Before writing the article, I will state my position. I give 4 stars, not because I think this film is so good, but because I think it is not so bad that it only has a passing line. So vindicate a higher score. Movies and fashion are my two favorite things. I have not studied movies professionally, so I am not very good at writing film reviews. But when it comes to fashion, even if I have not studied fashion systematically, it is really superficial and easy to understand, so I still have a lot to say! A large part of people feel that they understand fashion and feel that they are fashionistas, and they are fashionable, fashionable, and most fashionable fashion brothers (first sisters) wherever they go. However, not many people understand fashion, at least they have not even heard of the most important part of fashion-High Fashion. If it were not for Liu Wen's participation in domestic variety shows, many people would equate the existence of supermodels with Lin Chiling. The film involves many models with high elimination rate, high-end ready-to-wear catwalk shows, Steven Klein's aesthetic style, and early fashion extravagance, which obviously refers to High Fashion. So, let me talk about the gap between the film and the reality of High Fashion. First of all, from the perspective of "beauty". The film is too formalistic and labelled. Almost all characters and lines have symbolic meanings. This "beauty" is the same. For example, the designer said "Beauty is everything". But obviously the understanding is blunt and not in-depth. No matter how superficial fashion is, even if some designers yell "beauty! Want beauty! Want beauty!", what they do is not to pursue boring and cliché beauty, but to develop "beauty" like an artist. , For the development of different forms of "beauty", but they also require fashion. Models, too! The models selected by High Fashion are for high-end ready-to-wear designers and photographers. They are not in line with the "beauty" recognized by everyone like commercial models such as Lin Chiling and Miranda Kerr. Between businesses, this point will not be discussed in depth). The following answers from the two IMG model agency scouts are better than a film clamoring about "beauty", which explains what type of model is more suitable for High Fashion↓
Because of this, the High Fashion industry has developed for decades at most, and has already mined countless unique faces↓
With so many different types of faces, a few of them are linked to the "beauty" in the popular definition, and this is not related to the aesthetic error of the East and the West. Chinese people always regard High Fashion's aesthetics too much as Westerners' aesthetics. In fact, foreigners generally think that Fan Bingbing is more beautiful than Lu Yan, and not many foreigners will look at the model on the poster and say, "Oh my God. "Her freckles are so beautiful", "The gap between the teeth is so beautiful", "This forehead is as big as an alien, so cool." But in the High Fashion industry, defects will be transformed into recognition and become a weapon for you to dominate the show.
Among so many types of models, the one with the highest value is the fairy model and a large wave of beauty models. However, models of this type usually pass their peaks relatively quickly. After a period of time, they either no longer appear on the show, or they transform to endorsement beauty and other commercial advertisements.
In this way, the natural and indifferent face really can't think of any threats in reality. Since High Fashion cannot be the representative of everyone's pursuit of "beauty", what the hell is the phrase "My mother used to call me dangerous"? I'm not sure if the director wanted to tell a fable about "beauty". If it is, then it is not suitable to wear fashionable clothes. Second, talk about "cannibalism." As mentioned above, the High Fashion industry loves the new and dislikes the old, pursues new faces, and has a high rate of elimination of models. The film simply uses "cannibalism" to express this theme. But the truth is far more cruel than the film. Professional models are like professional athletes. I walked on the road when I was 15 or 16 years old. I was dug and trained by scouts. I can’t eat whatever I want, stay up late and have fun like other young girls. I have to practice dancing and do a lot of exercise to keep my limbs flexible and coordinated. In order to obtain the smoothness of the action when taking pictures, the mastery of the shutter rhythm, etc., you also need to read many books, many movies, and many arts to understand the creative intentions of photographers and designers. After that, we provide photographers, designers, well-known magazines, etc. to choose from. Those with good conditions, hard work, and good luck will naturally be selected, but among the thousands of girls, there are often only one or two. Many people have worked hard to be models, but they have been lacking an opportunity. Unconsciously, after a few years of hard work, they have passed the most suitable age to be a model. You worked so hard to give your youth for it, and when you were around 30, you were asked to make a living by another means. The cruelty and competition in this industry are far from being restored by eating one or two newcomers. However, I also admire the director's choice to talk about the chapter of "cannibalism". Especially the image of "Puma" appeared in the film. In recent years, with the continuous expansion of cities, the habitat of cougars has become less and less, and there have been frequent incidents of cougars appearing in the suburbs in the United States. The living condition of the model is like the current puma, habitat and other resources are divided up, and they have to constantly compete and fight to obtain more resources. Our protagonist actually fell into the "lion's mouth" as early as on the way to pursue his dream. Finally, let me talk about the current state of the fashion industry. In fact, the film has always alluded to the "pedophile" side of the fashion circle. The fashion industry was officially stigmatized as "pedophilia", beginning in the baby-face era led by supermodels such as Gemma Ward and Lily Cole.
But even so, the fashion industry has never stopped searching for more tender faces. Many of the models on the MDC Top 50 list were born in 1997 or 1998.
Chanel's 2013 spring and summer ads featured 16-year-old Yumi Lambert and 15-year-old Ondria Hardin.
In addition, the fashion circle has begun to show a new trend, that is, many star second generations, model second generations, rich second generations, Internet celebrities, and some celebrities represented by "KFC sisters" have begun to enter the fashion industry with limited resources. Was raided. Because in this pile of star second-generation models, many models whose hardware and strength are not as well-trained as well-trained models, because of their background and online exposure, they have robbed many models of their jobs. Many people have begun to think that "the era of supermodels has fallen." NS".
The accelerating pursuit of immature blood in the fashion circle, the decline of the supermodel era and the rise of the Internet celebrity era. The High Fashion model industry will be even more bloody. In general, High Fashion is still a field worthy of reference for film creation. However, no matter how superficial and far away from the public, it will still be quite laborious and obscure to explain. The director may want to use fashion and models to explain a prediction about "beauty", but I want to say that he chose the wrong theme. This is a fashion work produced by a director who does not understand fashion. The whole story cannot be too convincing. . There are too many understandings about it on the Internet and there are errors, which explains this defect of the film. Ps: The model industry mentioned in this article only refers to the HF model industry, and does not apply to a series of other model industries such as commerce, Taobao, and auto shows.
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