fm: there were made a record number of shots for mega-short stretch of time at your shooting. and all the shots are above the average level. there were no failures and accidental genius shots. the model-photographer mariana was spirited in pressing the button at all the right moments and you were always offering something.tanya: really it was one of the most difficult shootings in my life. i realized how important the photographer is and how much he helps. the photographer always suggests, but I hadn`t noticed and realized it before. this was taken for granted. he says “take your hand away and turn it the other way”. and work goes on, we make another shot. but this time mariana and i did everything intuitively.fm: who is your favorite photographer?tanya: steven meisel.fm: you didn`t surprise. do you like shows or shootings more?tanya: i adore the shows.fm: does nervousness appear often?tanya: of course, every time. when models are already lined up and the music plays, they begin to dance while standing before the entering. draw attention on it. it seems to be a kind of psychological relax.fm: did you come to fashion by yourself or were you found at the street?tanya: i was found at the street, and this story is trite – my friend dragged me to the casting. i have never wanted to become a model but she did. i kept her company, as a result i was taken but she wasn`t. i`m occupied with sports professionally, i`m master of sports in volleyball.fm: few words to girls who dream to become models.tanya: first of all, it`s not as easy as it seems to be from the outside. and when you reach a certain level, it becomes even more difficult. it has its own policy. you should be on good terms with bookers. you have to get show-packages from the agency. this is your right to go to the casting. from 15 to 30 percents of models get it in paris and milan. but it is not a guarantee that you would score a success in these castings.fm: what the rest should do?tanya: they can do the other work. there are many catalogues and look-books during the fashion shows. yes, you can find some work, but naturally if you don`t take part in the shows, your career would be out of the enquiry. model that doesn`t take part in the shows of good designers can`t develop more. after all, what is very important for career – the magazines and runways are important for it. as usual, the career is made in europe and new-york and then model goes to earn money to asia. models work on direct-books in such countries as germany and spain. she doesn`t need always to be there as in fashion capitals. she arrives to do a certain job, earns money and leaves. you can`t earn big money in europe. because big campaigns with great names don`t bring much money to you. that counts as advertisement for you. you can get the nominal sum of money for the magazines. it`s like a bonus. earnings are on catalogues and look-books.fm: well, and where can model get a solid financial success?tanya: cosmetic companies pay a lot. there are enough of such cosmetic brands in new-york. jewellery companies pay well too. but the average model doesn`t have incredible earnings.fm: are you the average one?tanya: yes. as for me, i`m completely satisfied with my success.fm: probably, as many models, you don`t like to do catalogues…tanya: well, of course. i think that nobody likes to do the catalogues. but the pay for them is well.fm: and let`s classify the types of photoworks according to models` desire!tanya: if in an ascending order, they are: the catalogue, the look-book, the shooting for uninteresting magazines, the campaign, the shooting for the interesting magazines.fm: fashion is comparable to the elite sport.tanya: that`s right. one day of the life of in-demand model: fashion week, you arrive, for example, to paris from milan, you have a day or two before the show. you do about 20-25 castings a day.fm: in different places...tanya: ...you don`t always get a driver! you have 25 places a day, and if you take fancy, you are asked to try on something, to take your photo in each place. then when you have got a certain number of shows, you have a call-time at 6 a.m. – you have to be at the show or at the preparation for the show. shows usually start at 9.30-10.00. chanel usually starts at ten or eleven, and it`s normally. shows are till the evening but you aren`t free even at night. you go and do your trying on at the 1 p.m. and have the same system at the morning. and you realize that this girl have arrived from the other city, where the same situation took place.fm: tendencies for the model type.tanya: there was fashion for aliens yesterday, but the today chooses the quiet faces without bright features. just ordinary girls. if we walk down the street, we wouldn`t notice them! let`s see what happens tomorrow!fm: they are searched for at the streets. and what if you will search among those who have already started their work, but did not show themselves?tanya: of course! even those who have not already shown themselves and are in the hole were founded somewhere at the street. or they came by themselves. but it often happens that they were founded. the scouts conduct castings, go to the interiors, find the unique girls and bring them to paris, for example. and so on.fm: why is there still the trend of finding and offering and suggesting the people from the street who can`t carry on a dialogue, but not of taking the psychologically prepared girl who knocks at the agency?tanya: because too many want, you know... naturally there is the big amount of those who so desire. but today we should really choose the fashionable ones, what designers want to see. Even among from these “chosen” there are girls who don`t have good job and are in arrears. and there are too many of these “chosen” and they are cool!fm: the demand of a model is a matter of luck or of personal qualities?tanya: it`s the ability to recommend yourself at the first opportunity. the scouts see the great number of girls and they say, that girl which enters the room and fills it with herself would be chosen. that is, that this girl stands out from others. she may be worse than other form point of her appearance qualities, but she stands out thanks to her energy and mood. it`s important! when you come to milan casting and see 100 or 200 of people in the line – it`s naturally that all these faces can`t be seen. you need to differ with something.fm: you can`t stand out thanks to individual style, because models are without make-up and wear casting clothes or swimsuit at the casting. behavior and energy remain. is it your inner feeling?tanya: sure! i do know it from my own. for example, i wake up in the morning and have a bad mood – i go to castings and don`t take anyone.fm: is everything really working in such a way?tanya: =) well, yes! but if i wake up and have a good mood, clients see that.fm: that is, energy brings job – is not even an assumption, but the fact.tanya: sure.fm: but many beginners and people who are out of fashion think, that appearance is the only factor.tanya: appearance is not the only factor. undoubtedly, appearance plays an important role, but… there are many female models, each of them is interesting in her own way, each of them has her own beauty. they have passed million castings before. that is, fashion capitals don`t have just girls from the streets. that`s why you have to stand out!
fm: there were made a record number of shots for mega-short stretch of time at your shooting. and all the shots are above the average level. there were no failures and accidental genius shots. the model-photographer mariana was spirited in pressing the button at all the right moments and you were always offering something.tanya: really it was one of the most difficult shootings in my life. i realized how important the photographer is and how much he helps. the photographer always suggests, but I hadn`t noticed and realized it before. this was taken for granted. he says “take your hand away and turn it the other way”. and work goes on, we make another shot. but this time mariana and i did everything intuitively.fm: who is your favorite photographer?tanya: steven meisel.fm: you didn`t surprise. do you like shows or shootings more?tanya: i adore the shows.fm: does nervousness appear often?tanya: of course, every time. when models are already lined up and the music plays, they begin to dance while standing before the entering. draw attention on it. it seems to be a kind of psychological relax.fm: did you come to fashion by yourself or were you found at the street?tanya: i was found at the street, and this story is trite – my friend dragged me to the casting. i have never wanted to become a model but she did. i kept her company, as a result i was taken but she wasn`t. i`m occupied with sports professionally, i`m master of sports in volleyball.fm: few words to girls who dream to become models.tanya: first of all, it`s not as easy as it seems to be from the outside. and when you reach a certain level, it becomes even more difficult. it has its own policy. you should be on good terms with bookers. you have to get show-packages from the agency. this is your right to go to the casting. from 15 to 30 percents of models get it in paris and milan. but it is not a guarantee that you would score a success in these castings.fm: what the rest should do?tanya: they can do the other work. there are many catalogues and look-books during the fashion shows. yes, you can find some work, but naturally if you don`t take part in the shows, your career would be out of the enquiry. model that doesn`t take part in the shows of good designers can`t develop more. after all, what is very important for career – the magazines and runways are important for it. as usual, the career is made in europe and new-york and then model goes to earn money to asia. models work on direct-books in such countries as germany and spain. she doesn`t need always to be there as in fashion capitals. she arrives to do a certain job, earns money and leaves. you can`t earn big money in europe. because big campaigns with great names don`t bring much money to you. that counts as advertisement for you. you can get the nominal sum of money for the magazines. it`s like a bonus. earnings are on catalogues and look-books.fm: well, and where can model get a solid financial success?tanya: cosmetic companies pay a lot. there are enough of such cosmetic brands in new-york. jewellery companies pay well too. but the average model doesn`t have incredible earnings.fm: are you the average one?tanya: yes. as for me, i`m completely satisfied with my success.fm: probably, as many models, you don`t like to do catalogues…tanya: well, of course. i think that nobody likes to do the catalogues. but the pay for them is well.fm: and let`s classify the types of photoworks according to models` desire!tanya: if in an ascending order, they are: the catalogue, the look-book, the shooting for uninteresting magazines, the campaign, the shooting for the interesting magazines.fm: fashion is comparable to the elite sport.tanya: that`s right. one day of the life of in-demand model: fashion week, you arrive, for example, to paris from milan, you have a day or two before the show. you do about 20-25 castings a day.fm: in different places...tanya: ...you don`t always get a driver! you have 25 places a day, and if you take fancy, you are asked to try on something, to take your photo in each place. then when you have got a certain number of shows, you have a call-time at 6 a.m. – you have to be at the show or at the preparation for the show. shows usually start at 9.30-10.00. chanel usually starts at ten or eleven, and it`s normally. shows are till the evening but you aren`t free even at night. you go and do your trying on at the 1 p.m. and have the same system at the morning. and you realize that this girl have arrived from the other city, where the same situation took place.fm: tendencies for the model type.tanya: there was fashion for aliens yesterday, but the today chooses the quiet faces without bright features. just ordinary girls. if we walk down the street, we wouldn`t notice them! let`s see what happens tomorrow!fm: they are searched for at the streets. and what if you will search among those who have already started their work, but did not show themselves?tanya: of course! even those who have not already shown themselves and are in the hole were founded somewhere at the street. or they came by themselves. but it often happens that they were founded. the scouts conduct castings, go to the interiors, find the unique girls and bring them to paris, for example. and so on.fm: why is there still the trend of finding and offering and suggesting the people from the street who can`t carry on a dialogue, but not of taking the psychologically prepared girl who knocks at the agency?tanya: because too many want, you know... naturally there is the big amount of those who so desire. but today we should really choose the fashionable ones, what designers want to see. Even among from these “chosen” there are girls who don`t have good job and are in arrears. and there are too many of these “chosen” and they are cool!fm: the demand of a model is a matter of luck or of personal qualities?tanya: it`s the ability to recommend yourself at the first opportunity. the scouts see the great number of girls and they say, that girl which enters the room and fills it with herself would be chosen. that is, that this girl stands out from others. she may be worse than other form point of her appearance qualities, but she stands out thanks to her energy and mood. it`s important! when you come to milan casting and see 100 or 200 of people in the line – it`s naturally that all these faces can`t be seen. you need to differ with something.fm: you can`t stand out thanks to individual style, because models are without make-up and wear casting clothes or swimsuit at the casting. behavior and energy remain. is it your inner feeling?tanya: sure! i do know it from my own. for example, i wake up in the morning and have a bad mood – i go to castings and don`t take anyone.fm: is everything really working in such a way?tanya: =) well, yes! but if i wake up and have a good mood, clients see that.fm: that is, energy brings job – is not even an assumption, but the fact.tanya: sure.fm: but many beginners and people who are out of fashion think, that appearance is the only factor.tanya: appearance is not the only factor. undoubtedly, appearance plays an important role, but… there are many female models, each of them is interesting in her own way, each of them has her own beauty. they have passed million castings before. that is, fashion capitals don`t have just girls from the streets. that`s why you have to stand out!
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