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David suddenly realized that he felt that the idea he had transmitted to his students was wrong. A hundred girls have a hundred different kinds of beauty. The idea of requiring all girls to be beautiful in a pattern is inhumane. He resigned for his gaffe in class and apologized to his students for his previous paranoid views of "beauty."
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"Look up and chest up and show me your vitality!" In the studio, David shouted at the students who had just entered the school, he was a teacher of fashion and performing arts at an art examination tutoring agency, with a height of 186 centimeters, standing in the classroom, such as Linfeng Yushu, Wei An was refreshing.
I first came into contact with the fashion modeling industry in 2017 when I was working part-time at an art testing agency. At that time, our acting candidates had two specific directions, the first was the theater film and television performance I was in, and the other was the fashion show. Although these two directions, written on the degree certificate of graduation from the university, are both performance majors and belong to the art of display, the employment directions of the two are completely different.
The former graduated to work as an actor in a theater troupe or film and television company, while the latter went to a fashion company as a model.
David is a gold medal teacher at the tutoring agency and is said to have "brought out" more than 100 students. Each profession has its own jargon, and the teachers of the art examination tutoring institution especially like to use the expression of "bringing out", as if students are shrunken heads and turtles before enrolling, and they are people who cannot be "on the table". They need to pass the promotion and "belt" of the art examination teacher in order to get ahead, in order to get out of the brush state of "not hearing anything out of the window, and only reading the books of the sages". Students who have received professional training and aspire to take the art admissions exam are called art candidates, and after they are "brought" by the art test teacher, there will indeed be visible differences in appearance and temperament.
In the class of the fashion show, David put special emphasis on "vitality". He told the students: "Don't just look in the mirror every day, think you are very beautiful and handsome, and know that there are more good-looking people in China." When the examiner is interviewed, the first look at the figure, the second look at the temperament. Most of the figure is innate, and you can't change it in this grade, so you have to show your vitality. In David's mouth, the vitality is like milk in the breakfast bag, if you want to take it, you can easily take it out.
Anna, who "can't get out of vitality", is a "key student" of a school, Anna's parents are doing "small business" in Zhejiang, the family has no worries about food and clothing, there is no shortage of anything, and they expect their children to have a job. In order to get her into a so-called good university, Anna's parents spent 5 figures of tuition to enroll her in one of the most expensive "VIP guarantee classes" in our tutoring agency.
When the order was signed, the lips of the sales were smiling to the ear, and they could not close for several days. The so-called VIP class means that the school will assign a teacher to teach her 60 hours of one-on-one lessons. "Bao Pass class" means that in case Anna did not take the exam this year, she can make a comeback next year and learn again for free.
Anna, who was not short of money, originally did not have a good grade in the culture class of high school, and the total score of the final exam of the second year of high school was not even 400 points. The reason why she sat in the classroom of our tutoring institution was completely a helpless choice under the pressure of her parents. At first, Anna told our sales that she wanted to learn music, but she couldn't sing five tones; she learned to broadcast; she learned to host, she was quite non-standard in Mandarin; she couldn't write a screenplay; she couldn't write a script; she couldn't even remember the lines on the script. In this way, anna finally chose a modeling profession that did not sing, did not write, did not talk, and did not even need to memorize the script.
Anna thought she had found a good job and could go to college without talking or endorsing it, and felt that it was a good thing that pie fell from the sky. However, what she didn't know at that time was that modeling, a profession that relied on her body to eat, meant that she would not be fragrant in the future. In order to maintain the "upper body effect" of the clothes, the models and the model reserves who take the art exam must maintain the ideal "devil figure". The carbohydrates of rice, noodles, and biscuits are not to be thought of, and fat foods such as fried, barbecued, hot pot and dessert are even more taboos that cannot be touched.
On the first day that Anna came to the tutoring agency to report, David "scanned" Anna's slightly fat figure from beginning to end like a commodity in the window, and he specifically told Anna's mother not to eat "oily" food at home. When Anna's mother heard David say that this was not allowed to eat, that was not allowed to eat, her face was as green as a small green vegetable in spring. Don't say that Anna can't eat, eat cucumber radish broccoli every day, this kind of day, parents also live a bad ah. At this time, David showed a deep sense of righteousness of "touching the dragon and saying Empress Zhao", he let Anna's mother "plan far-reaching", and said that the current hardships are all sweet as honey for future life.
Anna's mother, who aspired to be "Empress Zhao", listened to it, and in those months, Anna's family did not see greasy, and broccoli flowers were invented in a different pattern. Anna can't resist bringing snacks to the tutoring agency when she has time, and Teacher David will confiscate them on the spot when she sees them. After a month of "healthy eating", Anna's weight also managed to lose less than 100 pounds.
Weight, however, was only the first hurdle she overcame.
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There are four major levels in the art examination of models (fashion shows), namely physical measurement, morphological observation, stage step display and talent show. This is due to the body of the model, which represents the closest human being to the "ideal". Therefore, if you want to become a model, you have strict data indicators for height, weight, shoulder width, bust, waist, hips, and the ratio of lower body to upper body.
The above is the first level of physical measurement.
The second level of the art test is the form display, which requires the candidate to show the judges their posture, temperament and muscle proportions through movements such as rotation, jumping, outstretched arms and stretching. At the second level of training, Anna cried bitterly. In school, as an ordinary high school student, Anna wore sneakers or casual shoes every day, never wearing high heels. But if you want to be a qualified model, you must not only adapt to walking in high heels, but also adapt to standing for several hours at a time when you stand on the platform.
Where the pampered Anna could bear this kind of suffering, she stood for a few minutes, then turned around and went to the rest area to find a stool and play with her mobile phone. David saw that her "mud can't hold up the wall" personality is angry and anxious. As a teacher at a training institution, he could only teach a few words verbally at best. But Anna's left ear went in and her right ear came out. In desperation, David had to move out of the universal killer of teachers all over the world, that is, to invite parents.
After calling Anna's parents, Anna was like a different person in class the next day. It turned out that Anna was particularly afraid of her father at home, and Anna's father said that if she did not go to college, he would let Anna marry. When Anna heard that her parents were going to marry her, she was so frightened that she lost half of her laziness, and she still felt that the hardships of studying were easier when she thought of the bleak scene of her high school graduation if she could not get into college.
The third level of the model art exam is the stage step display that makes the candidates most afraid and worried.
This session mainly examines the students' aesthetic ability, perception ability, physical expression and control. Candidates are required to choose and purchase their own clothes for display in advance. Candidates with good family conditions may ask a special clothing designer to tailor it. Candidates from ordinary families will be accompanied by teachers from art examination tutoring institutions to go to large shopping malls for purchase, and the teachers will make suggestions according to their own life experience and the popular fashion of the year. But in any case, parents support children who learn model art exams, and the environment at home will not be too bad after all.
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After buying clothes and practicing the steps, the students of the model art test must prepare the content of the fourth level of talent display. Unlike the talent show of drama, film and television, because the model is not a job that eats by mouth, the talent show is not recommended or even can not choose to recite or sing. Admissions requirements at many universities make it clear that talent shows for modeling (fashion show) art exams can only be selected from dance, aerobics and rhythmic gymnastics.
Aerobics and rhythmic gymnastics are both hard-working and challenging projects, and after a long struggle, Anna finally chose dance as her talent showcase. However, she had not learned to dance before, and Teacher David could only use the quickest method to teach her to dance the modern dance without rules. Teacher David taught very seriously, he stood in front of the floor mirror in the practice room, each movement was demonstrated one by one, tirelessly explaining the main points of the dance and correcting the flaws in Anna's movements.
Anna wore a loose white performance dress, holding a large red silk fan in each hand, rolling on the ground a few times, the fan opened and closed, so carelessly that a dance work was even finished. In the mock test before the exam, Teacher David finished reading Anna's "dance work" and turned his face to the side in disappointment. He said to me: Anna's modern dance is emotionless and blunt, and this is a modern dance that is almost fake to the heavens!
However, such a modern dance that "went to heaven" actually brought Anna smoothly into the door of a second college. On the day she received her acceptance letter, Anna's parents were still in a star hotel and invited the teachers of our tutoring agency to a big meal. The seafood I can't name comes out with the waiter's serving fish. Even Anna's father, who was very busy on weekdays, was "busy" and attended the dinner party that day.
At the brightly lit banquet, Anna's father smiled rarely, and he touched Anna's head in a drunken slight drunkenness and said to her: "When you go to college, you have to follow the teachers to study well, learn more culture, don't be like your parents, only know how to make money." In a lifetime, I will not do anything but do business to make money. ”
Although the reputation and ranking of the school are not very good in the whole country, for Anna and her parents, as long as it is a university, it is worth studying. Because they are such a "small business" family that does not need to improve their economic situation through the struggle of their children, the significance of going to college is to allow Anna to go to a place to stay safely for four years, meet some friends, get a diploma, learn a little knowledge, and then go back to her hometown to marry a Ruyi Langjun who is the right door.
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After entering the university, art candidates like to work part-time," which is both due to the practical requirements of the profession and the large daily expenses of the art major, and the need to make money part-time to subsidize living expenses. Anna also went to work part-time when she entered college, and of course, she didn't need or expect to make money by working part-time.
Anna was pulled over by her college roommate. Four people in a dormitory, going out on weekends and working part-time became a collective team building in the dormitory. Anna's face is thin, and she really can't resist the warm invitations of her roommates and girlfriends. Of course, it is also for the so-called internship practice credits.
As a fashion show student, in fact, most people do not have the opportunity to walk on the catwalk, just like most people in society have not seen a fashion show on the spot. The narrowness of the market has led to a lack of job opportunities. Some of the part-time jobs Anna and her roommates receive the most are actually small business event platforms. In particular, she goes to car shows to be a car model and goes to the annual meeting of the company, or to act as a courtesy lady at the event of the opening of a new store.
Whether it is a car model or a lady of etiquette, the common denominator of these two jobs is that they do not need to speak, but they must stand in the venue like a vase, smiling and smiling.
When she first started working part-time, Anna still thought it was "quite fresh and fun.". But the more times it goes, the more part-time work becomes a boring and time-consuming task. Especially when making car models, the organizers require models to wear "clothes that reflect the tonality of the car brand". The so-called "car brand tonality" is to attract attention, especially to attract the attention of potential, middle-aged greasy men.
So Anna and her roommates were forced to wear long skirts with large collars at the "immature suggestion" of the organizers. They stood next to the so-called famous cars and luxury cars with bright smiles, sometimes stroking the dark clouds and inky hair with their hands, sometimes turning around and stroking the hood of the car with their hands, and then holding back the soreness in the soles of their feet, accepting the malicious gaze of some middle-aged greasy men or even obscene men.
One of the most memorable experiences was at an event that Anna gave to the platform of an SUV. Anna was wearing a light blue dress that day, and as she stood next to the bulky SUV and worked hard, an even more clunky greasy uncle came up to her and talked to her.
Greasy Uncle stood in front of the SUV, and without Anna's permission, pulled his baby-like camera out of his pocket and took a crazy selfie. He deliberately took himself and Anna into the same picture, using the illusion created by the borrowing to make some kind of indescribable intimacy. After taking the photo, the greasy uncle turned his head and asked Anna with a squint, "Beauty, how much is it?" ”
At first, Anna thought that Greasy Uncle was asking about the price of this SUV, and just when she was about to seriously recommend the car, the Greasy Uncle said something extremely obscene and dirty in Anna's ear. When Anna heard that, she felt more disgusting than eating ten thousand green-headed flies in the toilet. She turned around and ran to the person in charge of the auto show to complain, hoping that someone would make her own decision.
However, when the person in charge of the auto show walked over to understand the situation, the greasy uncle had long disappeared into the crowd and disappeared without a trace.
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Shortly after I went to study in the United States, David resigned from the art testing agency.
The reason for David's resignation was that he had a fight with a girl in the class during class. At that time, the female classmate took out a bag of Oreo from her bag during the courseware break. David saw it, and without saying a word, he snatched the bag of Oreo, threw it in the trash in front of the girl, and claimed that "all food that will make you fat after eating it is junk food." In this way, if anna's soft nature was followed, she might admit a mistake, and this matter would be over.
But this girl was not Anna, she saw David throw away his biscuits, rushed to David on the spot, and smashed his bag on him.
The girl said angrily, "Why don't you let me eat Oreo?" Am I fat or thin, what's the matter with you? What right do you have to interfere with my freedom to eat? Why do girls have to be thin? Does the art exam only recruit beautiful people? Is there a fixed standard for beauty? ......”
The girl was angry and said a lot in one breath, but David remembered one of her words: "Is there a fixed standard for beauty?" ”
After leaving the art examination training institution, David went to a clothing company in Hangzhou to work as a "live model". The word live model is a new invention of our time, on some head social media live broadcast, through the way of dressing display, for the company to do publicity advertising, and then "accurate docking potential customers", through a variety of words to enhance the sales and performance of clothing.
Originally modeling was a profession that did not need to speak at all, and David really did not expect that one day he would suffer from acute laryngitis because of excessive use of his voice at work. David, who is a "live model", does a 2-hour live broadcast program and shouts at least a thousand words "family" in front of the mobile phone screen. With the help of his little assistant, he constantly changed his clothes, and according to the instructions of the company leader and the number of goods backlogged in the warehouse, he gave targeted suggestions to the family members on a whole fashion match.
Embarrassingly, many times, David shouted through the throat, and the "family members" who hid behind the mobile phone screen to watch the hilarity remained indifferent.
In the spring of 2021, David's "live model" could not continue, so he took Anna's olive branch and went to Work as a "middle manager" in Anna's family business. At this time, Anna's body has shown a clear "rich state", but this time, in the face of former students and today's bosses, David has taken out "unprecedented vitality", and he said to Anna: "There is no unified standard for beauty, you feel comfortable." ”
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