“We believe that models, like all workers, deserve to be paid for their work,” Ms. Sara Ziff, an American model and filmmaker, recently initiated the Model Alliance to protect and enforce models by devising a Models’ Bill of Rights. Some are unpaid or paid only with clothes, and some find themselves in debt - which makes them vulnerable to predation. However, even here in the United States, it’s astonishing how vulnerable young models are to exploitation. The portfolio of this young model from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk contains shoots for world-famous brands. Indeed, some young Russian models find international success - as evidenced on the catwalks of New York Fashion Week. In the fashion world, Alisa Samsonova is described as an angel. Russian model Zhenya Katava wears all black, a red Chanel purse, and red and white Adidas sneakers after the Dolce & Gabbana show at Metropol during the Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2016/17 on Februin Milan, Italy. Masha’s fate is currently unknown our recent efforts to contact her have not been successful, but her Facebook page suggests she is still an aspiring model. Street Style: February 28 - Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2016/17. Arbaugh initially approached us and suggested we make a film, which became a feature-length documentary, “Girl Model.” She wrote to us: “I have been traveling and documenting in Russia and Ukraine the journey of these young girls that become prostitutes and fashion models, or the foggy lines that exist between both.” Our feature documentary, from which this Op-Doc is adapted, traverses these foggy lines. When we filmed Masha in 2009, the scouts said that these girls - often poor in a society of extreme income inequality - are desirable not just for their looks but because they are malleable and easier to guide and direct. T hey meet in secret to avoid the protesters, the. The Op-Doc also introduces Ashley Arbaugh, a former American model turned international model scout, who seeks out teenagers with her Russian comrades. We visit the bling-filled frontline of childrens beauty pageants. Rural Siberia is a thriving location for scouts hoping to recruit teenage girls as young as 12 and export them overseas. New Yorkers know André Saraiva as the rainmaker behind clubs like Le Baron, Le Bain, and a brightly burning 2012 fashion week pop-up with André Balazs called, obviously, Chez André. Sometimes hundreds of girls audition at these model castings other times a few dozen show up. Prosecutors said they seized hundreds, and possibly thousands, of sexually suggestive pictures of nude or partially nude young women and girls during a search of Epstein’s Manhattan. In this Op-Doc video we present Masha, a 13-year-old aspiring model who attends an open casting call in Siberia, Russia.
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