Becoming a fashion model

It should seem easy to be a fashion model. All they have to do is stand there, look pretty and smile, and everyone loves them for it, and they adorn themselves in the best fashions. Not to mention, they are paid millions of dollars in sponsorship deals and can travel around the world for both work and pleasure. The glamorous aspects of the job are undoubtedly exciting, however being a fashion model is not as easy or lacking in lifestyle as it seems.

First of all, before any model is known, it must be signed by a model agency. Model agencies are larger companies that represent fashion models for working in the industry. They often handle the business side of fashion design, like contracts, billing jobs, and reservations. An agency can bring a model to fame with its vast connections in the industry. First of all, one of the most difficult parts is signing the agency. In order to even qualify, female models must measure between 5'6 "and 6'0" with a body weight "proportional to their height." In other words, the perspective models must be extremely thin. Since hundreds and thousands of girls audition for modeling jobs, a successful model must have something, a special quality that makes her stand out from the hordes of aspiring Canadian Vogue Magazine.

Once you are a signed working model, you must constantly look for ways to come to light. One of the biggest events in the world of modeling and fashion design is Fashion Week. A Fashion Week is a series of one-week fashion shows featuring new collections from several different designers. Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York City is one of the most famous, along with Paris and Milan, the fashion capitals of the world. Exposure on a catwalk during fashion week can lead to lucrative high-class contracts for models. Each fashion week often showcases collections from over a hundred designers, with each designer showcasing a spring and fall collection, but compared to the number of models competing for locations on these runways, the competition is still fierce!

The next step towards supermodel stardom is to get a place as the face of a prestigious fashion campaign. Fashion campaigns for private designers can earn models a considerable amount of money, as well as enough exposure to keep them working constantly for a long time. One of the most popular examples of this is the fragrance campaign, and fashion design houses like Gucci, Valentino, and Chanel run extremely high-class ads for their fragrance products, featuring only the most elite models.