DARUSHIMO |"You Know, Models Are In, Like, The Five Percent Of People Who Look Like Models"

"You Know, Models Are In, Like, The Five Percent Of People Who Look Like Models"

Okay, but the money’s pretty awesome, right?

I fucking wish! I’m in this for the travel and the experience. I grew up poring over mags like The Face and Nylon at the library; how could I not be thrilled to meet designers, and see their collections months before the public? The jobs you hear about are the hundred-grand photo campaigns for Victoria’s Secret or million-dollar commercial shoot for a skin care line in Japan. But you can spend all day posing for one half-page photo in American Vogue and wind up, after agency commission, with fifty bucks. (Commission varies by city, from 20% in New York to 70% in Paris.) Fashion shows generally pay a handful of runway stars exorbitant rates, and give the rest of the workaday model pack a flat fee somewhere between $300 and $1,000. Plenty of the smaller shows will pay $100 plus some clothes. Probably the biggest brand to pay in trade is Alice + Olivia, which gives $500 worth of clothes to each of its models. Which is all well and good until you have to pay the heating bill.

Article by Jenna. See her post “I Am the Anonymous Model” for more great peaks into her life as a model. (via @Blythest)