A number
of things have been on my mind recently, probably due to a number of factors.
The first was my decision to (finally!) buy ‘Lolita’, a book that I’ve been
meaning to read for years and was also one of the only English books I could
actually get hold of in a French bookshop. The second was a conversation that I had with
my friend Hamza, a long conversation about how the media manipulates social
views of beauty and uses certain types of women to sell certain kinds of
products. The third element has just been actually meeting and chatting to
people that have been to model castings and hearing their experiences – for
example, one found that the designer never actually spoke to him personally,
instead using her assistant to communicate despite being in the room, whereas
another girl (undoubtedly one of the most strikingly beautiful girls I know)
was apparently ‘too fat’ for the job – bearing in mind she has a figure that
most women would kill for.
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| Promo poster for 'Girl Model' |
