Attitude, Attitude, Attitude

I am watching Britain's Next and I am always set back by the attitude that says: "I will not change." Oh dear, that is the ONE thing you will have to do constantly, if you are looking to be a Top Model. The business is nothing, if not ALL about change. Pliable and you are going to have to become BEST FRIENDS.

Quick responses to what the photographer wants are what reduces costs, when on set . When in front of a camera, you should hear a click after every pose. If he's not clicking, it's because you aren't. Something different with each click, even if it is slight. Your task is to give them as many good frames to work with as possible. You must become a very good actress. It's why the professions of acting/modeling overlap. If you are not willing to change for the sake of the job, in front of the camera, then you are in the wrong business.

That being said please always remember that being pliable on set should never include inappropriate requests being made.

Patrick and Lori

Patrick Demarchelier

I love his romance with "REAL"

It really is NOT about what others think about your height or anything else you think is WRONG with you or what others say, it is only how YOU feel that gets transmitted to "out there".

Teaching that lesson was done really well with the girls being "judged" by the general public, who have NO vested interest in holding back with opinions.

And Patrick Demarchelier, comes to the shoot with the fabulous Lori Goldstein and BOTH of them are SO comfortable in their own skin that you almost forget who they are. I am sooo glad to see that the "stylists" are getting some face time on this round. We are getting to see that there are many different "talents" on set during a shoot, all of them with sooo much to offer the aspiring model. These two are so good at what they do, that you relax into the advice they give. The both exude a real love for themselves and what they do, the two are seamless. That is what feeds the air the girls have to learn in for the time of the shoot. It almost doesn't matter WHAT makes these professionals so comfortable, whether it's experience, power, or control, but they do not care what the model thinks of THEM. This is not expressed or experienced in a way that degrades. Real doesn't need to go there. And "real" is exactly what the girls needed to bring to the shoot on the street, paired up with one of the other girls and a guy. Chelsea nearly "lost" it when she had a hard time getting past her own self-consciousness around Patrick, during the solo shot, to SELL the products in the shot. THAT was/is the ENTIRE reason for the shoot! Remember, the "spark" in the eyes that Tyra calls for comes from EMOTION. If your focus is on frozen fear, that is what gets captured. Kendal really did do a fabulous job.

Why the Brazilian girls?

Well, let me tell you what I think about that! The girls of Brazil have REALLY burst onto the modeling scene in the last little while. We all look and with most of the Brazilian girls, we go, Wow! SHE really is beautiful! Why? What is it? The water? The sun? The culture? It is, at points, all of those things. The one common denominator that MUST be present, and is greatly lacking, especially in North American girls, is REAL confidence front of a camera, naked! There, I said it! Yes. The barest of clothing by most standards. I think every model aught to get herself to Brazil at least once, as she is learning about the business. Go work with people who do not see the body as something to be hidden. Real comfort with the body, looks beautiful!