after recent accounts of drug-taking amongst teenage models. In the care of their model agencies, the catwalk world has once again come under public scrutiny. Jess Hallett used to be booker, talking bookings for models, organizing their itineraries and generally running their lices. She talks about the leaths she went to in order to protect her girls. While bad behaviour in the modelling world evidently exisits, there are many in the fashion industry who work very hard to try and make sure it doesn't. I spent almost ten years as a booker, and became emolionally involved with almost every girls in my care. Bookers care for and protect these young models to such a point that they are pften too tired a the end of the day even to go home. We did all kinds of things for our girls. _______ Sometimes we had to talk to them and cheer them up even when they did get the job they wanted; such as the cover of Italian "Vogue" or Chanel show in Paris. They were terrifid they were going to do it badly and the booker would reassure them and tell them thay looked fantastic. The trend of using girls as young as 14 or 15 means a lot of responsibility. The consequeces of not taking good care of them are too huge for any agency to consider. ____ Backstage at any show in New York, Paris or Milan you see bookers from all over the world, there to support their girls and make sure that another agency doesn't try to attract them with a better contact. I'll never forget the time when Charles de Gaulle airport was losed down because of a strike and kate Moss has to get to Paris for a very important job. The Chanel Tunnel hadn't been built then, so I flew with her to Brussels with the idea of getting the train from there. ______ The whole journey took 12 hours, but with a studio full of people waiting for her at the other end, we had no choice. One danger we had to protect models from was thei parents.____ It was quite clear that she was humiliated by his behaviour and wasn't at all interested in being a model. Ther were some parents who would let their daughter go alone to fashion shoots if it meant fame and fartune._______ At the model agency where I worked, parents were usually encouraged to get involved in their daughters' careers and travelled with them whenever they could. The fact is that the majority of girls love the lifestyle. _______ The Russin model Lida egirova told me recently how happy she was, working with creative and talented people. She was weathly and living in Paris; and the night before she had mel Madonna at a party. What more could any girls want? Đang cần gấp mn người, ai lm nhanh đung, vote 5 sao + ctlhn