The Other Style...
Do I have to introduce Olajumoke Orisaguna to anyone?
Should I even have to?
After all, she’s been on CNN, The Huffington Post, BBC and Buzzfeed.
The proverbial story of the bread seller whose time it is to ‘shine’ and
what not. It was fun at first, then it started to get somewhat
ridiculous and now, its an outright farce.
Two weeks ago, The Lagos Polo club had it’s annual event and part of
this year’s line up, a fashion show was organized with several emerging
and high profile designers showing clothes from their latest collections
and there, this happened.
At the open call casting for the 2015 Lagos Fashion and Design Week,
nearly 500 hundred models, a vast majority of whom had been in the
industry for at least two years showed up to audition for one of the 75
slots open to models. Less than 20 percent got a slot. That is just a
base idea of how competitive runway modelling is.
Of all the kinds of modeling there is out there ( and there are
many), runway modeling is the most competitive, second only to
advertising editorials in prestige and pay out. But to succeed as a
runway model, you must either be well above average height or have a
distinctive walk, the latter traditional models train for years to
finesse and perfect.
