What About Male Models???

Being a model is a very interesting and challenging career. Modeling for a man is different than for female models. It can be even more interesting, exciting and the perfect way to acquire fame and popularity.
But What Exactly is a Male Model?
A Male model is a man with certain characteristics, who promotes clothing for a company or fashion industry by showing their muscular and amazing bodies. There are different types of modeling for men; fashion, commercial and speciality modeling.
Fashion Modeling includes things like clothing campaigns, posing for magazines, catalogues and ramp walks.
Commercial Modeling involves modeling to promote product sales.
Speciality Modelling is for those with special faces and bodies.
Males models are required to have a height of 5ft 11 in to 6ft 2 in. A waist of 26-33 in and a chest measurement of 32-40 in.
Modeling is not just about famous faces. Models have to be confident; confidence is the key to success in this career.
Modeling careers for men has become very popular, as the fashion industry has been growing. Male models are the missing part so fashion could be completed. Male models is not as old as female models, but they have become a really important part of today's society.
Male models doesn't face as much challenges and adversities as female models do, but they also have to keep their body as the fashion industry requires them.
Even when male models are not as usual as females models, they earn similar money as females models do per contract.
Male models have a very interesting effect in today's society increasing magazines, companies and brands popularity to the point of becoming essential. Today Male models are essential to the Fashion industry.
Works Cited
"How To Become A Male Model - How To Become A Male Model Guide." EzineArticles Submission - Submit Your Best Quality Original Articles For Massive Exposure, Ezine Publishers Get 25 Free Article Reprints. Web. 18 Dec. 2009. .
"Model (person) -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 18 Dec. 2009. .

"Anotated Bibliography"

Works Cited
"Fashion Model Definition." Apparel Search, search for apparel, fashion, clothing, models, news, employment, search engine, shopping, directory, apparelsearch, jobs, clothes, fashion industry, clothing industry, b2b. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. . This is a very complete web page, it explains very clearly what a model is, what kind of models there are, what they do, what do they look like and what characteristics a model has to have in order to be successful. This page really helped me, when I was starting with my blog and didn't know much about models. This page only shows the good side of being model, and when reading it made me want to learn more about models and this career.
"History of Runway Modeling - Life123." Life123 - How To Guides for Busy Lifestyles. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. . I love this article is explains the history of runway modeling, how it started in the early 19th century in France and how it developed in America in 20th century. It is a great place to learn about the roots of this polemic career, it gave me a better understandment on how all of this started, it also makes me think about how things have changed and how difficult this career has become. In this article you can find the history of this topic in a fun and interesting way, without having to read much.
Issues & Controversies on File. "Thin Fashion Models." Issues and controversies on file 2007 (2007): 89-93. Print. This article is very helpful, it is reliable and has many points of view of the experts on eating disorders about today's runway models. Also it gives background information that makes the topic easy to understand even when you don't know much about it.
"The New York Times Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. . In this article are listed the names of runways models that have died due to heart attacks caused by eating disorders. This article explains what was that happened to this girls and what the fashion industry says about it. It also explains that as time goes on, runway models are getting skinnier at the point where people in the audience of the fashion shows can count the model's ribs. Allure magazine editor, Linda Wells said "There were moments during the shows when I could hear gasps in the audience at their appearance. What becomes alarming is when you see bones and start counting ribs"
"The New York Times Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. . I found this article very interesting, and it made me look at models in a different way. Now I think of them like prisoners of people's caprices, but it made me realize that people are not interested on runway models as they were some years ago, now they prefer Hollywood stars to be the ones who appear on the magazine's covers.
"USATODAY.com - Do thin models warp girls' body image?" News, Travel, Weather, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, U.S. & World - USATODAY.com. Web. 04 Oct. 2009. . This is an interesting article on how thin models (many of them with eating disorders) are having effects on young girls, but it also gives details about what the world is doing to prevent young girls of becoming anorexic or bulimic. For example in Madrid models that were under the healthy weight were banned, because most of the young girls are not satisfied with their body figure, because the established body figure is runway model like! I liked this article because it is reliable and shows current events on the Fashion Model topic.

Letter to a Leader

Angela Carrillo
93 Meadowood Dr B4
Carbondale, CO 81623

Tyra Banks
Endeavor Agency
9061 Wilshire Blvd.
3rd Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90212


Dear Tyra Banks:

I truly like the "America's Next Top Model" show; I think is the greatest show that has ever existed. I also admire you, your career and your beauty, but also the way you have succeeded in the television industry. Your character besides your body and beauty is what makes you so beautiful and popular in the view of the public. Also, the way you support those girls who dream of becoming famous top models like you is really admirable.

However, when watching your show I realize that not every girl will have the opportunity to become a model. I find myself as one of those girls, who are not very thin and not very tall, but who would love to be one of those famous models able to wear what the fashion industry says is “in.” Wouldn't it be easier and healthier if models were not as thin?

Models have influenced women's lives to the point where women are diffident about their bodies, making them try to be as thin as possible, ignoring what the consequences may be. Models were admired a lot more some years ago when they were not very thin, because they had a figure that seemed attainable for every women, perhaps they looked healthier and more natural.

I, as part of the U.S. community would love to see models with a little more body, just like the Hollywood stars, who don’t need to be skinny to be famous and appear on magazine's covers, or to be people’s favorite stars. This would not only help a model to be more auspicious, it would help to decrease many eating disorders between girls and young women of the country.




Regards,


Angela Carrillo

Fashion Model Job Trends

This graph displays the percentage of jobs with search terms anywhere in the job listing. Since March 2008 the Fashion Model Jobs has increased 88%. This means that as the time goes on, Fashion Industry keeps interpolating young girls about modeling, and young girls are eager to become auspicious by getting in the Fashion Industry.

Works Cited
"Fashion Model Trends | Simply Hired." Job Search Made Simple | Simply Hired. Web. 24 Nov. 2009. .

Are Actresses Edging Out Models on Magazine Covers?

My article is about actresses taking away models work, I found this article in the New York Times web page. There were many related to my topic, but I chose this one because I thought it was interesting and it could keep my blog interesting. I also chose it because it matches with my latest post. This article has more opinion than facts and it was written by Suzy Menkes.
In this article Marc Jacobs chief sponsor of the Costume Institute exhibition, talks about how models are having hard time appearing on magazines covers, because those magazines are featuring Hollywood stars' issues. "The idea of supermodels came in a pop culture when actresses weren't that interesting. Now Hollywood is filled with young actresses, and there is digital technology to make them look good."(Jacobs) Also Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue magazine, admits that people today is more likely to find star power in Hollywood than on the run way. "The public interest in models these last few years has not been as it was during the early' 90s when Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista caused so much excitement, and until models become celebrities again in their own right, I can't see them selling as well on magazine covers as actresses" (Wintour) She also said that in order for models to become popular and famous as Hollywood stars, they are going to have to live that sort of "fishbowl" existence.
For me models this days are only to be on the runways, they aren't as facetious as actresses are and that is why we prefer to see actresses on magazine covers. Also i think that models are just so skinny and abnormal and sometimes even hubris for people to look up, also their type of body and kind of life make people think of how imperfect we are, while actresses are cute, and interesting but they also have a reachable figure for people to follow, and even they show us more about their lives so we realize that they are just like us and i think that is the main reason of why we prefer them on the magazine covers.
Even though I'm used to see actresses on magazine covers, i never thought that fashion models were running out of opportunities to appear on them. I never thought about runway models to appear on something else besides the fashion shows, and i think that is another issue for the fashion industry to consider, because even when they think as their models as perfect the reality is that those models aren't as famous and loved as Hollywood stars are. I also think that people is getting tired of trying to follow models way of living, because of the obstacles and issues they face every day, and that's why don't really see their life as the life we would love to live.

Works Cited
"The New York Times Log In." The New York Times- Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Web. 17 Nov. 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/fashion/05iht-fcover.html?_r=1>.

"The New York Times Log In." The New York Times- Breakin News, World News &
Multimedia. Web. 21 Nov. 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/fashion/05iht-fcover.html?_r=1>.

Vocab

1. Many people think that fashion industry should abrogate skinny models from runways.
2. Models are over abstemious about eating because they don't want to get fat.
3. Fashion Industry are feckless about models health, they just want to sale their clothes.
4. Models belie about their health, but actually many of them have serious eating disorders.
5. Some girls think that they are gauche because they don't have a perfect figure like fashion models do.
6. Young women think that looking like a model is the key in order to be auspicious.
7. Experts think that skinny models are deleterious to young girls.
8. At the beginning a lot of models are diffident about showing their body, but after some time they become very confident.
9. Tyra Banks was the most facetious model on 2006 and that helped her to become very famous.
10. Fashion models are always against being incognito, that is why they want to appear on the most read magazines covers.

Are Thin Models "In" or "Out" of Fashion?

"Everyone has a passion that is lost on others" (Robin Givhan)

While some people think that thin models are a bad influence for young women and girls, others like fashion industry don't really care, because the only thing they care is about selling their clothes and making their designs become popular and known.

Nowadays Germany's most popular magazine has a new project, use real women for magazine covers. This models are real they aren't thin, and they aren't on diet or in the gym their whole life. "These are women who are taking part in normal life, Women who have their own identity, a job and a name". (Brigitte Huber). This project was created so people would start to realize that there is no need to be skinny to be pretty and neither to be auspicious, also to make society believe on what each person's strengths are and promote self-esteem. "Of course we're still looking for attractive people, but for women who've also got something to say". (Huber) This project isn't about saving money as some people might think, it is going to be opposite, because production cost will be higher since these new models won't know how to pose for pictures as the professional ones would. Last month Glamour magazine published an uncensored photo of a plus size model. Lizzie Miller appeared complete with tummy fat and there was no bowdlerzing . But even though those projects are going on, fashion industry isn't stopping making really small clothing. Recently Polo Ralph Lauren fired model Filippa Hamilton. Hamilton was supposed to appear in an advertisement, but her picture was retouched into a cartoon. The design house said that the altered image was a mistake. ( Givhan). But then the model said that she was fired because she didn't fit the samples. Later the design house called her beautiful and healthy but unable to fulfill her contractual obligations (Givhan)

But actually people are feckless about the effects that skinny models are having on society, in fact people keep asking for this kind of models to keep appearing on magazines covers and advertisements. "The only force that stopped people from buying clothes and magazines was the souring economy, not righteous indignation over skinny models". (Givhan)

"By its very nature, fashion is a business of falsehoods and costumes. The uncomfortable truth about the fashion industry is that it has a knack for tapping into unspoken cultural obsessions". (Givhan) Fashion industry sets a world of perfection, and all indicators show that people follow it because of fear of becoming fat. "Fashion not only reject the overweight and the obese. It also gives the average a hard time, too; it makes them worry about every cookie eaten at the end of meal or every exercise commitment that goes unmet." (Givhan) In everyday life people watch many advertisements with thin models, but they don't really hesitate when they see them, they even want to look like them, but when a fat model comes out people really criticize and make fun of her, whether thinking she is ugly or saying she's fat. "NB C's "Biggest Loser" isn't a success because contestants lose 50- 60 pounds and they become healthier. It's popular because they lose a lot of weight and they become svelte and buff. Those people are competing to be thin not for being healthy. And we don't blame them; we embrace their agony". (Givhan)

"There is a lot to say whether runway models are healthy or not.Some horribly airbrushed photos notwithstanding, the main focus of the complaints isn't that the look is unpleasant but that it's unattainable for most people. And before fashion models get any bigger, people in general will just have to get smaller". (Givhan) " Fashion tells us something about ourselves and our culture. It does that by reflecting a heightened or twisted reality. It may be that the only way to change the fashion industry's portrayal of women in not by trying to make sense of the funhouse reflection but reconsidering the original subject matter". (Givhan)

Thanks to http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/dailyrecord3/sep2009/5/3/lizzie-miller-image-2-634120544.jpg .
Works Cited
"Connect the World: Blog Archive - Are skinny models going out of fashion?" Connect the World: - Blogs from CNN.com. Web. 12 Nov. 2009. .
"Robin Givhan on Fashion: Size of the Model vs. Size of the Customer - washingtonpost.com." Washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines. Web. 12 Nov. 2009. .

Movie Review (America's Next Top Model)

"The Girl who is here to win, not make friends"

America's Next top Model is a reality television show, where a number of young women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and the opportunity to start their career in the modeling industry. America's Next Top Model was created by model Tyra Banks in May 2003, but she didn't only created, she also serves as the head judge, hosts it and is the executive producer of the show. Each season has from 9-13 episodes and starts with 10-14 contestants. In each episode, one contestant is eliminated by the judging panel, they evaluate the girl's development and their abilities to succeed as a top model.
Every episode usually starts by showing the contestants receiving training in an area concurrent with the week's theme. Then it features a fashion challenge, such as a mock runway show or interview, then the judging panel chooses the winner and give her some prize like clothing or a night out. In the next part the photo shot takes place, and each contestant's performance will show her effort. She's going to be heavily judged on what she did for that week, and it's going to depend on that if she stays in the competition or if she has to leave. Photo shots include posing in bikini or lingerie shots, nude or semi-nude, posing with a male model and posing with animals.

The final part of each episode is judging. When judging each contestant's photo is shown and evaluated, the contestants can't be in the room while the judges are deliberating.Next is the elimination, as Tyra reveals and hands out the photos of the contestants that have not been eliminated one-by-one, in order of merit, leaving the two gauche for last. Tyra critiques each one of them before revealing which of the two is continuing on in the competition.

America's Next top model is one of the best reality shows ever made, it shows how hard it is to become a model, but at the same time how cool and exciting this career can be. By watching this show, people can realize that top models are very thin and they are usually under pressure of keeping their body in perfect shape, but also it shows women dream about becoming famous and known. The show is the CW network's highest rated and it has been called the #1 show in average viewers.Its creator, Tyra Banks is one of the most famous and facetious model in the world, she received VH1 award for supermodel of the year, also she was the first African-American chosen for the cover of Victoria's secret catalog. And the producer is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, record producer, and musician. This show is a very fun and interesting reality show, that shows what life is like for models, that once you start watching it you can't stop watching it until it ends. I really like everything about this show, from what models do to how fun this career can be. I also like it because it's exactly what i was looking for, when talking about modeling., it shows the good side of modeling, how they have fun when they do what they love.

Thanks to http://www.rise-worldwide.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/antm.jpg for the picture

Reflection

When we started with this blog project, I liked the idea and I was really looking forward on doing it, but when Ms. Hentschel told us that we were doing it for a very long time, it disappointed me. Then we were told to choose a topic that was interesting to us, and that we weren’t going to get bored by it. I was very confused and I didn’t know what topic to choose, first I wanted to make it about something fun, but then I realized that there might not be a lot of information about it. And then I thought of the Top Models topic, and I realized that this was a polemic topic and that a lot of people would be interested on learning about it, I also thought that it had a lot of history and information. It sounded like the perfect topic, because we see models everywhere and everyday and I thought it would be fun and interesting learning a little bit more about them. When writing the posts and looking for information, I found out that it wasn’t the perfect topic anymore. I had really hard times looking for reliable information, and when finding information and used it for a post, I noticed that a lot of the web pages had the same info as the one that I had already used, some others were circumlocution and they didn’t give good details to what I was looking for. Also looking for the answers to the question that I had and answering them with exciting and interesting answers was really a pain for me, that made my brain over work. But I’ve learned a lot of interesting facts, and what people think about modeling. I learned from what models eat and what they do to keep their body in “perfect” shape, to what their life is like, which is not easy and it’s full of sacrifices. Also that modeling career depends on what people want to see, and when they decide that thin models are “out” of fashion, thin models are going to have no job, therefore no way to be auspicious. Now I’m looking for issues and challenges that models face, but not the issues that people make them face, but issues in their personal lives. I want to add some good things about modeling that way my blog isn’t just focused on bad things but it’ll be more interesting and fun. I want to look for info of what they think of their lives and whether they have fun when modeling or not. That way my blog is going to be a little bit more interesting and exciting.

What is the greatest challenge to a model?

Being skinny is the greatest challenge for a model, because of the way the fashion industry makes their clothes. Those clothes are really small and only really skinny models can fit in them. Also a having a perfect skin and hair is really important for a model in order for them to be successful.
“During the 1990s the ideal body type for models changed drastically, from ideal models having an hour glass with a 4-6 size figure to bodies really thin with a 0-2 size“(Issues&Controversies) But it does stop there, models mostly weight under 120 pounds, and that is not healthy at all because they are really tall, and healthy women with that height usually weights over 125 pounds. Models are always under pressure since their job depends on what people is demanding. Today people is demanding models to be very tall and thin, and that is exactly why models are always trying to look thin, since their life and income depends on that, models decide to sacrifice themselves from the eating the tasty food that each one of them loves. Experts say that modeling is a career full of sacrifice, where women stop being women, and start trying to reach some kind of perfection that does not even exist, and they are always belying about life and they show what is really happening in their lives. Models are always depriving themselves of eating, they don’t even drink a lot of water because they are afraid of weighting too much. A lot of them spent hours and hours in the gym, so they can burn off the calories they gained when they ate, even when the only thing they ate did‘t have a lot of calories. They only eat small portions of vegetables and some rice, but no more. And after 6 in the afternoon they don’t eat anything else. Models are feckless about their health, and they only want to have an auspicious life. But another important characteristic for a model is having a perfect skin and hair, and that brings up the question how do they keep them like that, even when their body does not have what is needed to keep them healthy? Models have very strict diets that help them to have their hair and skin healthy looking, and they have to sleep eight hours. But actually a lot of them does not even look like their pictures in real life, there are many photo tricks to make them look perfect. Models almost never have fun, either because they have to take care of their skin not to get damaged or because they always really busy looking at how much they weight. Models are constantly starving and they don’t’ have a real life, while modeling they are forgetting to live, and some years later, when they are old to keep modeling, that they are not “perfect” anymore, they find out that they wasted some beautiful moments and events, because they were trying to reach perfection.
Models love their job, and that is why they sacrifice themselves. Some of them either love being known and famous or being perfect and feeling goddess, but the real thing is that, those kinds of sacrifices don’t lead anyone to the perfection, that those sacrifices only lead to deadly illness such as anorexia and bulimia. Models and women should understand that perfection is not a real thing, and that every single person is perfect just the way they are. Models should do what they do if they think that is the right thing to do with their lives, not because society is demanding skinny people to show what is “in”, women should not sacrifice anything in order to become known, they should just live their life and look for the happiness which is the closest thing to perfection.

Works Cited
"Female Consumers Hate the Unbearable Lightness of Fashion Models - Society and Culture Bocconi Master of Science Virtual Open Day." Home Bocconi Bachelor and Master of Science Virtual Open Day. Web. 24 Oct. 2009. .
"How to become a model." Welcome to Webindia123.com, India's Premier Reference Portal - Publishing information related to india and providing services like News, E-Cards, Shopping, Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Career Guidense, Matrimonial etc. Web. 24 Oct. 2009. .
Issues & Controversies on File. "Thin Fahion Models." Issues and controversies on file 12 (2007): 89-93. Print.

Also thanks to http://www.hpb.gov.sg/uploadedImages/HPB_Online/Health_Topics/Food_for_Health/More_Information_For/42-17114959v1.jpg for the picture.

Top Models Survey

Making the Top Models survey made me realize that not many people care about this topic and the ones that do, they don’t really know much about it, not matter if they are students or adults, female or male. According to my survey 7 know a little bit, 2 know quite bit and 1 is an expert out of a total of ten people that took the survey. I realized that a lot people consider thin models a bad influence for young girls and women, 8 out of 10 answered to this question with an absolutely which 6 were female and 2 were male and 5 out of the 8 were students and 2 were adults, one was a student and the other one was an adult. And 2 out 10 answered that they didn’t think they are bad influence.
Another question asked in the survey was about the fashion industry and whether they should adopt strict limits on how thin models can be,7 out of 10 think that the fashion industry should do that, from those 7 5 were student and 2 were adults,6 were female and 1 was a male. But 3 of the ten answered to this question with a I don’t think that would help, and from those 3,2 were male and 1 female, all of them were students. The last question asked in this survey was that if they think that Top Models have a good life. Only one person answered with yes, they’re lucky, it a was a male and he is a student. Half of the people answered with a I don’t know, 4 were female students, and 1 was a male student, but 4 out of 10 answered with a I don’t think they do, 3 were female, 2 were students and only one was an adult, and also only one male adult answered this question the same way.
The results didn’t really surprised me, because almost all of the question were answered the way I would answered them. I also think that the results came out like this because we as citizens don’t really know about the modeling industry, and we only know the most heard topics, also because we don’t really care about what is happening with them, since not a lot of normal people can become a model.
When looking at the results, my next post is going to be about models life and what they think of themselves, how happy they live and how much they care about heir health, because I think that a lot of models are belying about their happiness and I think some of them also are being churlish with their lives.
And I think that would make my blog interesting and helpful when learning abut models.

www.apparelsearch.com

The website apparelsearch.com is an effective, interesting , accurate and credible source for the information on the Fashion Models theme. Since it was created by Apparel Search company and has information from some of the most important new papers like The New York Times is very accurate and credible. It was created in 1999 but it has been updated until today. This page is very easy to navigate and anyone can find information very easily, it has a lot of information and it defines every word very clear. By looking at it, it doesn't look very reliable and interesting to read, but when reading it, it proves the opposite. The information it gives is accurate and matches with other web pages information about this topic, but it also is missing some of the current issues. People can learn a lot from this page, from history to today's different types of models. The page's goal is to give people a better understanding of what a model is and what they do. Even though the web page doesn't have a lot of helpful visuals and it is a little circumlocution it is a very helpful and auspicious page, that makes people understand about models and what their job is.

Works Cited
"Fashion Model Definition." Apparel Search, search for apparel, fashion, clothing, models, new, employment, search engine, shopping, directory, apparelsearch, jobs, clothes, fashion industry, clothing industry, b2b. Web. 10 Oct. 2009t.

Models Today

When thinking of models people think of them like beautiful and perfect. But are they really that perfect?
In recent years, health experts have noted that people in the U.S. have getting heavier, however fashion models have been moving in the opposite direction(Issues & Controversies). Making the image of the ideal women glorify eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa which causes people to obsess over weight over abstemious of food and become extremely underweight, and also bulimia nervosa, which engages in extreme activities such as vomiting to undo the effects of eating(I&C). Experts think that that kind of image is having effect on girls unsecured about their weight, and those girls are more likely to get eating disorders, because most of them want to become famous models and actresses just like the ones from the magazines covers. “Girls today, even very young ones are being bombarded with the message that they need to be supper-skinny to be sexy.(Sharon Lamb). The promotion of the thin, sexy ideal in our culture has created a situation where the majority of girls and women don’t like their bodies, and body dissatisfaction can lead girls to participate in very unhealthy behaviors to try to control weight (Sarah Murnen). Some designers think that women shouldn’t be comparing themselves with the girls from the runways, because those girls are anomalies of nature, they are freaks of nature. They are not average, because they are naturally thin and have incredibly long legs compared to the rest of their body, also their eyes are wide set apart(Kelly Cutrone) Some other have said that runways models don’t have any eating disorder, their body is just as it is and that clothes look better on them, so they say that there is no reason to be worried about, because those girls are healthy, and that’s why they choose them.(us today.com)
Today’s runway models look pretty much alike. They are all pretty girls, but no one really stands out. For runway it is about highlighting the clothes. It is finding the girls that make you clothes look best, says Stephanie Schur. However recent deaths of several fashion models, which had been proved of having eating disorders has intensified the debate over the use of thin fashion models. In 2006, Spain abrogated models that were underweight form participating in fashion shows there. The same year Milan, adopted similar rules, but they were optional. In January 2007 some observers say that unless the rules are clear about how thin models are allowed to be, there will be no solution to the problem. But some other observers think that there is no need to regulate models weight. During New York City’s fashion week, there were models younger than 16, and some specialists think that having them as models is not a good idea, they think that the models under 16 are not fully developed and they are really thin and they don’t weight much, but when start fully developing is a really hard time for them because they start gaining weight and they are not as thin as they want to be, and that leads them to an eating disorder, because of the pressure to loose weight.
“The fashion industry is promotion of beauty as meaning stick thin is damaging to young girls is self image and to their health”(Tessa Jowell) Models are an unseparable part of fashion, but women come in lots of different seizes and shapes and people should encourage and celebrate that…Models will become heavier if that’s what consumes demand. If people decide thin is out, the fashion industry won’t have thin models anymore, because they are only caring about money” (usatoday.com)
“Fashion industry should consider that people want clothes to cover their bodies, but most of them are not comfortable with their bodies”(ustoday.com)

Works Cited
Issues & Controversies on File. "Thin Fashion MOdels." Issues and controversies on file 2007 (2007): 89-93. Print.
"USATODAY.com - Do thin models warp girls' body image?" News, Travel, Weather, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, U.S. & World - USATODAY.com. Web. 04 Oct. 2009. . also thanks tohttp://www.peoplejam.com/files/u3264/thin_runway.jpg for the picture.

History of Modeling

The art of modeling started back in the ancient Greece. Where models were fine art models, and artists used their human form as inspiration for artwork that appears lifelike and accurate. But that changed drastically and now a model is someone who is employed to display and promote fashion clothing or other products and for advertising or promotional purposes. Modeling is sometimes consider an art, even though many people does not think of it like this. Modeling is different from other types of public performance, like acting and dancing. However models still have to express emotion in their photographs, so they can be a successful model. There are different types of models, that include fashion, glamour, and body-part models.
Fashion modeling involves catwalk or runway modeling. In 1943 Clyde Matthew was the first person to use the term "Supermodel" in a "how-to" book he wrote about modeling. " Supermodel" has been used several times in the media in the 1960s and 1970s. A model is known for their beauty and their excellent body, and when Marilyn Monroe became a sex symbol, the ideal measurements for a model adapted Marilyn's (90-60-90). Supermodels are highly paid, and they become known as cover girls, appear on top fashion magazine cover, in catalogues and in fashion shows.
Glamour Modeling emphasizes the model’s sexuality instead of products, fashion or the environment. This type of modeling often focuses on the body. These models are responsible of making calendars, pinup and men’s magazines.
Body part Models are employed for their special and attractive body parts. Some models that are too small to be another type of model have been successful in this type of modeling.
Today the art of modeling have been criticized by acumen critics, who really first thought of the well being of the models than the business. Some models are really skinny and they are consider a bad example for the teen women that admire them. Some of them had been taken off the runways because they are not able to wear a “0” size clothing. Some other had died because of their exaggerated abstemious when eating, when they are looking for the “perfect” body. But not everything is bad the models who have become the supermodel status can earn yearly salaries equivalent to million of U.S. dollars. Even when the model is not famous all over the world, but has a steady full-time-work. Some other reasons women consider on modeling besides money is the recognition and gifts received when they become one of them.

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Introduction

Model

A model is a young male or female that works promoting fashion stuff for a brand or company. A model's face soon becomes a model to follow for many people, and by showing their body they become popular and admired mostly by young women. Being a model is a very exigent job, and some of the requirements are: responsability, character, height, sympathy and personality.

But why do people want to be a model?, what are some of the benefits of becoming one?, what challenges do they face? and What are some of the risks of becoming one?