There’s been a recent revival in the topic of the ‘hardships of models’ in articles lately. My Facebook newsfeed brought it to my attention - thank you Facebook. And as I was doing my usual procrastination I decided I may as well read them.The first was an online article written by Emma Ciufo for fashion magazine Grazia. Before I go into any detail about the article let’s just assume this is not written by an expert. I have a good, hard feeling this was written by an intern. How do I know this? I have done some work for Grazia myself and this sort of “quick? We need some fluff piece story now!” is definitely something an intern would qualify for.
So the article is titled- Aussie Model Spills: I lose half my hair during fashion week
And it starts like this –
“If you ever thought that being model was all about hanging out with Terry
Richardson, wearing designer clothes and doing your best Zoolander, then listen
up to rising ustralian model Chrystal Copland, who tells it how it is…hair loss
and all.”
Yep, so we can now all agree this was most definitely written by an intern, or the editor’s 12 year old daughter (I’m just being mean now sorry).
Although I do love online journalism, there is a strong sense of urgency when you’re writing it. A submit it now or die sort of feeling (slightly too dramatic?). You type your article in your Word document and paste it into your blog or website and it can be done in less than fifteen minutes. But with the advantages of a quick upload and instant potential global audience comes the disadvantages.
And in poor Emma’s case this is spelling... and grammar.
The most critical thing with online journalism is editing. Rereading your typed words and making sure they are coherent and spelt correctly. In Emma’s case I’m sure she was under a lot of pressure to have this story uploaded promptly and had a whole fashion cupboard full of returns waiting for her as well. And I am not perfect either (so close though, wouldn’t you agree?). I am sure there are numerous spelling and grammar errors throughout many of my posts. But the other great advantage of online journalism is I can change, fix, edit and update my posts as often as I like.
So this post was meant to be on the hardships models face in the industry, but quickly turned into a small scope on SOME of the advantages and disadvantages of online journalism.
So I’ll leave you with some cool photos of models facing those ‘hardships’ and the relevant articles, Facebook links etc.
Emma Ciufo's Grazia article
Although I do love online journalism, there is a strong sense of urgency when you’re writing it. A submit it now or die sort of feeling (slightly too dramatic?). You type your article in your Word document and paste it into your blog or website and it can be done in less than fifteen minutes. But with the advantages of a quick upload and instant potential global audience comes the disadvantages.
And in poor Emma’s case this is spelling... and grammar.
The most critical thing with online journalism is editing. Rereading your typed words and making sure they are coherent and spelt correctly. In Emma’s case I’m sure she was under a lot of pressure to have this story uploaded promptly and had a whole fashion cupboard full of returns waiting for her as well. And I am not perfect either (so close though, wouldn’t you agree?). I am sure there are numerous spelling and grammar errors throughout many of my posts. But the other great advantage of online journalism is I can change, fix, edit and update my posts as often as I like.
So this post was meant to be on the hardships models face in the industry, but quickly turned into a small scope on SOME of the advantages and disadvantages of online journalism.
So I’ll leave you with some cool photos of models facing those ‘hardships’ and the relevant articles, Facebook links etc.
Emma Ciufo's Grazia article
The Huffington Post article on model Chrystal Copland (which Emma clearly used for her 'research')
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