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?

They carry the weight of their parents’ fame like an albatross around the neck. If they succeed, whatever it may be, good for them.

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?

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

Anonymous wrote:She looks a little like Ivanka. Weird.

Yes, she does!

Anonymous wrote:you guys don't get it. wintour needed influencers to stay relevant, not the other way around.

I disagree. she needs influencers to be popular, not relevant. she would have remained relevant regardless.

She looks a little like Ivanka. Weird.

you guys don't get it. wintour needed influencers to stay relevant, not the other way around.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Meritocracy has failed miserably in the USA and it's nowhere more obvious than in the modeling world. [b]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...

No. It's nowhere more obvious than in competitive college admissions and corporate job placements.
Statistically speaking, there's still more 'no-name' models in the business than there are Klums, Leones and Emhoffs.

actually, it's nowhere more obvious than on the runway because there are photos of it plastered everywhere every day and you can see it clearly by merely looking at it. you don't need to have any background knowledge, or understand anything about the process. perhaps it is not statistically the most egregious (i don't know, and it's not like you provided any data), but it is the most obvious.

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

Anonymous wrote:Meritocracy has failed miserably in the USA and it's nowhere more obvious than in the modeling world. [b]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...

No. It's nowhere more obvious than in competitive college admissions and corporate job placements.
Statistically speaking, there's still more 'no-name' models in the business than there are Klums, Leones and Emhoffs.

It's not nepotism exactly, it's the brave new post-print media world. They are desperate to reach followers now that print Vogue has no readers.

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...