Picture Me: A Model's Diary (Documentary Film)

[khyrk]

^wow that's sad

 

[thunderstorm]

^ You will never succeed if you never try. Maybe I'm crazy but I still believe that not everything (and not everybody) sells.

Anyway, I'm not the one who should teach the other people or tell them what they should do. We are all responsible for what we do... or what we do not.

 

[foreverandnone]

yeah its a pretty scary industry.

I have a friend who had an incident with a make up artist....he was kind of..pervy.

 

[khyrk]

^ oh what happened?

 

[foreverandnone]

well i dont like to talk about it too much but he made some unwanted advances after a shoot when she was left alone with him to help her take off the make up...

It just baffles me people think they have the right to do that and think they can get away with it...

Sometimes, you can get in really awkward situations.

 

[Bamhutt]

Karen Mulder made some accusations while she was a top model, and look what happened to her. Thrown in the looney bin by the agent she was accusing. It all sounds a bit far fetched, except the BBC taped the same agent bragging about his plans to assault teen models in a contest.

http://jezebel.com/5304706/modeling-and-the-tragedy-of-karen-mulder

The model is far easier to replace than photographer, bookers and certainly clients. The rich and powerful will always prevail.

There is an interesting case in L.A. right now by an actress suing her agent and agency. She says she was "hip pocketed", which she claims is a common practice where pretty girls are accepted by agent who don't really try to get them jobs, just pass them around to their friends (she claims she was raped).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/20/claire-robinson-model-and_n_206031.html

It would be extremely difficult for her to win this suit against the agency's lawyers, so I would only think that she is doing this to warn other girls.

Interesting reads, thanks

Was this rumoured to be Cameron Russel or another model?:

The longer we keep up our charade of disbelief, the less the industry will change. One of the most chilling scenes in Sara Ziff's documentary, Picture Me, didn't make the final cut. A model was talking about a photo shoot that took place she was 16, with what Ziff has described as "a very, very famous photographer, probably one of the world's top names." When the girl left the studio to go to the bathroom between shots, the photographer cornered her in the hall. Then he started touching her dress. "But you're used to this," Ziff reported he said. "People touch you all the time. Your collar, or your breasts. It's not strange to be handled like that." Then the world-famous photographer put his hand to her crotch and forced his fingers into her vagina. The teenager, who had never even kissed anyone before, just froze and waited for the man to walk away. They finished the shoot, and she never told anyone. The day before the New York premiere, she begged for the scene to be cut.

 

[turnofflights]

don't bite the hand that feeds you...

 

[CharlottefromCA]

unless its trying to molest/r*pe you.. then I think you should bite..

 

[Empress Merel]

I know a famous Dutch model of the older generation, I think she must be in het late twenties, said that once a photographer asked her how much it cost to have sex with her. She just answered he couldn't afford her.

So annoying when you can't think of the proper name.

Will the documentary be showed on internet?

 

[turnofflights]

unless its trying to molest/r*pe you.. then I think you should bite..

i agree too on those conditions...

 

[Fontenrose]

A fit model who worked at Guess? for three years is suing the company for sexual harassment. She alleges that founder Paul Marciano made unwanted sexual advances, and cut her work hours after she resisted. [WWD, Jezebel]

 

[Yupes]

The documentary is already encouraging models to bite the hand that feeds them

 

[genevica]

^
Your comment reminds me of something that I read in a reviews of this film saying that Sara Ziff was "spitting in the face" of the industry that got her where she is now.
Perhaps not exactly those words, but that sort of tone...

 

[foreverandnone]

Bite the hand that feeds them?
This isnt a case of snobby models not getting their way this is concerning sexual harassment which, hello, is ILLEGAL and those who infringe upong the rights of others have consequences to face.



bite the hand that feeds..god what a thing to say

 

[Decalion]

Isn't it more like biting the hand that feeds and pimp-slaps you?

 

[foreverandnone]

I don't understand what you are implying.

 

[model_mom]

It's very simple ....if you as a 'well known' model decide to be a whistle blower on all the sleeze that is everywhere in the fashion industry,photographers,clients and agents included I can promise you that you will be promptly blacklisted and never be heard from again....you might have your moment in the sun where everyone praises you for standing up to the big bad wolf, but then you will soon be history and shipped back to whatever country or small town you came from.

....and even if you are not one of the better known models and you try to let your trusted agent know that someone is 'messing with you',they will tell you to 'go along with it' because it's all harmless fun.....

 

[foreverandnone]

Oh so its supposed to be ignored?
How would you feel if your daughter was taken advantage of? This is sick how people are reacting to this.

All of the people who feel like (potential) r*pe and sexual harrassement inside the industry should be tolerated are simply ignorant...and insane.

Good Lord people what if that was your daughter..or your son!?

 

[meeks]

^ Who are you referring to? I don't think modelmom is stating all of those negative things as an endorsement of what should happen to models if they speak out, but what wrongly happens to those that do.

 

[foreverandnone]

She needs to tell us what her statement meant. It would have been wise in the first place.
To me it looked like an excuse not to speak up