The pressure to stay thin is already crazy during Fashion Week, and Knight remembers it being even worse in the model apartment. I feel like that’s why so many girls are so skinny.”Īnother factor beyond house-mom control: dangerous dieting strategies. “A lot of them do cocaine like it’s nothing, like it’s water,” she says. “I was lucky to avoid the party scene.”īyrnes personally remembers drug use among women she knew from model apartments. “I was extremely vulnerable to being influenced by other people’s behaviors,” says Knight, reflecting on her first show season in an NYC model apartment. Though agencies, which tend to own a few apartments in each fashion week city, hire “house moms” to ensure that the space is liveable and to look after models, there’s a lot they can’t, or choose not to, control.įor example, drug use - a major issue in general for young models - can run rampant in houses, where peer pressure abounds. Her rent, she says, “was close to $3,000 per month … for a bunk bed.” This time around, she’s staying in an Airbnb with two other models.Įven crazier than the cost of housing is the culture inside them. Byrnes, who’s from Las Vegas, stayed in NYC modeling housing in June 2015 when she was 17. Often, models who travel from other states or countries will stay in agency-owned “model’s houses”: two- and three-bedroom apartments that sleep up to six girls in each room. Worse, models find themselves spiraling into “debt” with their agencies when “work doesn’t come straight away,” says Knight. What it boils down to, model Byrnes tells The Post, is that “you don’t make a lot of money doing Fashion Week unless you’re famous.” 19-year-old Paris Al-Atraqchi walked in five shows last Fashion Week and “didn’t get paid a dime.” “How many purses does one woman need? I have two shoulders, I don’t need five purses,” says the model, who’s since shot more lucrative print ads for Hermès and Alexander Wang. In Knight’s experience, NYFW pays “in trade a lot.” That’s part of why she’s put her pickle-eating days behind her. “The word everyone likes to use is ‘exposure.’ They’ll say, ‘Oh, I won’t pay you money, but it’s great exposure,’ ” 18-year-old Rachael Pope, who recently signed with the modeling agency ANTHM and has walked in smaller shows in New York, tells The Post. ‘ was discounting girls who aren’t famous and aren’t born into rich families’ While industry insiders say that highly sought-after models such as Jenner can rake in as much as hundreds of thousands for walking in a show, lesser-known models are often paid in merchandise or store credit - if they’re paid at all. Runway hopefuls often strut for little to no money, cram into crowded and expensive apartments and face pressure to stay slim at any cost - including starvation, purging and drugs. While Jenner, who boasts 94.9 million Instagram followers and netted $22 million in 2017, can be found passing Fashion Week in posh hotels and posing backstage with the likes of Alexander Wang, lesser-known models have much bleaker experiences. “ their work is nothing, like it’s not that hard to do.” “She was discounting girls who aren’t famous and aren’t born into rich families,” she says. Model Peyton Knight, who ate pickles from bodegas in lieu of meals during her first Fashion Week in 2015, tells The Post that she felt “triggered” by Jenner’s quote. have to show up ON TIME,” high-fashion model Teddy Quinlivan wrote on Jenner’s Instagram. “ ‘Those girls’ make exponentially less for the same job as you. Though Jenner later claimed that her words were taken out of context, tweeting, “It was intended to be entirely complimentary,” members of the catwalking community didn’t take it that way. It’s a hustle.” She’s been attending up to 10 castings per day in the lead-up to Fashion Week, which kicked off Wednesday, and will continue to do so in the days ahead.īyrnes falls under the category of what Kendall Jenner - the world’s highest-paid model - recently dubbed “those girls.” As in: “I was never one of those girls who would do like 30 shows a season, or whatever the f–k those girls do,” as Jenner told LOVE magazine last month. “People glamorize Fashion Week a lot, like it’s an amazing magical thing,” Byrnes tells The Post. The 5-foot-9 strutter isn’t guaranteed a spot in shows, even the ones she was cast in and fitted for earlier that same week. Model Shelbi Byrnes, 20, won’t be rolling up to New York Fashion Week in an Escalade flanked by bodyguards. 'Clowncore,' trend rocked by Harry Styles and Lady Gaga, is no joke Rapper flexes ridiculous naked muscle suit at Paris fashion weekįlorida schools move to ban 'furries' items to curb 'barking and meowing' in classĬat born without eyelids has 100-pair sunglasses collection: 'So chill'
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