#modeling industry

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These Models Marched the SAG-AFTRA Picket Lines. Now They’re Fighting Against AI ‘Digital Blackface’ and Working for ‘Glorified Pimps’

Models are pushing for workplace protections against racism, sexual misconduct and more in an industry that remains largely unregulated.

As Fashion Week in New York kicks off on Feb. 9, a growing chorus of hybrid model-actors are drawing attention to the woeful working conditions that models face and are calling for meaningful change. Variety spoke with eight people who have straddled both professions and who argue that the modeling world suffers from a lack of guardrails. Their grievances range from sexual misconduct to racism to an inability for models to own the rights to their own image. All are backing New York’s Fashion Workers Act, which would close a legal loophole that allows modeling agencies to act with impunity. Taking a page from last year’s WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that shut down the industry before settling in September and November, respectively, these actors-models believe that it’s time for a reckoning within the fashion industry.

[petalrosesspliff]

This picture is so art

[vodka0kcal]

just finished another photoshoot!! ive been so so so excited fot this pics to come out so i could seem them

god i love being a woman

and a model

susan lets make a partnership

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How does one even get into modeling? I’m curious

Hi!

I started modeling just being a model for my friend's photography class. I definitely think that helped alot, because she had a portfolio and showed it to people while trying to get a job.

Ontop of this, I ask some friends to take photos of me so I can bring my visual ideas to life, with the clothes I make and graphic design ect ect. Its mostly just for fun and film.

I dont model too often, and I think I want too later this year, but as of right now my studies are alot.

Its risky to choose an agency due to the fact that theres alot of fake agencies out there. You have to be careful, and if you get a gut feeling its wrong, then leave. Im not with an agency as of now, but i do have a manager! I would suggest getting a trustworthy manager. Im not an expert on getting into modeling 😓 I have alot of connections and opportunities when it comes to alot of things, I know alot of people and those people know more people! you know? its alot of networking. Especially in college.

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Blah Blah Blah AKA The Sackhoff Show: Tricia Helfer: Farmhand, Supermodel, Killer Robot and Hermit

From Katee: Tricia Helfer is one of my favorite humans and I feel so so very lucky to not only know her, but to have worked with her. You obviously know her from her work on Battlestar Galactica but she spent years before that as a model. We talk about all that, how she used to work in the nude on a farm growing up, her history with Sylvester Stallone, losing her hair on Battlestar, and how she got discovered as a kid. Tricia is one of the most practical and put together people I know and it was such a pleasure, as always, to spend some time with her. Enjoy!

[nicoleangelae]

literally not about to blame a Black woman for the beauty standards of white america, especially when she created such a ground breaking tv show that started the beginning of a new paradigm within the modeling industry. she knew what the fashion world was ready for and what it wasn’t ready for. if you look now, the modeling industry still isn’t ready for busty models, or models with an ass, or models under 5’6”, or Black models with long natural hair (that isn’t type 3 curls) in abundance. the modeling industry isn’t even ready for non ambiguous Black models, Black models of all shades, etc. this system didn’t come from this Black woman, it runs deeper than that. i’m not going to put all the blame on a Black women for preparing the contestants for what the real model world was like. a lot of people don’t understand that the early 2000’s was white centered, white skinny, blonde girl centered. i’m not about to blame a black woman while trying to navigate that horrid space. it wasn’t easy living in that time with those beauty standards. the root of the problem is not a Black woman, it’s the modeling industry itself, it’s white supremacist beauty standards itself.

also give some smoke to janice & the jays, cause they were there too.

*in my next post i talk about tyra and the tv crew’s treatment of the ladies…