Model Behavior

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A lot of people think that modeling is a parade of perfect women in perfect clothing. They open a magazine and see the so called “physical ideal” in a five thousand dollar dress laying casually on a bed of pine needles looking as absurdly comfortable as if they were curled up on the couch in a snuggie. If you look at this image and think the point is “this woman is comfortable in any situation, that is how cool and collected she is in her Dior” your are seeing it all wrong.

Modeling is all about celebrating the imperfections and differences in people. Tyra Banks, while absolutely stunning, makes jokes about her own obviously gigantic “five”head, and the incredibly famous Lauren Hutton has been banking on her front teeth gap (a trait tons of women get fixed every day) for decades. Some of the most successful models I have met in my career are bug eyed, awkward, and in no way fit the description of the typical “American Beauty”. Do you think you would ever see the heroin chic Kate Moss in a Victoria Secret catalogue? Would you ever compare Mariacarla Boscono to the girls in playboy? These are women you would perhaps never give a second look at on the street. Their sexuality is subtle and dark, their true beauty only fully shines through in precise lighting and proper makeup, but it’s there, lurking, and given the proper chance, it can explode off the pages of an Italian Vogue and make you positively yearn for every scrap of cloth in the picture, even if it is a ten thousand dollar bathing suit.

There is a reason these women are paid thousands of dollars to appear in these clothes, THEY SELL THEM, and they do it well! These women have imperfections, just like us, just like everyone does. They don’t hide from them, they don’t fix them, they use it.

I challenge you the next time you flip through a fashion magazine, to search the ads looking for the imperfections, note how the photographers tweak the lighting and position to transform something off and bizarre into something interesting and fantastic. Sometimes you’ll look at a picture and something draws you into it…but you can’t quite put your finger on it. keep looking until you figure it out. That thing you can’t quite identify, is probably the awkward angle at which the model holds her knobby knees, or the freakishly huge hands with which she holds the perfume bottle, for it is the imperfections that make us beautiful, wonderfully strange, and different from one another. Don’t hide them, figure out how to flaunt them!

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