cologne_rocks
Active Member
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2009
- Messages
- 7,114
- Reaction score
- 2
Yeah i find that weird as well.
-
Announcing... The 2nd Annual theFashionSpot Awards. Vote NOW via the links below:
Designer of the Year
Ready-to-Wear Collection of the Year
Haute Couture Collection of the Year
Model of the Year
Magazine Cover of the Year
Ad Campaign of the Year
Thank you for participating!
VOTING WILL CLOSE 27/12/2024 EOD!
Model's Age - How Young Is Too Young?
- Thread starter Nemova
- Start date
Guess it's just a mod misunderstanding.
Made me quite annoyed for a second there - I thought it was one more thing that had to be censored.
Agencies/models lie all the time about their age so it's good to be able to have the record set straight.
Made me quite annoyed for a second there - I thought it was one more thing that had to be censored.
Agencies/models lie all the time about their age so it's good to be able to have the record set straight.
cologne_rocks
Active Member
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2009
- Messages
- 7,114
- Reaction score
- 2
^Which makes no sense at all. I doubt that you cannot have a strong first season when you're 22yo and have the look. Iris Strubegger for example started when she was 26yo @ fashion week in Paris, she turns 30 next year and still is in great demand, to be exact in a better demand than most younger faces who firstfaced on the runway in ss08 as well...
And somehow, there are more young than "mature" girls who flop after their first season.
And somehow, there are more young than "mature" girls who flop after their first season.
cologne_rocks
Active Member
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2009
- Messages
- 7,114
- Reaction score
- 2
^^ "walked for major brands"... she walked one time: Calvin Klein in 2002, that's it. She was even refused by some agencies due to her age in 2007.
Fontenrose
Active Member
- Joined
- Jan 26, 2008
- Messages
- 1,483
- Reaction score
- 3
the mod doesn't want Iris's age in her thread?
Think how much Tiger Wood's wife would have regretted it. She did maybe two test shoots in a bathing suit (as far as I can tell, since the same pictures are always used) and she gets tarred with the "former model" label as a smear. If she had done a nude shoot it would literally be everywhere by now.
That is an extreme example, but now that many girls can expect to go on to a real job after modeling instead of marriage and kids, some nude pictures might be a handicap. Or not. People just have to consider these things.
Think how much Tiger Wood's wife would have regretted it. She did maybe two test shoots in a bathing suit (as far as I can tell, since the same pictures are always used) and she gets tarred with the "former model" label as a smear. If she had done a nude shoot it would literally be everywhere by now.
That is an extreme example, but now that many girls can expect to go on to a real job after modeling instead of marriage and kids, some nude pictures might be a handicap. Or not. People just have to consider these things.
Drusilla_
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2008
- Messages
- 2,034
- Reaction score
- 1,948
Personally, I think models can start as young as they feel is appropriate, especially if they're working jobs that don't require them to compromise their health or morals. Miranda Kerr had her first modelling job in Dolly when she was two weeks shy of fourteen, and it caused a bit of a furore even though she was only modelling young girls' clothes in a teen magazine. She wasn't doing high-fashion jobs or posing for Victoria's Secret (which, for all its tackiness, should be lauded for choosing to only hire models over the age of 18) back then.
But full-time high-fashion modelling is really a different cup of tea altogether- it's a world of pressure on a model of any age (worries about retaining a hip circumference of 34 inches, about booking enough work, about being talked into taking one's clothes off for people who insist it's "art" and then don't treat one with respect, in order to book work), and even though it's bad enough for a 16-year-old, I'd draw the line at 13, or maybe 14. I know many models use their income to support their families, or came from poor backgrounds- but it's still unfair to them.
Also, if anyone says 18 is too old to start or that by the time you're past 21 you're too old to model, that is rubbish. Sasha Pivovarova didn't even send photographs of herself to an agency till she was 19. Elise Crombez was scouted at 18 (as was (back in prehistoric, pre-Internet days, if that means anything now- Claudia Schiffer, and even Cindy Crawford didn't begin modelling till she was 20). Lara Stone spent five years knocking around the model circuit and not booking jobs until Ricardo Tisci put her in the Givenchy couture show when she was 22. It's not even really a matter of age, I feel- if your look is liked well enough by a photographer/editor/designer who has some influence in the industry, it's not impossible to make a success of modelling no matter what your age is. There's no real justification for rushing a girl of whatever age into high-fashion modelling if she isn't ready for it.
But full-time high-fashion modelling is really a different cup of tea altogether- it's a world of pressure on a model of any age (worries about retaining a hip circumference of 34 inches, about booking enough work, about being talked into taking one's clothes off for people who insist it's "art" and then don't treat one with respect, in order to book work), and even though it's bad enough for a 16-year-old, I'd draw the line at 13, or maybe 14. I know many models use their income to support their families, or came from poor backgrounds- but it's still unfair to them.
Also, if anyone says 18 is too old to start or that by the time you're past 21 you're too old to model, that is rubbish. Sasha Pivovarova didn't even send photographs of herself to an agency till she was 19. Elise Crombez was scouted at 18 (as was (back in prehistoric, pre-Internet days, if that means anything now- Claudia Schiffer, and even Cindy Crawford didn't begin modelling till she was 20). Lara Stone spent five years knocking around the model circuit and not booking jobs until Ricardo Tisci put her in the Givenchy couture show when she was 22. It's not even really a matter of age, I feel- if your look is liked well enough by a photographer/editor/designer who has some influence in the industry, it's not impossible to make a success of modelling no matter what your age is. There's no real justification for rushing a girl of whatever age into high-fashion modelling if she isn't ready for it.
coco vaughn
Active Member
- Joined
- Nov 10, 2009
- Messages
- 4,472
- Reaction score
- 6
Frida was about 14 years old in these pics...
posted by doustna in her thread from noamgriegst. (i guess from the photographer's page)
cologne_rocks
Active Member
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2009
- Messages
- 7,114
- Reaction score
- 2
cause mum wants her daughter to be a famous model.
coco vaughn
Active Member
- Joined
- Nov 10, 2009
- Messages
- 4,472
- Reaction score
- 6
yes, it was 2 years ago, so she was 14 or 15. i think both age are too young for that kind of shots..
2 years ago? It was shot August 2009 and published Oct 2009
http://newbloodagency.com/blogs/tekla/2009/08/22/frida/
http://newbloodagency.com/blogs/tekla/2009/10/03/new-ed-for-cover/
I don't know what age that makes her, but she was definitely not 14.
http://newbloodagency.com/blogs/tekla/2009/08/22/frida/
http://newbloodagency.com/blogs/tekla/2009/10/03/new-ed-for-cover/
I don't know what age that makes her, but she was definitely not 14.
Last edited by a moderator:
cologne_rocks
Active Member
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2009
- Messages
- 7,114
- Reaction score
- 2
She was 16 back then.
Bianca who's the girl in your avi? She's striking
Bianca who's the girl in your avi? She's striking
coco vaughn
Active Member
- Joined
- Nov 10, 2009
- Messages
- 4,472
- Reaction score
- 6
then I'm sorry, they wrote in her thread, that it was shot 2 years ago....
( i guess 16 is also too young to show her boobs...her body is so unmatured.)
You really shouldn't group the mums altogether like that.
I am sure some may be like that but certainly not all.
