Can a Bad Instagram Feed Hurt a Model\u2019s Career? Two Top Agents Break it Down<\/p>\n
A little less clear is how key Instagram is to the success of models who are less commercial, less headline-drawing, less voluptuous. Do followers matter? How involved are agencies in models\u2019 feeds? Is keeping pace with the shameless \u2018sexy\u2019 nature of the app important?
\nTo get some answers, we called on two experts from Wilhelmina Models\u2014Jorge Urena, an agent and booker in high-fashion New York, and Betsy Shrader, also an agent and booker in more commercial L.A.\u2014to explain how and if social media apps like Instagram can make or break a model\u2019s career.
\nThe Extraordinary Photos of a Woman Who Returned to Modelling After Losing Her Jaw to Cancer<\/p>\n
Our Beauty Editor Julia Stone worked on this powerful story for VICE about Elizaveta Bulokhova’s struggle against cancer.<\/p>\n
Elizaveta Bulokhova studied to become a law clerk, but left Toronto for Hong Kong soon after graduating from Humber College, thusly beginning a seven-year career as a fashion model that saw her live and travel around the world.
\nBut in May 2014, 24-year-old Bulokhova and her boyfriend, Roman Troubetskoi, were in Amsterdam enjoying some much needed, yet seldom spent, time together\u2014during which, they conceived their son, Valentin. During that time, however, the right side of her jaw began to swell. Read more >
\nNaomi Campbell refuses to quit modeling until fashion diversifies<\/p>\n
Campbell, 45, discusses the fashion industry’s ignorance toward using models of color, in a new video interview series called Subjective, which traces the history of contemporary fashion photography. She feels it’s her duty to fight for equal representation.<\/p>\n
Campbell notes that in all 2014 runway shows only 6.8% of models were of color. She believes it is her and other seasoned models\u2019 responsibility to talk about this lack of diversity.
\n\u201cWe have nothing to lose now. But the babies, we don\u2019t want them to speak … So let us do the talking,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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