Nepotism on the Runway

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's pathetic that these kids' aspirations is to "model." look at helen christensen's son or elizabeth hurley's. ugh.

+1. If you have connections, why not use them for something meaningful or at least challenging?

They inherited good looks, not able to handle anything more challenging than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, why does the public support their brands?

The public was fascinated with John F. Kennedy, Jr. He wasn't a model, but it was his family tree the public was interested in.

Gwyneth Paltrow is Blythe Danner's daughter. Drew Barrymore came from a famous Hollywood family. Giada DeLaurentis has a famous grandfather.

The casting couch is also a real thing.

What is worse? Nepotism or sleeping your way to the top?

those brands aren't targeting the public, they are targeting the circles that their nepotistic hires already run in. It's good business on their part

[Anonymous]

Kamala Harris' step-daughter
Kardashian
Hadid
Crawford
Hamlin girls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kamala Harris' step-daughter
Kardashian
Hadid
Crawford
Hamlin girls

Lourdes (Madonna's daughter)

[Anonymous]

Kate Moss's daughter does not belong on the runway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, why does the public support their brands?

The public was fascinated with John F. Kennedy, Jr. He wasn't a model, but it was his family tree the public was interested in.

Gwyneth Paltrow is Blythe Danner's daughter. Drew Barrymore came from a famous Hollywood family. Giada DeLaurentis has a famous grandfather.

The casting couch is also a real thing.

What is worse? Nepotism or sleeping your way to the top?

That's a weird way to put it. Sleeping your way to the top is generally thought to be pretty harmful t the people who have to do the sleeping. See, ex, Harvey Weinstein's victims.

As for "nepotism" - another way to think of it is, it's the world someone grew up in, of course it's a natural path to pursue. My dad is a lawyer and so I went to law school because it's what I knew. If my parents had been actors I probably would have grown up knowing a lot of people in the entertainment business, so I'd have an in, plus I'd have some understanding of how that world worked. Of course that's the path I'd pursue. Especially if I were also really good at it, like Drew Barrymore and Gwynneth Paltrow.

How do you expect people to find their ways into showbiz? Show up at a soda shop and get plucked off their stool?

[Anonymous]

Kamala Harris' step-daughter??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kamala Harris' step-daughter??

The one who no one could stop talking about after the Inauguration, yes, someone who can attract that sort of attention gets hired to sell clothes.

[Anonymous]

This isn’t nepotism. After they spent a lot of time and money turning fashion models into celebrities they realized that it was cheaper and easier to use celebrity children, who are cheaper than regular celebrities but still generate press. This is the market at work, not nepotism.

[Anonymous]

It is way worse in Hollywood than in the Runway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, why does the public support their brands?

The public was fascinated with John F. Kennedy, Jr. He wasn't a model, but it was his family tree the public was interested in.

Gwyneth Paltrow is Blythe Danner's daughter. Drew Barrymore came from a famous Hollywood family. Giada DeLaurentis has a famous grandfather.

The casting couch is also a real thing.

What is worse? Nepotism or sleeping your way to the top?

That's a weird way to put it. Sleeping your way to the top is generally thought to be pretty harmful t the people who have to do the sleeping. See, ex, Harvey Weinstein's victims.

As for "nepotism" - another way to think of it is, it's the world someone grew up in, of course it's a natural path to pursue. My dad is a lawyer and so I went to law school because it's what I knew. If my parents had been actors I probably would have grown up knowing a lot of people in the entertainment business, so I'd have an in, plus I'd have some understanding of how that world worked. Of course that's the path I'd pursue. Especially if I were also really good at it, like Drew Barrymore and Gwynneth Paltrow.

How do you expect people to find their ways into showbiz? Show up at a soda shop and get plucked off their stool?

^^ A ‘la Lana Turner?? 💄

Talk about genuine L-U-C-K. ✨

Some models who come from famous families actually have the birthright of being born beautiful to shine on their own.
Specifically Kaia Gerber, GiGi + Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Lily Depp.
Even if they came from obscurity - these girls can definitely hold their own because they have that legitimate “it girl” factor that makes a great model.

However there are those that just don’t seem to fit what a typical model should look like.
I include Lourdes Leon (plus she has the worst disposition I have ever saw!), Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter, Heidi Klum’s daughter & Kylie Jenner (she was not BORN beautiful > her beauty is heavily manufactured.)

I think Paris Jackson is also a stunner.
Even if her Father was not the King of Pop she can definitely hold her own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, why does the public support their brands?

The public was fascinated with John F. Kennedy, Jr. He wasn't a model, but it was his family tree the public was interested in.

Gwyneth Paltrow is Blythe Danner's daughter. Drew Barrymore came from a famous Hollywood family. Giada DeLaurentis has a famous grandfather.

The casting couch is also a real thing.

What is worse? Nepotism or sleeping your way to the top?

That's a weird way to put it. Sleeping your way to the top is generally thought to be pretty harmful t the people who have to do the sleeping. See, ex, Harvey Weinstein's victims.

As for "nepotism" - another way to think of it is, it's the world someone grew up in, of course it's a natural path to pursue. My dad is a lawyer and so I went to law school because it's what I knew. If my parents had been actors I probably would have grown up knowing a lot of people in the entertainment business, so I'd have an in, plus I'd have some understanding of how that world worked. Of course that's the path I'd pursue. Especially if I were also really good at it, like Drew Barrymore and Gwynneth Paltrow.

How do you expect people to find their ways into showbiz? Show up at a soda shop and get plucked off their stool?

^^ A ‘la Lana Turner?? 💄

Talk about genuine L-U-C-K. ✨

Some models who come from famous families actually have the birthright of being born beautiful to shine on their own.
Specifically Kaia Gerber, GiGi + Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Lily Depp.
Even if they came from obscurity - these girls can definitely hold their own because they have that legitimate “it girl” factor that makes a great model.

However there are those that just don’t seem to fit what a typical model should look like.
I include Lourdes Leon (plus she has the worst disposition I have ever saw!), Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter, Heidi Klum’s daughter & Kylie Jenner (she was not BORN beautiful > her beauty is heavily manufactured.)

I think Paris Jackson is also a stunner.
Even if her Father was not the King of Pop she can definitely hold her own.

I'm the PP you're responding to - and yeah definitely there are some names in there who don't seem like GREAT models to me. But I'm also much older than any of them and I find most of what young people are doing to be pretty mystifying; it's to be expected I'd find their models and influencers a little puzzling, too. I have zero interest in the Kardashians and I barely know who Kendall Jenner is but I can also see why companies are turning to influencers with platforms to shill clothes, instead of just normal people who hit the genetic lottery, as you correctly put it.

It is this sort of back and forth where models became celebrities then celebrities became models now the kids of celebrities are models, and - I don't know. I still get my clothes off eBay because I don't have the $ to buy what they're selling. But I get why companies are trying out using the kids of famous people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's pathetic that these kids' aspirations is to "model." look at helen christensen's son or elizabeth hurley's. ugh.

+1. If you have connections, why not use them for something meaningful or at least challenging?

They inherited good looks, not able to handle anything more challenging than that.

but they didn’t do inherit their parents’ loooks, that the thing. I mean, most of them are attractive for sure but none of them are stunning 1 in a 100000 kind like their parent is. And we can all easily see it. I mean just read the comments section at newspaper carrying these photos and you will get a comment after comment saying this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's pathetic that these kids' aspirations is to "model." look at helen christensen's son or elizabeth hurley's. ugh.

+1. If you have connections, why not use them for something meaningful or at least challenging?

They inherited good looks, not able to handle anything more challenging than that.

but they didn’t do inherit their parents’ loooks, that the thing. I mean, most of them are attractive for sure but none of them are stunning 1 in a 100000 kind like their parent is. And we can all easily see it. I mean just read the comments section at newspaper carrying these photos and you will get a comment after comment saying this.

That is correct. They are attractive but the vast majority would not make the cut were it not for their parent’s fame. The only ones I see possibly having a shot are the Hadid sister and maybe Kaia Gerber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, why does the public support their brands?

The public was fascinated with John F. Kennedy, Jr. He wasn't a model, but it was his family tree the public was interested in.

Gwyneth Paltrow is Blythe Danner's daughter. Drew Barrymore came from a famous Hollywood family. Giada DeLaurentis has a famous grandfather.

The casting couch is also a real thing.

What is worse? Nepotism or sleeping your way to the top?

That's a weird way to put it. Sleeping your way to the top is generally thought to be pretty harmful t the people who have to do the sleeping. See, ex, Harvey Weinstein's victims.

As for "nepotism" - another way to think of it is, it's the world someone grew up in, of course it's a natural path to pursue. My dad is a lawyer and so I went to law school because it's what I knew. If my parents had been actors I probably would have grown up knowing a lot of people in the entertainment business, so I'd have an in, plus I'd have some understanding of how that world worked. Of course that's the path I'd pursue. Especially if I were also really good at it, like Drew Barrymore and Gwynneth Paltrow.

How do you expect people to find their ways into showbiz? Show up at a soda shop and get plucked off their stool?

^^ A ‘la Lana Turner?? 💄

Talk about genuine L-U-C-K. ✨

Some models who come from famous families actually have the birthright of being born beautiful to shine on their own.
Specifically Kaia Gerber, GiGi + Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Lily Depp.[b]
Even if they came from obscurity - these girls can definitely hold their own because they have that legitimate “it girl” factor that makes a great model.

However there are those that just don’t seem to fit what a typical model should look like.
I include Lourdes Leon (plus she has the worst disposition I have ever saw!), Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter, Heidi Klum’s daughter & Kylie Jenner (she was not BORN beautiful > her beauty is heavily manufactured.)

I think Paris Jackson is also a stunner.
Even if her Father was not the King of Pop she can definitely hold her own.

Lily Depp is 5'3", in what world would she be considered a fashion model? I agree with everything else.