Model's Age - How Young Is Too Young?

[francesca073]

How old is Yulia Kharlapanova? I can't find that nowhere.

 

[turnofflights]

embryonic stage

 

[la.vie.in.mode]

How old is Yulia Kharlapanova? I can't find that nowhere.

In FMD says she was borned October 6 1989
So, according to this she's turning 20 in a couple of days

 

[fashion tyger]

A model I have used in the past Erica Fletcher just signed with Next and moved to L.A. she just turned 16. She is very close with her family and I'm suprised they let her go but she told me she convinced her mother to let her go.....

 

[model_mom]

She is very close with her family and I'm suprised they let her go but she told me she convinced her mother to let her go.....

And there lies the jist of it....as long as you have moms (including myself) who get wrapped up in this fairy tale and let their young daughters jump into an industry that is allowed to take all kinds of liberties with our children....things that we would never allow in a normal teenager's life, then modeling agencies will keep churning out the idea that it's OK to market our youth as sex symbols......the bottom line falls not with the agencies but with the mothers that....

A. are reliving their own failed dreams through their daughters

B, have the mistaken idea that their little beauty is their next meal ticket

or C. (and the saddest of them all) can't stand up to their own kid and make them finish school before they take off to the "Big Apple"

No one can take your child and sign them until you as their mother sign on the dotted line......

 

[Fontenrose]

Parents who let their 16-year-olds go out in the world and mix with adults have to teach their kids (boys and girls) about acting on creepy behavior. Most teens know when someone is being a creep, but they need to practice how to react. Most creeps back off if they are called out on their behavior.

A very good book is "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin de Becker, a private detective. It emphasizes paying attention to your hunches, and lists some behaviors of predators.

The recent news items about director Roman Polanski and the previous criminal case of fashion designer Anand Jon seemed all too similar.

2005 Interview by the Mirror in the Polanski case:

If there is no makeup artist, at the very least, it is not intended to be a photo shoot.

If the photographer does not respect the limits discussed, that is a warning.

Young people are often stunned by their first experience out in the real world where other people, unlike their parents, family friends and teachers, have no concern at all for their well-being, and might even enjoy seeing them stumble.

 

[fashion tyger]

What I have noticed is that:

Older models are more reliable,more professional but sometimes lack enthusiasm and lose that "high fashion look"

Younger models are very enthusiastic have a "fresh look" and are naturally slender as opposed to a "forced" slender

That being said younger models will complain about hair,make-up,clothes they do not like,and the worst of all.....the stage mom.....

I have seen Photographers throw there hands in the air and literally "give up" shut down the shoot and send everyone home because a models mother will "hijack" the entire photoshoot.

 

[cologne_rocks]

lol so true about the last point!!!!

 

[agee]

I don't know what these moms are doing, but I am bothered by the fact that so many teen-aged girls go to photo shoots unaccompanied by an adult. Of course it is bad if they are disrupting the set, but perhaps the agents should give the moms some kind of etiquette lesson. I would rather there be an adult on the set looking out for the best interest of the model.

 

[fashion tyger]

I have heard this term used before.....GWAC.....guy with a camera

Stay away from him!!! The only reason he bought a camera and a couple of pieces of gear is so he can take pics of girls (or boys).....He doesn't love photography,he doesn't love fashion,he doesn't love art.....

He doesn't know how to play guitar so instead of joining a band he bought a camera to get girls.....sad but true.

 

[model_mom]

One of the things Ford instructed us right up front was

1. Do not go in to castings with your "your 15 year old"

2. Do not attend photo shoots with your daughter

3. Do not hang around backstage with your daughter

so....we had a system, if you feel like something makes you uncomfortable,pick up your things and walk out. I was always nearby with my cellphone and she always had her cell with her. Call it what you like "stage mom" or whatever...there was no way in hell I was going to let my 15 year old try to cope with 'adult situations' with no experience in that area.

On one campaign with a well known photographer,each model was instructed not to come back on the third day unless they were willing to take their clothes off.

On another day of castings she was instructed that 'more than likely' you will be required to take your top off.

I can't begin to tell you how many times you hear,"it's all in the name of art"....which is a lot of BS when you are talking about someone so young.

You can argue about this till hell freezes over but you know it's not a good idea to take someone so young and manipulate them into situations that the majority of them are not comfortable with.

 

[ad041715]

Monika Jagaciak is way too young in my opinion.
It's weird because she is the same age as I am! Not to mention we're a month and a day apart!

 

[agee]

^How old is she?

 

[Fontenrose]

She had a Hermes campaign at 13.

However, the young models you should be concerned for are the ones who are not as successful, not from well-off families, and can't buy additional plane tickets for family members, or even a ticket home for Christmas.

If they have to send money back home, they don't have the luxury of making certain decisions.

 

[*Bianca*]

agee, she is 15 at the moment.

 

[cologne_rocks]

lol the poor girl was sent to Asia when she was 13. That must have been very hard, regarding that she just started learning a little English in school that timeO_O

 

[*Bianca*]

For all the time she spent working in Japan and Singapore (main language is English there btw) I can't imagine that she was there alone.... she would've had to have had someone she knows, either from her mother agency, or family member, with her, and hopefully someone to help translate at jobs.

 

[agee]

She had a Hermes campaign at 13.

However, the young models you should be concerned for are the ones who are not as successful, not from well-off families, and can't buy additional plane tickets for family members, or even a ticket home for Christmas.

If they have to send money back home, they don't have the luxury of making certain decisions.

I completely agree. I don't know why the fashion industry is not subject to the same rules as the television and film industry. I know you can't regulate what happens inside developing countries, but once someone is shooting or doing other workin the US, Britain, France or Italy (I assume (hope) that the countries I mentioned have rules governing child entertainers), they should be subject to those rules. So my thoughts are first make it so that the fashion industry has to comply with the same rules as child actors, and then make sure that even non-native models are protected by those rules.

 

[Fontenrose]

Child actors belong to a union that protects them. This union exists because very popular mature male actors made it happen.

There is no one to make this happen for young teen girls.

 

[agee]

Thanks for the info Fontenrose. Hmmm, I did not realize that child stars were unionized, I knew that former child stars advocated for change in working conditions and how the money that the child performers made was managed.