Nepotism on the Runway

[Anonymous]

Heidi Klum daughter not model material by any stretch. Way too short.

Kate Moss was her height - but this girl is just so plain.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally agree, OP! I remember how exciting it was when 90s icons like Cindy Crawford or Laetitia Casta would emerge from obscurity and capture something in the zeitgeist. So many girls from tiny towns in Brazil, Poland, Somalia shifting the fashion needle. Now it’s all kids of celebs: kaia, gigi, kendall and those sad hamlin girls. I think Anna have them too much of a platform early on and everyone else followed

yes, I remember when Natalia Vodianova showed up with her story of selling fruit as a young girl growing up in some terrible place in Russia with a disabled sister, for which she was bullied.

and yes I agree that Anna started it by making the kardashians a major player in the fashion world.

Apropos Natalia Vodianova, a bona fide fashion royalty...guess whose son is walking for Balmain?



Was there ever a mother who looked younger than her son?

I will ask the question that everyone is asking - why must all these kids be models? Why aren't they interested in other professions?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The good part about all the obvious nepotism is that when there is someone truly new, they just shine. For instance, Anok Yai, who is astonishing to watch.

I also love people who start modeling because they are awesome elsewhere, like Amanda Gorman. I am not sure I could be a bigger fangirl of Tomi Adeyemi.

They just shine next to the boring nepotism models.

wait Tomi Adeyemi is modeling now?

Not formally yet, but she just signed CAA and you can see her dressed amazingly for things like the Met Gala. She looks spectacular.

https://deadline.com/2021/11/caa-tomi-champion-adeyemi-1234877804/

[Anonymous]

I will ask the question that everyone is asking - why must all these kids be models? Why aren't they interested in other professions?

They might be interested in other professions, but realistically it's an exciting job that pays crazy amount of money, connects you to other creatives and opens many doors. Imagine someone offering you $10K a day to shoot on a beautiful location with all expenses covered and offering this over and over again...what would you do?

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I will ask the question that everyone is asking - why must all these kids be models? Why aren't they interested in other professions?

They might be interested in other professions, but realistically it's an exciting job that pays crazy amount of money, connects you to other creatives and opens many doors. Imagine someone offering you $10K a day to shoot on a beautiful location with all expenses covered and offering this over and over again...what would you do?

Well, Vodianova’s son is majoring in economics at Brown. He just played fashion for a bit.

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Anonymous wrote:Meritocracy has failed miserably in the USA and it's nowhere more obvious than in the modeling world. Every day there comes another average looking/cuteish young female with famous parents, supposedly a model. Eve Jobs (Steve Job's daughter) is now a model, too, and she is just so stiff and unnatural, just looking at her is painful. A few days ago it was Heidi Klum's daughter, short, average, not ugly but so obviously not model material. And on and on...

Let poor little Eve have her moment...
Also, are you legitimately concerned about this? Is Eve taking your job?

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Anonymous wrote:The good part about all the obvious nepotism is that when there is someone truly new, they just shine. For instance, Anok Yai, who is astonishing to watch.

I also love people who start modeling because they are awesome elsewhere, like Amanda Gorman. I am not sure I could be a bigger fangirl of Tomi Adeyemi.

They just shine next to the boring nepotism models.

wait Tomi Adeyemi is modeling now?

Not formally yet, but she just signed CAA and you can see her dressed amazingly for things like the Met Gala. She looks spectacular.

https://deadline.com/2021/11/caa-tomi-champion-adeyemi-1234877804/

I don't think that's a modeling deal - I think she's signed as her literary/film representation. Not that she doesn't look incredible - she does. I could be wrong!

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Anonymous wrote:Meritocracy has failed miserably in the USA and it's nowhere more obvious than in the modeling world. Every day there comes another average looking/cuteish young female with famous parents, supposedly a model. Eve Jobs (Steve Job's daughter) is now a model, too, and she is just so stiff and unnatural, just looking at her is painful. A few days ago it was Heidi Klum's daughter, short, average, not ugly but so obviously not model material. And on and on...

Let poor little Eve have her moment...
Also, are you legitimately concerned about this? Is Eve taking your job?

New person, but this might be the first (and only) time anyone ever referred to Eve Jobs as "poor"! lol

[Anonymous]

what is also perplexing is some of them admit to haing anxiety and prespcription drug issues -- i think one of the hadids and one of the hamlins. don't go into an industry which encourages drug use and focuses on looks, which only encourages more anxiety.

yeah, lourdes leon....bless her heart.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally agree, OP! I remember how exciting it was when 90s icons like Cindy Crawford or Laetitia Casta would emerge from obscurity and capture something in the zeitgeist. So many girls from tiny towns in Brazil, Poland, Somalia shifting the fashion needle. Now it’s all kids of celebs: kaia, gigi, kendall and those sad hamlin girls. I think Anna have them too much of a platform early on and everyone else followed

yes, I remember when Natalia Vodianova showed up with her story of selling fruit as a young girl growing up in some terrible place in Russia with a disabled sister, for which she was bullied.

and yes I agree that Anna started it by making the kardashians a major player in the fashion world.

Apropos Natalia Vodianova, a bona fide fashion royalty...guess whose son is walking for Balmain?



Was there ever a mother who looked younger than her son?

I will ask the question that everyone is asking - why must all these kids be models? Why aren't they interested in other professions?

Because it's one of the few (only?) industries in which you need neither talent nor brains to be successful.

[Anonymous]

Her kid is good looking and SO Slavic in his facial features.

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Iris Law is gorgeous.

[Anonymous]

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Iris Law is gorgeous.

She is! She's got it.

[Anonymous]

Was there ever a mother who looked younger than her son?

I will ask the question that everyone is asking - why must all these kids be models? Why aren't they interested in other professions?

Because it's one of the few (only?) industries in which you need neither talent nor brains to be successful.

Well, beauty IS their talent. When it's real it's as rare as some other talents or brains. Not talking about celebrity kids but the industry you have such a low opinion about.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally agree, OP! I remember how exciting it was when 90s icons like Cindy Crawford or Laetitia Casta would emerge from obscurity and capture something in the zeitgeist. So many girls from tiny towns in Brazil, Poland, Somalia shifting the fashion needle. Now it’s all kids of celebs: kaia, gigi, kendall and those sad hamlin girls. I think Anna have them too much of a platform early on and everyone else followed

yes, I remember when Natalia Vodianova showed up with her story of selling fruit as a young girl growing up in some terrible place in Russia with a disabled sister, for which she was bullied.

and yes I agree that Anna started it by making the kardashians a major player in the fashion world.

Apropos Natalia Vodianova, a bona fide fashion royalty...guess whose son is walking for Balmain?



Was there ever a mother who looked younger than her son?

I will ask the question that everyone is asking - why must all these kids be models? Why aren't they interested in other professions?

Because it's one of the few (only?) industries in which you need neither talent nor brains to be successful.

but you need (or needed) beauty and they don't have it. i.e. they have as much beauty to be models as brains to be lawyers or business savvy to be businessmen or women.