Welcome to Season 3, my Degenerate Angels! It’s SO good to be back - and thanks to casting help from @deuxmoi, with a vengeance. This week, we’re telling ALL about the Modeling Industry.

Our contributors are or were signed in LA, London, Miami, Milan, New York, Paris, Seattle, and Texas, and represented by well-known agencies such as One Management, Genetics, Heffner, Next, Select, and Women (plus some others I’ve been asked not to name). They tell equally juicy and shocking stories about:

-what it’s like behind the scenes at Fashion Week & Miami Swim Week 

-working for controversial brands like American Apparel and Yeezy

-lesser-known but higher paying sectors of the industry, like e-comm and fit modeling

-the harsh realities of diet + exercise routines (maintaining 35 inch hips!!)

-model houses, club promoters, and international ‘yachting’ trips

-loneliness and depression brought on by working abroad

-agency debt, and what success ACTUALLY looks like

Plus, on the record, we have agent Jane Belfry (@janebelfry) from BTWN Management breaking down the “body positivity movement” and model-turned-badass musician Dana Dentata (@danadentata) serving honest insight on everything from industry hyper-sexualization to working with icons like Ryan McGinley and Juergen Teller.

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