There’s a million of cold cash spent for the last Mr. & Ms. Philippine Body Contour held in Sorsogon City. And there are thousands of pesos still unclaimed by those who won prizes at stake. This is until this press time. As to how many talent managers, handlers and models are yet smoking in anger—that we don’t know. But we’re taking this issue seriously, not because we got a talent sent there (we’re not handling models for that event) but because it’s high time for those in the modeling industry, especially among both amateur and budding fashion models to understand the fact that nobody’s raising hand to protect their interests and choice of career.
We have known models joining each and every event with only the courage of taking risks whatever is the cost to get the cost. We have known pageant candidates, with their handlers spending every centavo just for the attractive prize offers and ends up with a convoluted, if not biased sense of judging winners. We have known young models enticed to get on with some personalities so that they will get chance of being in the top list. We have also known people with DSLR cameras starting to click photos of models without explaining terms of release, not to mention theme and substance.
Orange Pulp campaigned for one of our featured models for the Body Contour competition, an event organized by a bunch of politicians who should not be in the modeling and fashion business in the first place. We are saddened by what happened to this grandiose and ego-tripping concept of a model search and we feel that everybody working hard to revive, promote and develop professional modeling has been violated. But who’s taking the legal steps to correct the mistake? The models can’t, they’re always vulnerable to get exploited in exchange of a promise for a moment’s fame. The talent managers will – most for the cause of getting the money but not for the cause of setting standards so that the industry will thrive and their wards equally protected.
Orange Pulp is joining RasagrafikaManila to send this message. We’re taking our step so that this kind of shit won’t happen again– at least to all amateur and aspiring models who wants to have fair treatment in the local fashion and modeling circuits. It’s not yet late. And it will never be late if all models would come out in the open, share your experiences, shout-out and be counted.
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