here a Danish size 36 is perfectly accepted.
“They can be more human”, Skriver says.
“Fashion models have to be more…”, and here she’s sucking in her cheeks to a trout.
Actually she doesn’t need to suck in the cheeks to portray the skinny frame that is required of the fashion models. She has that frame. Her so-called comp-card – a A5 sized business card with 3 pictures and her measurements – describes her as 76 – 58 – 85 (in cm). She describes herself as ‘without much curve’.
“ I almost don’t have any hips, so in that way I’ve been lucky”, she says.
‘Lucky’ is meant for professional purposes. JS’s straight lines are good for her career. There’s not much room for neither breasts nor hips on the catwalk, even less in the past few years. The message is clear from almost every agent in the industry: fashion has never been skinnier. No one really knows why and everyone is passing on the monkey (question). As the former model, now sociologist, Ashley Mears writes about the fashion industry in the book ‘Pricing Beauty’: “Ask the designers why they hire skinny models and they answer that that’s what the agents are offering. Ask the agents why they promote the skinny models and they answer that that’s what the designers want. And so it goes in circles. “
Funny enough does JS – whose body is formally ideal – have other ideals for her figure. She would like her narrow hips, that she’s feeling lucky about careerwise, to be a bit broader.
“Just like everybody else you become more and more womanly, so hopefully it will arrive at some point. “
It’s a private wish. She’s missing the curves whose absence is giving her professional success.
“ I would really like to have bigger breasts,” she says. “Not much, but a cup or two wouldn’t bother me.
On the other hand she’s happy with her bum.
“It’s there my only curve is placed. It does go slightly out”.
JS has had her make-up done. She drops off the bathrobe and is then standing in a pair of bashful briefs while Carey is finding the first dress of the day, a short floral black and blue number with highheeled black sandals to go with it. The dress is too big. It’s a size 34 so the stylist Tom is fitting it with two safety pins.
Feeling at home she steps onto the stage in front of the white wall. Her hair is long and wavy, her skin sparkles, the dress is fitted snug.
It’s 11.45 and the photoshoot commence. Sharif is lying ready on the floor under a dish-like blitz approx. 2 meters in diameter. Hairdresser Rolando has changed his cap, so to speak, and is now standing 1,5 meter from JS, just out of the camera frame with a cardboard panel that he uses to flutter wind in her hair. Behind him Matt is holding a small grey panel over her head in a 45 degree angle. Strangely enough it all looks very important yet completely aimless.
JS lets her hair fall down in front of her face. She takes it away. She runs her hand through her hair. Then she leans forward and gaze into the camera. She holds every pose for about 2 seconds, enough for Sharif to take 3-4 shots, and then she moves again, straightens her back, shoots her chest out, change the weight from her right to left leg, lean her head on the side and looks lazily into the lens. She places her right and on the hip, move it back the neck and lets her gaze slide towards an imaginary horizon.
Ten minutes later Harry, Sharif and Tom look through the first set of photos on the monitor.
“It is so beautiful”, Tom says. “It feels just you’re like walking down the beach and sees her and just ‘wauw’!”
At 13.00 it’s time to lunch. The menu consists of ecological vegetable soup, Catalan chicken with fried tomatoes and caramelized onions, fried potatoes and carrots, penne-pasta with tomato sauce, cous cous-salat and a green salat with radishes and cherry tomatoes. JS puts on her white bathrobe and digs in the buffet. She pours herself a bowl of soup and fills her plate with chicken, carrots and green salat. She avoids the pasta and potatoes. She’s not supposed to have too many carbohydrates.
Soon the photoshoot continues and towards the end of the afternoon she nestles down in a short crème coloured dress with lace on the sides. 3 clothespins make it fit snugly.
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i am liking the sound of this article/interview - honest and interesting!!
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^Totally rooting for Josephine! Completely honest well done!
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...and here's the last page (4) translated. I really agree with you guys, she seems refreshingly honest and immediate
Sharif begins taking shots but Harry is not satisfied. According to the art director JS looks fat.
“It looks like she’s got a big butt”, Harry says out loud.
JS has been in front of the camera for 5 hours. She’s standing leaned against the wall, her back swayed. The problem – because it is a problem – is the way the patterned stitching curves on her butt.
“The laces are stretching”, Harry says. “It’s not really flattering.”
No one makes a move. JS straightens up, pulls down in the dress and poses her way out of the troubles. Half an hour later when I, on the subway platform asks her what she thought of Harry’s objection/comment, she smiles and reminds me that it was just a professional critique which at the same time worked as a compliment of the body part that she’s personally the most fond of.
“ I do like my ***. So: ‘Thank you’”.
JS feels well prepared by her upbringing to handle the rough tone and harsh demands of the model industry. Her parents, Mette and Harry, data analyst at ATP and marine biologist and Copenhagen University (KU) met through Panbladet – a magazine for homosexuals. She wanted a child, Mette wrote in an advert, and Harry responded.
“Then they met and had a baby” as JS explains it.
She grew up with her mother in Nørrebro (Copenhagen) and visited her dad in Vesterbro (Copenhagen) during the weekends. The walked together in the early Pride parade in the streets of Copenhagen and it was little Josephine who made sure that the family’s rainbow coloured flag remained in the finest condition. It was important for her.
“Nobody should be allowed to say anything mean about my parents. Nobody should think that they were different”, Josephine says, who still joins the parade if she’s in Denmark at the end of august.
Once she went on a date with a guy who didn’t like her unconventional family form. No more dates followed.
“If you don’t like my parents. Fine. Get away”, she says.
It’s a mechanism, she explains. The criticism glances off me. It’s people’s own problem. And if J didn’t bring it all from home she was soon to learn after her debut as a model. She describes a process where the industry by ‘beating me down’ has built me up. If she was told that her arms were too soft, she would start making push-ups. If she was told that her eyes didn’t work she would shrug her shoulders. It was a necessity on order to succeed.
Whether I have too long hair or too small ears or too long feet or an *** that’s too big, you learn to say that it’s a part of me. Otherwise you cut and dye your hair but then it’s too short and blond and then you learn that some people like you for what you are and some people don’t.
For many models it is a bit of a lottery how their body develops. All the exercises and diets of the world are useless if the hips grow on a collision course of the measurements in demand. Suddenly the designers will prefer younger girls, new faces, other curves. From one moment to another the career can be over.
“Then I’m going back to school to study medicine,” she says.
“I’m lucky in that way as I have something to return to. It’s not a life or death-job for me, as it can be for some of the other girls.”
So far J is dreaming of landing a contract with one of the big/expensive brands. She wants to be their face. For an example she wants to be the Estée Lauder-girl.
“So when you see my face you think of them. Now that’s what bring in the money.”
It’s the same when JS is asked about her collegiate rolemodels. On one side she mentions Freja Beha Erichsen – Denmark’s most sought after model atm ranged as number 13 of the world and lately with a exclusive contract with Maybelline – not so much because of her success but because she most kindly welcomed newly arrived JS, á la “well hi, are you also Danish, welcome onboard, how are you doing?”. On the other side she mentions Giselle Bunchen, the now 32 year old Brazilian who for almost 10 years has been the worlds highest paid model and has already expanded her business to include hotel business, property investments, her own lingerie brand and the totally grotesquely popular Ipanema sandals, so that she today is worth a over a billion DKK, that she constantly shares with victims of earthquakes in Japan, HIV infected in Africa, rainforest conservation, cancer research, children’s hospitals and her own Luz Foundation who works to strengthen the self confidence of young girls.
“An empire”, as J calls it.
“Power women have always fascinated me. I think it’s commendable when we live in a world such dominated by men. To exploit all aspects of being pretty, that’s just…respect.”
The working day is about to end. JS catches the subway under Nassau Avenue, from where the ‘7’ rolls of towards Manhattan. All the seats are taken. She stands with her hand wrapped around a crossbar. When the possibility presents itself she always takes he subway home from work. After a whole day in front of the camera she needs to get lost in the crowd.
“Then I feel totally normal again.”
Sharif begins taking shots but Harry is not satisfied. According to the art director JS looks fat.
“It looks like she’s got a big butt”, Harry says out loud.
JS has been in front of the camera for 5 hours. She’s standing leaned against the wall, her back swayed. The problem – because it is a problem – is the way the patterned stitching curves on her butt.
“The laces are stretching”, Harry says. “It’s not really flattering.”
No one makes a move. JS straightens up, pulls down in the dress and poses her way out of the troubles. Half an hour later when I, on the subway platform asks her what she thought of Harry’s objection/comment, she smiles and reminds me that it was just a professional critique which at the same time worked as a compliment of the body part that she’s personally the most fond of.
“ I do like my ***. So: ‘Thank you’”.
JS feels well prepared by her upbringing to handle the rough tone and harsh demands of the model industry. Her parents, Mette and Harry, data analyst at ATP and marine biologist and Copenhagen University (KU) met through Panbladet – a magazine for homosexuals. She wanted a child, Mette wrote in an advert, and Harry responded.
“Then they met and had a baby” as JS explains it.
She grew up with her mother in Nørrebro (Copenhagen) and visited her dad in Vesterbro (Copenhagen) during the weekends. The walked together in the early Pride parade in the streets of Copenhagen and it was little Josephine who made sure that the family’s rainbow coloured flag remained in the finest condition. It was important for her.
“Nobody should be allowed to say anything mean about my parents. Nobody should think that they were different”, Josephine says, who still joins the parade if she’s in Denmark at the end of august.
Once she went on a date with a guy who didn’t like her unconventional family form. No more dates followed.
“If you don’t like my parents. Fine. Get away”, she says.
It’s a mechanism, she explains. The criticism glances off me. It’s people’s own problem. And if J didn’t bring it all from home she was soon to learn after her debut as a model. She describes a process where the industry by ‘beating me down’ has built me up. If she was told that her arms were too soft, she would start making push-ups. If she was told that her eyes didn’t work she would shrug her shoulders. It was a necessity on order to succeed.
Whether I have too long hair or too small ears or too long feet or an *** that’s too big, you learn to say that it’s a part of me. Otherwise you cut and dye your hair but then it’s too short and blond and then you learn that some people like you for what you are and some people don’t.
For many models it is a bit of a lottery how their body develops. All the exercises and diets of the world are useless if the hips grow on a collision course of the measurements in demand. Suddenly the designers will prefer younger girls, new faces, other curves. From one moment to another the career can be over.
“Then I’m going back to school to study medicine,” she says.
“I’m lucky in that way as I have something to return to. It’s not a life or death-job for me, as it can be for some of the other girls.”
So far J is dreaming of landing a contract with one of the big/expensive brands. She wants to be their face. For an example she wants to be the Estée Lauder-girl.
“So when you see my face you think of them. Now that’s what bring in the money.”
It’s the same when JS is asked about her collegiate rolemodels. On one side she mentions Freja Beha Erichsen – Denmark’s most sought after model atm ranged as number 13 of the world and lately with a exclusive contract with Maybelline – not so much because of her success but because she most kindly welcomed newly arrived JS, á la “well hi, are you also Danish, welcome onboard, how are you doing?”. On the other side she mentions Giselle Bunchen, the now 32 year old Brazilian who for almost 10 years has been the worlds highest paid model and has already expanded her business to include hotel business, property investments, her own lingerie brand and the totally grotesquely popular Ipanema sandals, so that she today is worth a over a billion DKK, that she constantly shares with victims of earthquakes in Japan, HIV infected in Africa, rainforest conservation, cancer research, children’s hospitals and her own Luz Foundation who works to strengthen the self confidence of young girls.
“An empire”, as J calls it.
“Power women have always fascinated me. I think it’s commendable when we live in a world such dominated by men. To exploit all aspects of being pretty, that’s just…respect.”
The working day is about to end. JS catches the subway under Nassau Avenue, from where the ‘7’ rolls of towards Manhattan. All the seats are taken. She stands with her hand wrapped around a crossbar. When the possibility presents itself she always takes he subway home from work. After a whole day in front of the camera she needs to get lost in the crowd.
“Then I feel totally normal again.”
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Thank you for translating karen sofie 
I met Josephine in 2011 and she was extremely sweet, great to see she has still a good head on her shoulders! It's frustrating that she isn't getting more work right now because her look isn't in but I'm sure it will come around again soon..
I met Josephine in 2011 and she was extremely sweet, great to see she has still a good head on her shoulders! It's frustrating that she isn't getting more work right now because her look isn't in but I'm sure it will come around again soon..
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She is so down to earth and admirable! i've always loved Josephine but now even more so!
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You are both very welcome, oliveu88 and widowsofculloden!
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Thanks a lot for your sweet karma, Valentine27 and Behiko!
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I really enjoyed the interview, great read and refreshingly honest.
There's an extended version available for free on riidr.com for those who might be interested. (Unfortunately it's in Danish and too long to translate.) The discount code is "modellen."
There's an extended version available for free on riidr.com for those who might be interested. (Unfortunately it's in Danish and too long to translate.) The discount code is "modellen."
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She was interviewed in a Danish daily morning show yesterday:
http://go.tv2.dk/articlestil/id-66771073:hun-er-en-af-verdens-smukkeste-piger.html
http://go.tv2.dk/articlestil/id-66771073:hun-er-en-af-verdens-smukkeste-piger.html
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W Magazine May 2013
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