WHAT TO DO IF THEY SAY YOU ARE NOT OF THE COUNTRY'S FORMAT

Valentina Papariga:

Hello to everyone
Guys, i need your advice. My portfolio is continuously rejected just because i don't fit in the format of the country's magazines, as they say. PLEASE, check up my portfolio! WHAT COUNTRY AM I SUITABLE FOR?

Valentina Papariga:

But, as they told me, it was because of my bust size. In my country the "wanted" models are those who have large breasts.

Orsiris Pte Ltd:

Where are you based currently? Attached to any agency?

What's your focus in modeling? Is it fashion, editorials/advertorials, runways, commercial, acting etc?

You probably need to develop your folio to match your aspiration in your area of interests.

Valentina Papariga:

Спасибо если честно, не думала, что волосы имеут такое значение (их ведь всегда можно перекрасить и отростить). Жаль, конечно, что мне сделали такие фотографии. Странно только одно - ведь фотограф тоже проиграл на этом, о мог выиграть. Разве он этого не видел?

Alena N:

Hello, Alex Alexander! U are wellcome. U translated my russian,right?
I mean that impossible to work with short hairs anywhere, if u aspiring model, not famous.
Because bookers and clients prefer clean look and image, so thye can change it!
Difficult to change, if it already done.

Valentina Papariga:

Definitely, not a secret. To "Maxim", "VIP", "Ego", "Vogue". Actually, it was the photographer who took the photos to these agencies. ..

Valentina Papariga:

Definitely, not a secret. To "Maxim", "VIP", "Ego", "Vogue". Actually, it was the photographer who took the photos to these agencies. Maybe, i shouldn't believe the photographer ...... but i have a feeling that i've done some wrong steps, and get it all wrong, as you put it. In fact, i didn't want to say that mine is a "big bust only" country"; but that was my first step, and it was a failure. Still, i don't understand why they didn't tell me the truth, if the bust size wasn't the only problem.
Still, thank you. It was a good lesson.

Carib Goodies:

[Valentina Papariga: ...]


Beep........beep.......beep...beep...beep beep beep beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!!!!!

Oh! Let me turn down the sound on my BS meter. Probably disturbing the neighbors and all.

There, sound all turned down.

Hmmmm. Now I can smell the BS. Let me go get a clothes pin and some air freshener.

So.....let me get this straight....your "photographer" submitted to "Maxim", "VIP", "Ego", and "Vogue". These magazines (they are not agencies as your post suggests) actually took the time to each tell the photographer (who more than likely submitted them unsolicited, if he did) why they rejected the photos.

Cough cough ahem ummm....COUGH!!!!

Ah...got that out of my system.

Now, you know...I believe this is the very first time in my long career that I have seen "Vogue" in the same sentence as "Maxim", "VIP", and "Ego". Yeah...that is sort of like three guys in hoodies at a back tie event.

Interestingly enough, I was going to suggest to you before reading the post quoted above that your facial structure, hair color and figure are more suited to the luxury market...the over 40 affluent crowd who are thinking spenders rather than spontaneous spenders. The people who are still a major part of the Vogue magazine crowd.

Now, the first three mags have once in a while been known to accept unsolicited images. But those mags are geared towards guys who want to whack off but not get caught with porn. They are in the glamor field and recieve so much unsolicited images that the bulk of them are seen only by an army of minimum wage mail room clerks whose sole skill set in life is to be able to open 60 envelopes a minute without paper cuts. There is a 99% chance that your images, if submitted, were never seen by an editor.

Vogue, I won't say anything about except this: If that tog had walk in access to Vogue he would not have gone there with images of someone they would take no interest in because of "breast size". Vogue is not a pin-up magazine.

You know...I have a book with submission guidelines for over 20,000 magazines. Let me get back to you after I check the index to see if they have cross referenced publications with "minimum breast size submission guidelines".

You know...Madonna did Playboy with A cups and natural brown hair way before she was famous. Perhaps that was done before the advent of the eco-conscious concept of 'catch and release'. "Nah...this breast is too small, throw it back, maybe it will be larger next season."

Yes, there are girlie mags that have breast size, shape, aureole size, nipple size, width, and length, coloration, perky factor, fatty tissue location, etc. guidelines. For real, yes. (Sorry Joseph and Kim, but it is true.) Heck, Playboy even had a belly button minimum/maximum distance from crotch rule. If a girl looked good enough or was popular enough, Playboy would airbrush, retouch and move their belly button into optimum eye candy position.


Now, Valentina...if you are looking to be signed by a big time agency...why are you aiming for slots in the 'sticky pages' rags?

And do not let one fake arse photographer break your confidence in yourself and your desire to find proper agencies, hump until you get a sit down meet, and let them tell you to your face what they are looking for and why they cannot use you. And remember...every single agency is different. They focus on different clientèle, have their own model type(s) that they specialize in training and promoting, and have their own rules on how they accept talent to promote. It ain't over until the fat lady sings.


In the meantime, please read this article: WHAT TO DO IF MODELING AGENCIES TURN YOU DOWN


PS: Alena's comments, albeit in Russian, are dead on accurate and something I was going to comment to you about, but she beat me to it.