Model.Live: A New Reality Series from vogue.tv

[wednesdays child]

I just watched it... mildly interesting so far........ Cato looks beautiful

 

[sethii]

They should have had the girls talking more because the part with the IMG guys talking felt so slow and awkward, like some of them didn't want to do this show

 

[Paws]

^The part with the heads & bookers talking was what I found really interesting......how they decide to promote/market the girls!!

 

[fer19dog]

They should have had the girls talking more because the part with the IMG guys talking felt so slow and awkward, like some of them didn't want to do this show

I got the same impression from those guys.

 

[satin chic]

This was pretty interesting, actually, but it felt quite staged when the IMG people were discussing about the girls.
Cato is really beautiful! She's my favourite of the bunch.

 

[sethii]

The parts which would be most interesting won't be filmed It's a pseudo-documentary, because it's so reliant on the sponser I doubt they will show anything really controversial.

 

[sarah13]

The music had much to be desired. Has that same sad piano plonking as the Seemless documentary from Vogue.

 

[Fontenrose]

It's going to be about last season? For some reason I thought for the internet they would do THIS season.

 

[Fontenrose]

Next episode is out. And it is about this season. Whew!

Comments from the peanut gallery.

 

[sarah13]

^ Yay. I would be so insignificant if it was filmed 6 months ago.

 

[Paws]

Oh I am glad. Will be watching it later!!

Thanks for the information

 

[cold_sun]

When Cao smiles with showing her teeths, she quite reminds me of a nordic version of Bianca Balti

 

[Susanna-Cole]

I just watched the first 2 episodes yesterday. I like Austria best, she's gorgeous!

^The part with the heads & bookers talking was what I found really interesting......how they decide to promote/market the girls!!

Yeah actually I found that part kind of interesting too...

 

[á la Balenciaga]

dude this show annoys me. it's only 5 minutes WTF!

 

[Paws]

That is what I thought also
I really did expect it to be a half hour at least!

 

[model_mom]

and as always...it's being so sugar coated.

 

[fer19dog]

Two new episodes are now up, Madeline and Austria leaving home and going to New York

now that all three girls are in NY next week will be the real thing I hope, showing the girls going to castings etc.
http://www.vogue.tv/#Watch/Video_Player/8/223

 

[Paws]

and as always...it's being so sugar coated.

Oh for sure!!!!

But I am hoping to learn something listening to the big shots at IMG talk!!

I can only hope......right?

 

[Paws]

Two new episodes are now up, Madeline and Austria leaving home and going to New York

now that all three girls are in NY next week will be the real thing I hope, showing the girls going to castings etc.
http://www.vogue.tv/#Watch/Video_Player/8/223

^That's what I hope also,
I would love to see the castings et.

 

[Fontenrose]

Tatiana at Jezebel had some comments on the last episode:

http://jezebel.com/5044809/vogues-modellive-models-are-strange-when-youre-an-agent

And it always rubs me the wrong way when I hear an agent talking about how "strange" a model is. Seeing as our bodies pay their bills, and as Austria in particular has a killer runway figure, a face that could launch a thousand campaigns, and a smile that could sell a ton of CoverGirl, it seems disingenuous and a touch gift-horseish for an agent who stands to make a significant cut of that future wealth to go on about what a simply wonderful genetic freak Austria is, with "the height" and "the hair" and that inexplicable "something in the eyes."

Seeing models as "strange" is just so utterly convenient to the narrative that sees us as carefree fashion sprites who spring, fully-formed at 5'11" and 34"-24"-34" (or smaller!), from unremarkable surroundings, eager and unquestioning and destined to do the industry's bidding. It's a narrative that renders invisible the constant struggle that staying in this industry really is — at least for 99% of models (it's a struggle I personally find rewarding — or as Sen Dog put it so eloquently, it's a fun job, but it's still a job). It's the narrative that motivates people like the accountant at my Barcelona agency to jokingly tell me that she finds it odd that my kind, after coming and "enjoying my beautiful city's sunshine, our men, our cuisine, and taking beautiful pictures," actually expect some kind of monetary compensation for our troubles and occasionally inquire as to how that all is going.

I like her comments more than the actual series. They should have Tatiana narrating or typing comments on the screen to mix it up. I am thinking of Gemany's Next Top Model on Youtube, where the translator typed his/her own comments during the ads. Better. than. rest. of. show. combined! That is what new media is all about. Mix it up, not too straight.