Imam Siddique
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay
DOB: Born 1962
Ethnicity: Indian
Occupation: Reality star, fashion designer, stylist
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Why I Quit Fashion
By Rachel Rebibo
In 90% of fashion editorials for magazines, everyone on the team is either paid next to nothing or NOTHING AT ALL.
Fashion editorials are essentially free branded content for billionaire parent companies which own the luxury designers that advertise in magazines.
Fashion magazines “claim” to have no money when they ask you to work for free, but that’s not entirely true. They do have money. They just usually spend it all on a totally baller photo shoot somewhere terribly remote and glamorous, then tell everyone else contributing to that issue that they have no budget. Editors will kindly inform you that of course there is no money for this shoot, then turn around and fly to fashion weeks around the world, happily gramming their $10,000 first class seats.
There’s something deeply psychologically manipulative about telling people that they should be so thrilled to have the opportunity to work with (insert magazine) that expecting to be compensated for said work is ridiculous.
Why on earth would so many of us would put up with this system? Because in theory the exposure you receive from shooting editorials and magazine covers is supposed to eventually lead to big bucks from massive advertising campaigns with swanky luxury brands.
Just recently I received an email from a Vogue (I won’t say which one but it’s big and European), where the editor asked permission to use an image of mine “for credit,” meaning that instead of paying me, they will simply include my name next to my photograph.
Credit doesn’t pay my rent, Vogue.
This shouldn’t need to be said, but if you are making money off of someone else’s work, you need to pay them for that work. Period.
Read the whole article: https://rachelrebibo.medium.com/why-i-quit-fashion-c2eef9f3066c
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Some Portraits from Miu Miu by Julie Greve and Lotta Volkova - (2019 collection)
A quotation from the Miu Miu site about the details of the portraits:
“…It’s easy to tell someone to be themselves in front of a camera, but it’s not necessarily so easy to figure out how to be yourself in front of a camera. It’s like having an invisible mirror in front of you. You become very aware of yourself and of your own ‘image’….”
A link to the whole thing:
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American Vogue May 2001
Editorial: She's So Money
Photographer: Mario Testino
Fashion Editor: Grace Coddington
Hair: Michael Boadi
Make-Up: Val Garland
Models: Caroline Ribeiro and Marcelle Bittar
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Vogue Germany March 2014
Photographer: Mario Testino
Stylist: Lori Goldstein
Models: Jeneil Williams, Melodie Monrose, Ajak Deng, Ataui Deng, Cora Emanuel, Anais Mali & Grace Bol
Make-Up: James Kaliardos
Hair: Orlando Pita
Nails: Fleury Rose
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