Seated in front of my coffee, I was making my way through British Vogue. There, Alexa Chung talked about her style. She was saying that she’ll always be a tomboy and gave a Valentine Fillol-Cordier quote, “Dressing like a boy and you’ll get way further with the boys…”

I close the magazine, swallow a huge gulp of coffee and get myself ready for a shoot. Except this time, I’m the one in front of the camera. A perfect excuse to wear my feather skirt, with super high heels thrusting my body forward and a little jean jacket all adding up to a rather spectacular result.  I’m thinking that off in the distance, in the urban jungle, you could easily enough confuse me with an ostrich.

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Gone are the days when modeling was thought to be a job of the dim-witted. Not anymore. To be a model is as real and hard as it gets. Look pretty, that’s a tiny little part of the job. After which, looks are almost beside the point.

This winter, I put together a few casting calls. For the first time and to my great delight, I got to pick the girls I wanted to work with.

So most of the models show up, we look them over and quickly forget each one. We  get desperate. The whole team, the guy responsible for the model’s styling, the hair, the make-up and whosever behind the lens, everyone needs to have a dream.  A photo shoot is a dream shared by many. And the more we believe in it, the more magical it becomes. We check out the girls, ask them questions… we try to make them move, talk, come alive.

There is one question I make sure to ask each time: do you like to get your photo taken? Just one glance and you can tell.

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