Sociologist Ashley Mears, author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model, discusses the nature of the fashion labor market with Karen Sternheimer.
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Wow, I would have never looked at it in that light. I feel sorry for the lower-class models. Hopefully, they will get the opportunity to rise in the ranks.
Posted by: Liter8media | October 05, 2011 at 01:21 PM
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Posted by: skjult kamera | October 13, 2011 at 07:05 AM
I didn't realize that models don't have a lot of power and only has success if so many people look at them in that way. I didn't realize that their jobs are not stable as well.
Posted by: Bailey | October 16, 2011 at 03:40 PM
Exactly the same as young budding musicians in the music industry. The Arts are a hard thing to grasp for a normal person that's why to do it you have to have an extreme passion for it and not just money or fame. Great post :)
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Posted by: Amber | December 06, 2011 at 12:35 PM
True. Many people do look @ models as objects. I was at a fashion show last year where the presented the latest, most fashionable mini dresses in new york - the models were objects, designed to present the dresses, not the other way around. I believe if the model is not the subject, then @ work, it sure is an object, or at least a medium.
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