Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vreeland now finds herself above the battle, and just now the modeling business finds itself involved in an entertaining squabble. It began last summer when Johnny Casablancas, a fast-moving Frenchman who owns the largest model agency in Paris, set up shop in New York, where there are an estimated 800 models at work. Eileen Ford and Wilhelmina, heads of the two largest New York agencies, say that he had assured them that he would not invade. But invade he did, and he also hired Ford's financial controller and two of her top booking agents. Ford retaliated with...
Eileen Ford, still the most successful model agent by far, is either motherly or tyrannical, depending on the viewpoint. Tiegs, who is Ford's client on the East Coast, has no complaints and probably should have none, considering that her income, largely earned through Ford, has been estimated at $300,000 a year. But Ford is not universally popular says a fashion photographer with satisfaction: "Now she's up against a businessman who's taking her best talent...
Bitchiness seems to be a constant in the $25 million-a-year model biz, despite (or perhaps even because of) the fact that the financial rewards are rapidly increasing. Television has made a big difference; a top model will get $1,000 a day for shooting a commercial, and then twice that for each 13-week cycle the commercial runs, so that in a 21-month period she will make $15,000 for one day's work. There are other changes too. Highly paid "image girls" like Tiegs, whose faces become associated with several specific products, have come into fashion...
Soon she was doing cover work for True Romance and Teen mag azines. That soon slides past the hard work of learning to be a model. "I would look at those photos of Jean Shrimpton flying across the pages of Vogue and I'd try to fly across my room," Tiegs says...
Cheryl was enrolled as an English major at Cal State, in Los Angeles, when Glamour magazine packed her off to the Virgin Islands with Ali MacGraw, then a star model, to shoot a cover. "She was so nice to me," says Tiegs now. "I had brought all the wrong clothes...