Today's Daily Quota is a powerful one for those readers that idolize the modelling industry, or models in general. Young ladies, I'm looking at you.
Cameron Russell is an American fashion model with 10 years experience in the industry - a staggering statistic, given her supple age of 25. In a recent TEDx MidAtlantic talk, she discusses the origins of her modelling, and gets quite personal in the process.
Cameron gives brief examples of the real process of a fashion shoot, she gives recent statistics on racial profiling in the industry and she discloses a rarity for her audiences - less-than-flattering photos without the professional touch-ups.
In fact, both the image below was taken on the same day, when she was only a few years into puberty.
Normally, I wouldn't be too swept away but such a talk.
However, it's hard not to respect her for her honesty, her lack of shock value, her epiphanies and the acknowledgement that she would not be able to say such things in a few years time. She describes a modelling career as 'winning the genetic lotto', and she feels almost ashamed for having done so;
"But it was most difficult to unpack a legacy of gender and racial oppression, when I am one of the biggest beneficiaries"
If you want more, she had responded to this blunt, but unsurprising TEDx talk in the most recent issue of Vogue Australia.
The link to the talk itself is below. If it's not one of the most honest, informative 10 minutes of your day, you're doing something right.
READ IT HERE
Note: I did have some problems viewing the embedded video (download worked), so here is an alternative link for those of you that have the same trouble.
Cameron Russell is an American fashion model with 10 years experience in the industry - a staggering statistic, given her supple age of 25. In a recent TEDx MidAtlantic talk, she discusses the origins of her modelling, and gets quite personal in the process.
Cameron gives brief examples of the real process of a fashion shoot, she gives recent statistics on racial profiling in the industry and she discloses a rarity for her audiences - less-than-flattering photos without the professional touch-ups.
In fact, both the image below was taken on the same day, when she was only a few years into puberty.
However, it's hard not to respect her for her honesty, her lack of shock value, her epiphanies and the acknowledgement that she would not be able to say such things in a few years time. She describes a modelling career as 'winning the genetic lotto', and she feels almost ashamed for having done so;
"But it was most difficult to unpack a legacy of gender and racial oppression, when I am one of the biggest beneficiaries"If you want more, she had responded to this blunt, but unsurprising TEDx talk in the most recent issue of Vogue Australia.
The link to the talk itself is below. If it's not one of the most honest, informative 10 minutes of your day, you're doing something right.
READ IT HERE
Note: I did have some problems viewing the embedded video (download worked), so here is an alternative link for those of you that have the same trouble.
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