SC: Not always, you have to be aware. I think most do though…
SCV: In the documentary ‘Picture Me,’ directed by Ole Schell and the model Sara Ziff which I understand has yet to be released in the US the cameras seem to spend a lot of time with you as they investigate the terrain of modeling.
SC: Yes, I was just starting out then, and I think Ole followed my career for 7 years. From when I fist arrived in Milan and Paris and until part of the end.
SCV: In the clip that I have seen there is a slice showing you remonstrating, if that’s the most politest word I can find about how broke and indebted you were.
SC: (laughing) Well yeah, that stuff happens and before you even step onto the shoot you’re already down a bunch of money that you’ve got to make back. At the end of the day, it’s a business and you can’t escape that, no matter how much you want to be a model, how much you pose in front of the camera you have to be aware of what it’s all about and why you’re there.
SCV: I’m curious in the way fashion is portrayed in Europe versus the way it’s portrayed in the States.
SC: I think in the States it’s more light hearted, with an affinity towards lifestyle, beauty, and the dreamy. Where as in Europe you can have a shoot where you are a dominatrix, or you’re in a very provocative situation.
SCV: How does negotiate the temptations and the dalliances that comes with high fashion?
SC: I think by first having boundaries and then respecting and negotiating those boundaries.
SCV: I remember it once been said ‘that if a client is seeing the same girl out partying night after night then eventually she gets the reputation of being a B girl, one that a client should steer away from booking because if she has all this energy to party then she mustn’t be working.’ What do you think?
