What do catwalk models

allanb49

think of when walking down it?
We where watching that Tyra Banks ****e there, and just the blank expressions on their faces we started wondering what the hell could they be thinking about.

So, what you guys think is going through there minds?

Michellenman

Models walking and thinking at the same time? Surely not...

chin_grin

WoollyRedHat

Perhaps "I hope I look good"

Who knows? Models don't automatically become fully confident when they decide to catwalk/go into fashion

That and I'm sure, staying focused on not falling over in such high heels!

GirlInterrupted

allanb49 wrote: »

think of when walking down it?
We where watching that Tyra Banks ****e there, and just the blank expressions on their faces we started wondering what the hell could they be thinking about.

So, what you guys think is going through there minds?

I would imagine something along the lines of
''Don't fall over'',
''Don't trip up'', and
''How ridiculous do I look in this backless, frontless, sideless dress?''.

shenanigans1982

Jade Goody....sure its what everyone is thinking about bless her.:rolleyes:

TheZohanS

Probably the same as all girls;

"does my bum look big in this?"

Abi

"Id kill for a Big Mac meal".

towel401

Michellenman wrote: »

Models walking and thinking at the same time? Surely not...

if they had to think at the same time they'd walk too slow

jiltloop

They're probably thinking of money they're getting paid for walking those few steps.

Kiera

I'm starving.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Does my ass look big in this?

tribulus

"I wish I was allowed have an arse and tits, guys like A cups right?"

orestes

"Oh my god, this is like, such a big fashion show, I mean, like, there's soooooo many famous people here, maybe if I sleep with a movie director he will put me in one of his movies, that would be soooooo awesome! Oh my god, did I throw up after I ate that salad? Oh no, that's like, 12 calories! I'm gonna get sooooo fat! That's it, I'm not eating again until 2011, then I'll look beautiful, you gotta be thin to win! And instead of food I'll just smoke more and do more coke, that will keep me thin. I'm sooooo glad I can be such a good role model to little girls, without people like me how would they know that you aren't important unless you're thin and everyone tells you how pretty you are?!"



I fucking hate models

liah

They think?

Saibh

"Must remember to put one foot forward and then... what am I suppose to do again?"

mikedragon32

"I wish I was an ambiturner"

T-K-O

me

aoibhebree

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

That and I'm sure, staying focused on not falling over in such high heels!

Not always succeeding ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-cqUj99zMI

Busi_Girl08

"Do what you've been trained to do.....and

KILL THE PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA!!!!!!!

Acacia

orestes wrote: »

"Oh my god, this is like, such a big fashion show, I mean, like, there's soooooo many famous people here, maybe if I sleep with a movie director he will put me in one of his movies, that would be soooooo awesome! Oh my god, did I throw up after I ate that salad? Oh no, that's like, 12 calories! I'm gonna get sooooo fat! That's it, I'm not eating again until 2011, then I'll look beautiful, you gotta be thin to win! And instead of food I'll just smoke more and do more coke, that will keep me thin. I'm sooooo glad I can be such a good role model to little girls, without people like me how would they know that you aren't important unless you're thin and everyone tells you how pretty you are?!"



I fucking hate models

Not all models are stupid/thin/airheads. Tyra Banks is a case in point- she has her own tv shows as well as a modelling career, and she tries to highlight that you don't have to be a size zero to succeed in modeling (or to get by in life, generally.) I don't think she's a bad role model, actually. She's a good business woman who worked her way up from humble beginnings. Well, she's not a Nobel prize winner, but she's better than reality tv stars and WAGs! :pac:

Modelling is a lot harder than it looks. I'd imagine the models have several things on their mind when they're on the catwalk- trying to look confident, trying to sell the clothes, they also have to be aware that a designer's career may depend on how they carry themselves on the run way. It's easy to say ''oh, they're just silly twigs prancing around thinking they're great" but I say you shouldn't judge a job as easy or the people doing it as stupid until you've done it yourself.

I also disagree with the idea that it presents a certain kind of beauty to aspire to- most models, particularly in high fashion, are in fact very 'distinctive'- looking. It is actually more advantageous to have an individual look than a conventional one. For example, Alex Wek may not be considered a conventional beaty but she is a very succesful model. Pic--->
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/1AlekWekYOU_468x615.jpg



Imo, glamour models / page 3 girls actually present a more disturbing image of what beauty/sexuality is.

Of course, like most entertainment industries, I do think models are over-paid.

Fajitas!

orestes wrote: »

"Oh my god, this is like, such a big fashion show, I mean, like, there's soooooo many famous people here, maybe if I sleep with a movie director he will put me in one of his movies, that would be soooooo awesome! Oh my god, did I throw up after I ate that salad? Oh no, that's like, 12 calories! I'm gonna get sooooo fat! That's it, I'm not eating again until 2011, then I'll look beautiful, you gotta be thin to win! And instead of food I'll just smoke more and do more coke, that will keep me thin. I'm sooooo glad I can be such a good role model to little girls, without people like me how would they know that you aren't important unless you're thin and everyone tells you how pretty you are?!"



I fucking hate models

Lol. From the sound of that, I highly doubt you've met many models, or indeed, catwalk/fashion models. Saying you hate models may aswell be saying you hate poor people. Or pretty much any specific employment. Don't bother.

Acacia wrote: »

Not all models are stupid/thin/airheads. Tyra Banks is a case in point- she has her own tv shows as well as a modelling career, and she tries to highlight that you don't have to be a size zero to succeed in modeling (or to get by in life, generally.) I don't think she's a bad role model, actually. She's a good business woman who worked her way up from humble beginnings. Well, she's not a Nobel prize winner, but she's better than reality tv stars and WAGs! :pac:

Modelling is a lot harder than it looks. I'd imagine the models have several things on their mind when they're on the catwalk- trying to look confident, trying to sell the clothes, they also have to be aware that a designer's career may depend on how they carry themselves on the run way. It's easy to say ''oh, they're just silly twigs prancing around thinking they're great" but I say you shouldn't judge a job as easy or the people doing it as stupid until you've done it yourself.

I also disagree with the idea that it presents a certain kind of beauty to aspire to- most models, particularly in high fashion, are in fact very 'distinctive'- looking. It is actually more advantageous to have an individual look than a conventional one. For example, Alex Wek may not be considered a conventional beaty but she is a very succesful model. Pic--->
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/1AlekWekYOU_468x615.jpg



Imo, glamour models / page 3 girls actually present a more disturbing image of what beauty/sexuality is.

Of course, like most entertainment industries, I do think models are over-paid.

+1 to your thinking.

PurpleBerry

Acacia wrote: »

For example, Alex Wek may not be considered a conventional beaty but she is a very succesful model. Pic--->
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/1AlekWekYOU_468x615.jpg

I'm sorry but why would the woman in the above link not be considered a conventional beauty? She has strong, distinct features, seems to be very tall and has long, slender hands. She looked very model-like to me.

Ciaran500

chin_grin wrote: »

Sweet, consolevania is back.

Call Me Jimmy

"Right! I wonder why it's called a cat-walk...
Left! shouldn't it be like model-walk?
Right! hmm... strange things, words, aren't they?
Right! **** LEFT!! Uh oh, down I go!"

Acacia

Neesa wrote: »

I'm sorry but why would the woman in the above link not be considered a conventional beauty? She has strong, distinct features, seems to be very tall and has long, slender hands. She looked very model-like to me.

I think she is beautiful, just not in the conventional way, imo. The term conventional beauty to me implies somebody like Kate Hudson or Anne Hathaway- a girl who is pretty in a girl-next-door kind of way. Whereas Alex is quite slender, with short hair, etc. I do agree she is very model-like, but perhaps not the 'classical beauty'. well, that's just my opinion.:) I chose her because I've asked people before if they thought she was 'hot' and they said "no, but she is 'model-hot'!"

Alex is also a good role model- she was a Sudanese refugee. Definitely not an airhead who sleeps with people to become famous.

spinandscribble

allanb49 wrote: »

think of when walking down it?
We where watching that Tyra Banks ****e there, and just the blank expressions on their faces we started wondering what the hell could they be thinking about.

So, what you guys think is going through there minds?

if its Tyra then probably "i'm so fierce!!!! *wags finger crazy like*

BroomBurner

spinandscribble wrote: »

if its Tyra then probably "i'm so fierce!!!! *wags finger crazy like*

Or "smile with my eyes, smile with my eyes, smile with my eyes"

SoWatchaWant

Fajitas! wrote: »

Lol. From the sound of that, I highly doubt you've met many models, or indeed, catwalk/fashion models. Saying you hate models may aswell be saying you hate poor people. Or pretty much any specific employment. Don't bother.



+1 to your thinking.

Ah now, it's After Hours. Orestes has a valid point, size zero models who snort coke are stupid. We all know there are exceptions, no doubt there are nice models out there, but what's the harm in poking fun at a stereotype eh;)

Acacia

SoWatchaWant wrote: »

Ah now, it's After Hours. Orestes has a valid point, size zero models who snort coke are stupid. We all know there are exceptions, no doubt there are nice models out there, but what's the harm in poking fun at a stereotype eh;)

The problem is assuming that the nice models are the 'exception', rather than the rule. Modeling is about more than Kate Moss and her dubious activities.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with making fun of a stereotype but using it to say "I f*cking hate models'' is a bit unfair , imo.

BroomBurner

Acacia wrote: »

The problem is assuming that the nice models are the 'exception', rather than the rule. Modeling is about more than Kate Moss and her dubious activities.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with making fun of a stereotype but using it to say "I f*cking hate models'' is a bit unfair , imo.

Everyone is entitled to blindly hate someone

Acacia

BroomBurner wrote: »

Everyone is entitled to blindly hate someone

Of course, AH wouldn't be much fun without the blind hatred based on stereotypes! :pac::P

Wibbs

Acacia wrote: »

Not all models are stupid/thin/airheads. Tyra Banks is a case in point- she has her own tv shows as well as a modelling career, and she tries to highlight that you don't have to be a size zero to succeed in modeling (or to get by in life, generally.) I don't think she's a bad role model, actually. She's a good business woman who worked her way up from humble beginnings. Well, she's not a Nobel prize winner, but she's better than reality tv stars and WAGs! :pac:

Modelling is a lot harder than it looks. I'd imagine the models have several things on their mind when they're on the catwalk- trying to look confident, trying to sell the clothes, they also have to be aware that a designer's career may depend on how they carry themselves on the run way. It's easy to say ''oh, they're just silly twigs prancing around thinking they're great" but I say you shouldn't judge a job as easy or the people doing it as stupid until you've done it yourself.

I also disagree with the idea that it presents a certain kind of beauty to aspire to- most models, particularly in high fashion, are in fact very 'distinctive'- looking. It is actually more advantageous to have an individual look than a conventional one. For example, Alex Wek may not be considered a conventional beaty but she is a very succesful model. Pic--->
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/1AlekWekYOU_468x615.jpg



Imo, glamour models / page 3 girls actually present a more disturbing image of what beauty/sexuality is.

Of course, like most entertainment industries, I do think models are over-paid.

+1

I think in ireland when we think of models we all too often think of D4 katy french PR wannabees, not women who work it as a job, like any other. It is work and it can be heavy going emotionally for what are generally very young women. There's few blokes I know of 16 that could fly off to paris or milan under their own steam, going to castings, standing around for hours, being poked, prodded and judged entirely on their looks at a vulnerable enough time in their lives. I'm surprised how few seem to go off the deep end tbh. Its like most "glamourous" jobs, it looks that way from the outside or if you did it for a day, but doing it for years or as a job there's some slog involved.

As for their looks, a lot of the fashion model types you would pass in the street, maybe noting their height. The era of the supermodel where they had that mixture of girl next door sexiness seems to be much less now.

Fajitas!

It's funny though. Making a living from looking fantastic is one of the hardest things one can do, nevermind the intelligence to make the right choices, best business decisions, etc etc.

Unfortunately, most people here seem to think models are fake tanned stereotypes like Wibbs describes. They wouldn't last pissing time.

There's few blokes I know of 16 that could fly off to paris or milan under their own steam, going to castings, standing around for hours, being poked, prodded and judged entirely on their looks at a vulnerable enough time in their lives. I'm surprised how few seem to go off the deep end tbh. Its like most "glamourous" jobs, it looks that way from the outside or if you did it for a day, but doing it for years or as a job there's some slog involved.

Big time.

Dragan

Spot on Al,

I've done photoshoots and they were not ****ing easy, far from it. The end result of a picture will often be hotly contested for credit but the simple fact of it is that a fantastic picture gets produced when both the model(s) and the photographer work extrememly well together.

It's not as easy as sitting around all day and then standing there for a few minutes, or walking down a cat walk. There can be a lot of weight on you at a shoot, depending on what you are doing. My stuff was all character driven, so to get the photographer the shots they wanted i had to BE that person/character for the guts of about 7 hours minimum. That **** ain't easy.

By day i do Propensity Modelling and Statistical Analysis. I can honestly say i have been far more mentally drained after a shoot that i ever was after work.

I also know quite a few proper models. People who make their living from it and i am not sure it is something i would like to do myself. It's tough work and as this thread shows you have endless people lining up to take shots at you.

xzanti

"I can't feel my nose"

Princessa

Eating is Cheating.

galah

'breathe in'
'breathe out'

'breathe in'
...

Turd Ferguson

So the Laurent series of a complex function f(z) is a representation of that function as a power series which includes terms of negative degree and may be used to express complex functions in cases where a Taylor series expansion cannot be applied...it all makes sense now.

Latchy

Doesn't make any sense to me at all .

I recently spent an afternoon in the Trafford Centre Manchester and watching the models strut their stuff on the catwalk, was very relaxing indeed .

xzanti

Princessa wrote: »

Eating is Cheating.

Or 'nothing tastes as good as thin feels'

Pace2008

Fajitas! wrote: »

Lol. From the sound of that, I highly doubt you've met many models, or indeed, catwalk/fashion models. Saying you hate models may aswell be saying you hate poor people. Or pretty much any specific employment. Don't bother.

They're some really horrible comparisons there.

Not many people know any models. Their main exposure to them comes from programs like America's Next Top Model where the girls generally come across as vaucous, pretentious bitches, so by extension they (probably unfairly) assume that all models are like this.

Pace2008

Fajitas! wrote: »

Lol. From the sound of that, I highly doubt you've met many models, or indeed, catwalk/fashion models. Saying you hate models may aswell be saying you hate poor people. Or pretty much any specific employment. Don't bother.

Those are some really awful comparisons there.

Most people don't know any models. Their main exposure to them comes from programs like America's Next Top Model, where the girls generally come across as affected, vaucous bitches. By extension they (probably unfairly) assume that all models are like this.

stovelid

allanb49 wrote: »

So, what you guys think is going through there minds?

Me.

Turd Ferguson

xzanti wrote: »

Or 'nothing tastes as good as thin feels'

I'm gonna put that on a t-shirt and give it to my morbidly obese diabetic cousin for her birthday.

Fajitas!

Pace2008 wrote: »

They're some really horrible comparisons there.

Pace2008 wrote: »

Those are some really awful comparisons there.

Which is it? :pac:

Most people don't know any models. Their main exposure to them comes from programs like America's Next Top Model, where the girls generally come across as affected, vaucous bitches. By extension they (probably unfairly) assume that all models are like this.

I think I've watched about 3 minutes of America's Top Model... I'll make another horrible comparison though - It's about as close to reality as Lost is. They're playing up for the camera, they're selected for clashing personalities which will ensure more air time, because, at the end of the day, it's a TV show - Not even a 'reality' TV show.

Models with attitudes you describe either don't go far at all, because people don't want to work with them, or, on the flipside, are so successful they don't need to 'play nice' anymore. In which case, if they can still make a living from it, go for it.

You'll come across people like that in every and any profession, truth be told.

Pace2008

Fajitas! wrote: »

Which is it? :pac:

F*ucking database errors.

I think I've watched about 3 minutes of America's Top Model... I'll make another horrible comparison though - It's about as close to reality as Lost is. They're playing up for the camera, they're selected for clashing personalities which will ensure more air time, because, at the end of the day, it's a TV show - Not even a 'reality' TV show.

Models with attitudes you describe either don't go far at all, because people don't want to work with them, or, on the flipside, are so successful they don't need to 'play nice' anymore. In which case, if they can still make a living from it, go for it.

You'll come across people like that in every and any profession, truth be told.

EDIT: Just looking at this again: We live in a nation where people take Joe Duffy's word to be the gospel truth. Most people are incapable of - or just can't be arsed to employ - critical thinking. My point wasn't that the majority of models are bad people, it was that the modelling indsustry is portrayed in a largely negative light by the media, and this will natuarally affect peoples' views on the topic.

In any case, models are certainly not the only ones on the end of gross generalisations and overall hate.

Gummy Panda

I say models may be thinking the following on the catwalk

"I really hope i don't fall down and the picture is printed into some rag that brazilian girls give out in Ireland. Then someone posts about it on a forum saying i was wearing no knickers and people could see my vag, leading to people demanding PICS OR GTFO until someone posts a link to the online version. Which in the end proves it wasn't my vag but probably a bad shoot of knee while i tried to get up..."

:pac: