Model Behavior (PLEASE READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING)

[eizhowa]

^Those sort of stories are always so incredibly biased.

They ask a few models who have had a really bad experience and try to blame one agency for the entire industry. I don't believe for a second that the experience of this girl is representative of how And I absolutely don't think it is impossible to be a top model without an eating disorder. If anything, I think the top models are the most likely to have figured out a way to live sustainably regarding food and exercise.

Perhaps the model in the story was using an unusually wide definition that would include smoking as something that makes your eating "disordered".

I feel like a news story like this pops up every few years and it is always the same. One model steps forwards and talks about her struggles, and the news agency puts all the blame on one person who works in fashion. Can we please have a new perspective? The one they keep serving us is too simplistic. But perhaps this perspective is the best for creating sympathy and making people want to watch the news channel?

 

[AtticusFinch]

^Those sort of stories are always so incredibly biased.

They ask a few models who have had a really bad experience and try to blame one agency for the entire industry. I don't believe for a second that the experience of this girl is representative of how And I absolutely don't think it is impossible to be a top model without an eating disorder. If anything, I think the top models are the most likely to have figured out a way to live sustainably regarding food and exercise.

Perhaps the model in the story was using an unusually wide definition that would include smoking as something that makes your eating "disordered".

I feel like a news story like this pops up every few years and it is always the same. One model steps forwards and talks about her struggles, and the news agency puts all the blame on one person who works in fashion. Can we please have a new perspective? The one they keep serving us is too simplistic. But perhaps this perspective is the best for creating sympathy and making people want to watch the news channel?

WELL SAID!

I also find the media plays a strange divide:
1. models earn so much and do nothing
2. models earn no money and are abused

 

[Deleted member 130879]

Although smoking isn't an eating disorder, some agents and even photographers give incentives to models to start smoking because well... you know why. Same goes for some illicit substances that are given away by some agents.

Let's not sugar coat anything here: this happens. I've listened/seen it with my own eyes and ears. As I've seen 14 years old walking topless/with see through tops during fashion week with everyone thinking it was normal. You have amazing agents/bookers/professionals but you also get the usual dirtbag and there are plenty of them. They like to dress their despicable behaviours as having "a vision".

And then don't forget the designers. I worked mainly with new designers, some straight out of school. While most of them did their collections a size 8UK/36EU, I've found designers using 6UK/34EU even 4UK/32EU. The latter even threw a tantrum against the models before the show. I've only seen one designer, in 7 years working in the industry (smaller European market), saying sorry for the choice of sizing (the clothes were a strange 6UK/34EU and she was actually sorry as it took us hours to be able to fit the models into the clothes and some of the outfits had to be left out because absolutely no girl could fit inside it).

 

[AtticusFinch]

From 2016 but I didn't see it on the thread.

Source: Facebook
http://imgur.com/a/jHH0l

Source: Facebook
http://imgur.com/a/1cv7g

https://www.facebook.com/ruby.j.wilson.7/posts/10155086659046029

 

[eizhowa]

From 2016 but I didn't see it on the thread.

Source: Facebook
http://imgur.com/a/jHH0l

Source: Facebook
http://imgur.com/a/1cv7g

https://www.facebook.com/ruby.j.wilson.7/posts/10155086659046029

"through no fault of my own"

Had she made explicit reservations against wearing fur in her contract or in conversations before the shoot? I doubt it.

 

[fashionkitten7]

^ I believe it says 'through no fault of my agents', unless she editted the post since..

 

[eizhowa]

^You are correct. I am assuming this meant her agents clarified that she did not do fur beforehand, and that the client then ignored it or forgot it.

 

[dsamg]

"through no fault of my own"

Had she made explicit reservations against wearing fur in her contract or in conversations before the shoot? I doubt it.

She obviously had no problems with fur in her top runway days (at Anna Sui, for Marc Jacobs in the CFDA book etc) so her post seems a little high and mighty to me. Is it only ok when it is for a big client? Good on her though, I can't understand how fur is still so prevalent. Cruelty is very outdated.

 

[fashionkitten7]

^ I don't really know who this model is nor do I know anything about her career, but just in her defense, could she have changed her mind since?

I don't really know how the industry works when it comes to fur, maybe you're not allowed by your agency to say know to a big client?

Anyho, I'm glad she's not doing any fur now, as it really is cruel and outdated.

 

[Benn98]

I believe this!!

Kate Moss Got Into a Scuffle at Cannes and Mary J. Blige, Noted Peacekeeper, Was There to Break It Up

by Katherine Cusumano
May 24, 2017 10:19 am

On Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, Kate Moss graced the runway at Naomi Campbell's Fashion for Relief charity show in an Atelier Versace minidress and blazer alongside fellow models like Bella Hadid, Heidi Klum, and Kendall Jenner. Meanwhile, on the other side of La Croisette, Mary J. Blige attended the premiere of The Meyerowitz Stories, which stars Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, before she, too, walked in the Fashion for Relief show. (Blige, a longtime friend of Campbell, has walked the show in years past.) Then, both model Moss and R&B superstar made their way to the Fashion for Relief afterparty, for a bit of light (or not so light, as the case may be) revelry.

It was only a matter of time before the crowd got loose. (It wouldn't be a fashion party any other way.) According to one witness at the party, in the early morning, Moss got into a bit of a tiff with a fellow partygoer: “Kate was really letting rip,” the source told The Sun. “She was downing bottles of wine and throwing the flower arrangements around.”

But Blige, noted peacekeeper, tired of the drama, who immortalized her philosophy in “Family Affair,” singing the oft-cited bars, “Don’t need no hateration, holleration in this dancery,” quickly intervened to prevent the scuffle from escalating. She and a group of fellow party attendees separated Moss and her opponent before they, who, according to the same source, “started squaring up,” which Moss “didn’t like one bit.”

Did Blige urge the two women to leave their situations at the door? To leave all that BS outside? (Blige has been candid about her own drama throughout her career, both in interviews and in song—never more so than on her most recent record, last month’s Strength of a Woman, which finds the musician fresh out of a divorce and struggling to even motivate herself to record, according to an interview with the Los Angeles Times.) And where was Campbell throughout the affair?

After pulling the two women apart, Blige reportedly acted as mediator of the tussle, until other guests also demanded Moss’s opponent be removed from the party. (It’s not clear from the witness accounts whether the woman was indeed booted out.)

Then, Blige, Moss, and company just danced it out.

Source: https://www.wmagazine.com/story/kate-moss-mary-j-blige-party-cannes

 

[eizhowa]

It seemes it is very important to not let anyone know who the opponent was. Unless it was someone who wasn't famous at all, they should both be mentioned.

I really really really want to know who it was

 

[dsamg]

^ I don't really know who this model is nor do I know anything about her career, but just in her defense, could she have changed her mind since?

Very true

 

[dsamg]

It seemes it is very important to not let anyone know who the opponent was. Unless it was someone who wasn't famous at all, they should both be mentioned.

I really really really want to know who it was

Let's hope it was Bella. Just read a nauseating Vogue UK article:

In fact, Bella herself isn’t so sure that there is anyone booking as diverse jobs as she is right now. "It is kind of rare to be able to do all of that and it’s really cool to be able to do a variety of things. I don't really know anyone who has done this”.

vogue.co.uk

Omg, get over yourself. We can only hope Moss knocked her down a notch.

 

[eizhowa]

But surely if it was Bella, it would have been reported? Who would let Kates name drop but not Bellas?

Ehm what jobs are Bella booking that are very diverse?

 

[Benn98]

Omg, get over yourself. We can only hope Moss knocked her down a notch.

Ugh, did she say that??
Yes, for an Instagirl it's certainly commendable, but not for average models who came from nothing. I saw some pictures of her at the Bulgari perfume launch event in Italy, you know the one where they literally treated her like she's about to marry Prince Harry, and I thought it was a bit much.

 

[zoom]

Seems Bella is making the dire mistake of starting to believe her own press. Wont end well, it never does for those who lose perspective on their fame and get lost in ego as a result.

 

[artemovartem]

From Lia's ask.fm account:

my screens


WTF? She blame clients for not talking with her. But then she's answering to someone like this. Please fade

She also said once that she's really disappointed in this industry. But it's a well paid job so that's why she still there. I know... truth, kinda. But be honest with yourself first, why tell this to the world?!

 

[eizhowa]

What is the reason for this supposed discrimination targeted specifically at the russians? Does she think other people believe all russian models are spies or something?

 

[kokobombon]

^maybe homophobic? does this supposed discrimination against russians has anything to do with the political situation in US, perhaps...?

 

[Valentine27]

Such a cold and rude answer of her. Replying this way to a fan is not excusable for me, especially when you open yourself this kind of Q&A social media account. The question was cute and she completely dissed her. This is not the first time I read something like that about her (or about Odette), and I'm quite disappointed because they seemed like the coolest at first!