THE IGBO GIANT STRIDES AGAINST ALL ODDS
9 years ago
· Did you know that 72% of
females who aspire to be part of the Fashion Industry end up in the Sex
Industry instead?
Yes, every now and them we see hordes of teens jumping from one audition to the other, hoping to make it big in the fashion industry. But the end result for most of them is usually dashed hopes and broken promises. The question then is: what is that actually makes the fashion industry so dangerous to these unsuspecting teens sincerely desirous of just pursuing a career? Also, what kind of impact does the fashion industry have on the numerous other teens out there who constantly follow the trends in the industry?
Young girls look to celebrities and/or models when trying to figure out fashion. They see what is dished out to them from the media or from in-person events. They don't understand that much of what celebrities wear is worn specifically for the publicity. Some even for shock value just to get into the forefront of the public eye. They see models with unrealistic body shapes and think that to be beautiful and successful they too have to be unhealthily thin. They don't know how many models are throwing up the only calories their bodies receive on a daily basis. They don't understand that celebrities that are dressing in body-hugging clothes and see-through tops are purposefully dressing that way because sex sells. Girls are so obsessed with being popular and accepted that they are trying to bypass being a girl and instead are trying to rush into being a woman. They aren't even getting the chance to figure out for themselves the stupidity of celebrities who spend a good sum of money walking in 9" stilettos or shoes without heels all for the sake of publicity. It is obvious that the celebrity is just hiding behind the same insecurity that the little girls have about being accepted and loved for who they are. For the record, people with real talent do not need to hide behind the facade of fashion absurdity.
But in an interview with WWD following her launch as the new face of Hugo Boss’s new scent, Jour Pour Femme, Gwyneth Paltrow gushed about why being a model is a perfect job for a mom. The mother of two explained that with only being able to do only one film a year, modeling gives her the opportunity to still travel and make work connections, but over the course of a few days rather than a few months. When she’s not doing 2-hour workouts, responding to emails and toiling away at her e-commerce website Goop, Gwen gets to escort her kids to and from school, fix them breakfast, help them with homework and take them to their various extracurricular. Who better to show us how to be a domestic goddess than the World’s Most Beautiful Woman?
Gwyneth Paltrow is the face of Hugo Boss's latest scent, Jour Pour Femme, the daytime counterpart for its Nuit Pour Femme fragrance, which she also fronts. In an interview with WWD, Paltrow gushes about how great it is to have a job that only requires a few days of her time. "I always say this, but it really is such a perfect job when you have kids." Or a perfect job in general! She continues:
I can only really do one film a year now because of my family and how it all works out, so it’s so nice for me to be able to work for a great company and, you know, I’m going to Spain next week for two days so I still get to travel and meet really interesting people and have a work interaction. But it’s not like I am out of the house for three months.
No, it's not like that at all. Obviously, Paltrow has lots of other commitments, too, like Goop and working out, so it's not like she just lounges around all day eating macrobiotic bonbons. Indeed, she even narrates a "day in the life" of her schedule, which is obviously fascinating:
I wake up at 7 a.m., I get [the kids] fed, and I get them dressed in their uniforms, any bits of homework are finished... [Then] I take them to school. She [Apple, now 9] gets dropped off at 8:25 a.m., and he [Moses, now 7] gets dropped off at 8:45 a.m., so we have a croissant together in his school dining room and we do reading together. Then I go home and I work for one hour on all the e-mails that come in overnight from L.A. Then I exercise from about 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Then I work on Goop [the digital media and e-commerce company she founded] pretty much the rest of the day until I pick up my kids and then they have various activities.
Note that the ratio of hours spent on e-mails to hours spent working out is 1:2. That explains so much.
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