[rollei_list] Re: OT Mapplethorpe (was Re: Re:)
- From: "Marvin" <marvin0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:27:02 +0800
I'll second that Eric. The vast majority of models are involved in standing
with suitcases and smiles pretending to be interesting in Samsonite cases
etc.
Glamorous catwalk stuff, which I believe is being alluded to is a much
narrower band of model anyway. Which I have done myself (modelled that
is-well in university, since it was a art college with a fashion dept).
It must be noted that the reason New York or any city is teeming with models
of a different nationality is because they can get away with paying them
much, much less then local talent.
Hong Kong is teeming with Russian models who on average will accept 50% of
what a Aussie, Brit or American will accept. My closest friends here just
happen to models and boy do they complain about the situation.
Marvin.
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[mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Goldstein
Sent: 11 March 2010 06:16
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT Mapplethorpe (was Re: Re:)
Your anecdote and Russian mob money aside... for the most part, the
vast majority of models are viewed as a dime a dozen and disposable,
and the life is as far from glamorous as you can imagine. Anyone whose
whose shot models "on the way up" (most never get "up") or who knows
someone whose trying to make it knows exactly what I'm talking
about...
Eric Goldstein
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The very top models are well treated and well paid. For every one of
>> them, there are hundreds, perhaps thousands who are treated like dirt,
>> very poorly paid, and struggle with day jobs to make their dream of
>> being a model come true.
>>
>> As for speaking several languages and playing Satie, many on this list
>> qualify.
>>
>>
>> Eric Goldstein
>
>
> In Hong Kong maybe I'm sure I have not clue its a rough place maybe...
> We had fashion week a few weeks ago in NY the sidewalks and starbucks were
> filled with smiling laughing Russian 6 foot teenagers all having a ball in
> new York buying sushi and pecans in the food store with fat stacks of
> American money and making it back to get enough sleep to do the shows in
the
> tents the next morning.
>
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
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