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Welcome To America, Models! Tatiana Can't Wait For The Extra Competition. It Was Almost Getting Too Easy.
Today we learned New York congressman and Huma Abedin BF Anthony Weiner had sponsored a bill to amend immigration laws to make it easier for foreign models to get H1-B visas. "The market is calling for foreign girls," said someone from Trump Model Management. "From Fashion Week to our vibrant publishing industry to the many designers that call New York City home, fashion is a vital part of our economy that drives thousands of jobs," Weiner told the Daily News. And hell if we're going to let the pinko protectionist traditions that so define the fashion industry threaten our competitiveness for a moment longer! Clearly, there are just too many clothes out there, and not enough 23-inch-waisted waifs to fit into the sample sizes! Anyway, Jezebel's anonymous model columnist Tatiana is in New York for a few weeks, and she's positively thrilled for the influx of new blood, let me tell you. Wait no, let her tell you! Without further ado, Tatiana spills on an average night in the world's most fulfilling line of work. More »
Modeling Agency Will Incite Thinness If It Damn Well Chooses!
Despite recent half-assed attempts to impose healthier weight standards on the fashion industry, it seems some valiant holdouts just won't be dictated to! Australian writer Patty Huntington draws our attention to some of the truly alarming physiques on view in Elite's modeling profile - at last view, still the highlighted images on their site - making the point that "It’s difficult to fathom how anyone could look at these shots and believe they represent a terrific advertisement for the model, the agency and indeed, the fashion industry." Personally, it prompted me to reach for a donut. Subversive scare tactics, perhaps? [News.com.au]
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New Documentary Examines The Absence Of Black Models On The Fashion Runways
BET aired a documentary last week called Fashion Blackout, which explored the barriers that black models have broken, the roles they've played in the fashion industry, and why the hell more of them haven't been on the fashion runways as of late. As to that last issue, well, the models interviewed, for the most part, blamed the people casting the shows (the fashion designers and stylists), the designers blamed the agencies, and the agencies blamed the magazine editors (one rep says he has received casting instructions that specify "no black no Asian"). Unfortunately, Vogue editor Andre Leon Talley, one of the most powerful people of color in the fashion industry, had nothing to add to the "where are the black models" debate, other than to express his love of black beauty. Clip above.Related: Fashion Blackout [BET] More »
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Modeling Is Not The Road To Self-Esteem
There's a new show premiering on TV Land on June 4th called She's Got The Look, where women 35 and older compete for a modeling contract and a Self magazine spread. It's like ANTM for soccer moms! Anyway, it reminded me of Whitney's exit speech after she was crowned the first "full-figured" winner of Top Model. Whitney went on and on about how she wants to be a role model for young girls, how she wants them to look at her and think, "I can do that. I can be that. I can be on that billboard and be on that magazine, because I'm beautiful from the inside out." While I think that the prevailing media images of "beauty" are too narrow and oppressive, modeling shouldn't be a paramount goal for any child, teen, or over-35 year old. More »
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This Week Models Got Some Meat On Their Bones
- Whitney was the first "plus sized" contestant to win America's Next Top Model!
- Alexandra Michaels — a teen model who was sent home from Paris because she gained five pounds — spoke out against eating disorders in the modeling industry.
- Speaking of dressing up: Jezebel correspondent Emily Gould crashed a Stevie Nicks festival. There were wigs! And gays! And glitter!
- More good news for gays: it is now legal for them to get married in California.
- In other California legal news, Lori Drew got indicted.
- Even California girls should not wear this tacky crap from Urban Outfitters.
- Brats from My Super Sweet Sixteen get deported!
I have no words to describe the horror that is the video for the Hagyness-collaborated single "Who." Fortunately for me, Guardian fashion critic Hadley Freeman still has her wits about her as she fields a question from reader Martin Stam, who writes, "Can you please explain why the big fuss over that model Agyness Deyn? She's perfectly pretty but the excitement does seem disproportionate." RepliesFreeman: "Someone somewhere along the line decided that we need a new culture-by-way-of-fashion icon as a sort of generational figurehead... Don't get me wrong, I'm sure she's a lovely girl and, yes, a very pretty one. But with that peroxide crop and her love of DM boots and strange stretchy miniskirts, surely I'm not the only one baffled by all the adulation of this so-called "style maverick" when Roxette carved this niche with rather more aplomb almost 20 years ago? A little bit of overkill, yuhthink?" [Guardian, Fashionologie]
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Whenever I Feel Like Starving Myself, I Just Look At "1 Cup Of Oatmeal With Brown Sugar.doc"
You know how every time you get too comfortable with yourself, secure with your identity and your shortcomings, strengths flaws etc. etc., you'll suddenly out of nowhere for whatever reason find yourself plopped into a strange unfamiliar new context that challenges all you thought and believed and assumed was true? Well in modeling that place is called Paris. After a lifetime of holding as a self-evident truth that she was thin, our anonymous model Tatiana journeyed to Paris and learned that the opposite was, in fact, the case. How Tatiana learned to adjust to the harsh reality of her fat, in a very special Modelslips, after the jump. More »
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"Why Karlie Kloss And Not Me?" (And Other Pretty Little Headscratchers)
Don't get us wrong, our anonymous model Tatiana has had a busy couple weeks. (Europe! Magazine photo shoots! The private satisfaction of being anonymously "famous" on the internet!) But in a business where nothing is real (except hunger pangs) she sometimes finds herself pondering the age-old question, how IS it that some of these girls get so fucking famous? Exhibit A: Karlie Kloss (left). The young Texan is suddenly the Most Famous Person In Modeling. And in fashion, if you're not talking about how great she is, you're drunkenly wondering aloud to your friends what the fuck is so great about her. This and other pressing Modelslips questions, answered by Jezebel's most symmetrically-featured contributor, after the jump.
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Carla Bruni, French President Nicolas Sarkozy: It's Serious & Sartorial
Now that it's been confirmed that Nicole Kidman is pregnant, we're relieved that we can fully devote our energies to obsessing over whether or not former model Carla Bruni and French president Nicolas Sarkozy are really engaged or just like, totally committed to each other, but sans a wedding date. Chanel designer and resident expert on everything under the sun Karl Lagerfeld tells Women's Wear Daily:It's very 'our times.' Carla is great: chic, modern, speaks many languages, perfectly educated, beautiful. I see only quality... I loved the Chiracs, but politics are like fashion: It's about change and there has to be a first lady in a place like the Elysée Palace. Why not such a beautiful one?...[Bruni can] reinvent that look — it will be great for the image of France.But what does President Sarkozy have to say? Well, according to a press conference he held this morning, he seems to believe that his relationship with Bruni is setting a new trend, too, but one that has nothing to do with fashion: More »
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Janice Dickinson's 12 Days Of Christmas
Last year, the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency aired a Christmas special that included Janice's version of the "12 Days of Christmas." Of course, hers isn't exactly traditional, as it involves her divorces, Botox injections, fake breasts and five naked men, but it's festive just the same. Is it safe to say that this is already a camp classic?
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How Women's Television Is Just Like Sex And The City
Slate's TV columnist Troy Patterson parses the programming on the three women's television networks today, and, reading Patterson's descriptions of each lady network, I had to wonder: could the networks be categorized using the ultimate post-modern archetypes, Sex and the City characters? It is the Most Important Show of Our Time, after all. The answer I came up with?:Of course they can.
With its rude, slutty and unapologetic programming, Oxygen is clearly Samantha. Strippers fellating beer bottles, plastic surgery advocating Janice Dickinson and her modeling agency, and re-runs of Absolutely Fabulous just scream Samantha with their combination of glitter, foul mouths and trash. (Remember when Carrie caught Samantha blowing the UPS guy? Total Oxygen material.)
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Scientist: Screening Models For Anorexia "Unnecessary"
Canada's Montreal Fashion Week just ended, and models were not allowed to walk the runway if they were too thin. But on LiveScience, Benjamin Radford writes that testing fashion models to see if they have an eating disorder or are anorexic is "an unnecessary, cosmetic fix." Radford notes that there is no way to physically "screen" models for anorexia — since it's a psychological disorder, the women would have to be asked a series of questions, which, argues Radford, "like drug use or any other topic the model may not want to admit to—could be easily evaded." And just figuring out if the models are heating healthily may not work, either. As he puts it:While thinness is often associated with malnutrition, many thin (even anorexic) people are properly nourished—and even obese people can be malnourished. Not only is the health screening impractical, but in America, such measures might be illegal. An employer can't fire someone from a job or discriminate against that person because he or she has a disease.True, but then we read this: More »
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Modeling Industry Still Loves It Some Leggy White Blondes
Black models are not just struggling in the United States — they're not getting any work in the UK, either. A summit to discuss the culture of "blatant" racism in the modeling industry will take place in London next year, reports The Independent. Dee Doocey, a former managing director of an international fashion company, is organizing the meeting. "I can't remember being sent a model who wasn't white," says Doocey. "I don't know if it's racism, or just the fashion industry languishing in the doldrums, but it needs to change. Agencies only seem interested in leggy white blonde girls." More »
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Forbes: Models Are Starving, Financially Fucked & Computer Analyzed
Kiri Blakely wrote a story for Forbes titled "How To Be A Supermodel." Yeah, Forbes. The article is actually about the many steps in the trajectory from regular girl to famous model: Contests, contracts, go-sees, fashion shows, cosmetics campaigns. Blakely spent time with Edythe Hughes, 17, who was discovered in a Columbus, Ohio mall, and recently moved to New York. The weird finances of the business for new model Hughes are put on the table:Hughes is advanced $150 a week for expenses and probably won't see much more than that. But she doesn't mind: "Before this, I was working as a librarian, making $8 an hour." Last season, Hughes worked as an "exclusive" model for Calvin Klein and banked $9,500 for one show (and 15 hours' prep time). Of that, she thinks she netted about $5,000, but she isn't sure.More »
