“The young models, seated at almost every table, whose names are yet unknown. They don’t speak the language. They don’t know the ropes…They know nothing about the history of the business or the relentless march of ravaged casualties who preceded them…they look wide eyed at one another, wondering if they’ll be the next big thing, swilling Cristal champagne with a rock star boyfriend…They dance with the silver haired men, wondering which one, if any, will give them their big break. They see the menu but not the agenda. The music pounds, the champagne flows. There is brimstone in the air along with Poisen and Obsession and Vendetta. It is the smell of a factory that feeds on young girls.”

The more things change, the more they remain the same. Today’s models are much better behaved than the ‘Supes’ were, says one agency owner ‘nobody will say she wouldn’t get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars today’…Yet hope springs eternal in the muck. ‘There still is a mafia’ says Barbara Pilling, a model who owns her own boutique agency, Edge…’There are still scuzzy agents and playboys and money made from illicit means. But very slowly, the glamour will come  back. The desire is still there.’

We highly recommend this book. It is “THE” definitive work — an essential read for anyone interested in the unholy relationship between modeling agencies and the beautiful young women who are fashion’s “boots on the ground”.

-Ernest Schmatolla

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