If she is a model and you know her name or you recognize her face, she is an «editorial fashion model.»\u00a0 Seems simple enough, but it isn’t.<\/p>\n
«Editorial fashion models» work in New York City (in this country) for the simple reason that very, very little editorial fashion work is booked out of anywhere else.\u00a0 There are exceptions, of course:\u00a0 Miami in winter (but often using New York models), and sometimes Los Angeles or Chicago, but these are just that:\u00a0 exceptions.\u00a0 If you want to be a fashion model, you go to New York.\u00a0 There are lots of opportunities abroad as well (Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo . . .), but only one real one in the US.<\/p>\n
For women, if you want to be seen on the cover of a national fashion magazine, to sign a lucrative national ad contract, to become a «supermodel», or even to be a «fashion model», you need the following when you start:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Be between 15-19 years old.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 Be between 5’9″ and 6′ tall.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 Be thin.\u00a0 Really, really thin.\u00a0 Something like 105-115 pounds, except for Plus models, who can be dress sizes 10-20 or so, depending on the market.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 Don’t have especially large breasts (34C is generally the upper bound of acceptable), lots of stretch marks, tattoos, piercings or highly tanned skin.\u00a0 Dark skin is fine, lots of tan is not fine.<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 Be beautiful.\u00a0 Not necessarily pretty, but beautiful.\u00a0 An interesting, beautiful face is at least as good for a fashion model as is an «all American» look.<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0 Have the right personality for it:\u00a0 a strong commitment to modeling (not just an interest in it), an ability to take rejection (something most beautiful girls aren’t good at), a thick skin, not a lot of modesty (nobody cares what you don’t want someone to see, we have a fashion show to put on . . .) and a lot of self confidence.<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0 Be willing to relocate to a major market, with New York City strongly preferred.<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0 Be willing to travel to strange locations with no friends there to support you, little money, little help, lots of opportunity for both good and bad things to happen to you.<\/p>\n
If you have all of that, you are a very, very rare person, and you have one chance in a hundred of becoming an editorial fashion model.\u00a0 No more than that.\u00a0 If you are anything else, you need to think about some other kind of modeling.<\/p>\n
Requirements for men are a little less stringentand have been changing in recent years. Depending on the market city, men need to be 5’11» (6′ strongly preferred) to 6’2″ (in some cities, 6’3″) tall. The traditional male model is slim: size 40 jacket, 30-32 waist. However, in the last few years there has been a strong movement in Europe, now reflected in the major American markets, for much slimmer men. While in smaller cities, the traditional male model can still be successful, in New York especially, jacket sizes of 36 to 38 are now generally preferred by many agencies, with waists proportionately smaller as well. Men can be older to start. Age 18-25 is fine.<\/p>\n
Editorial fashion jobs are booked almost exclusively through «editorial fashion agencies» — and those hardly exist outside New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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