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Elephant News reporter Feng Chong, Xu Zhaopeng, Li Junfeng, Li Wei
The young and beautiful Yaoyao, Liuyi, and Juan Juan worked as models in Zhengzhou, Henan.
The so-called model is a job that tries on clothes for buyers (usually wholesalers) in the store and provides style reference for buyers.
During working hours, they need to constantly put on, display, and take off repeatedly, with an average of a few seconds to pass a model. Sometimes it takes 10 hours a day to stand in high heels.
Change clothes in a few seconds, stand for 10 hours a day
The clothing store where Yaoyao works is located in Yinji Trade City.
Pulling up her long hair, putting on delicate makeup, and with the music playing, Yao Yao instantly changed from the little girl next door to a cold appearance. Standing on the stage, Yaoyao changed into the first display item - a new black light jacket, and then showed the side, front, and back, and displayed it in the shortest possible time. Immediately after, Yaoyao's shoulders shook slightly, and the top quickly slipped off her, revealing leggings and a small tank top, and then quickly put on a dress, and the whole change time was about 9 seconds.
It is such a single action, Yao Yao has to repeat it hundreds of times a day, and it is common to stand for 10 hours in high heels. Sometimes her feet were blistered and she put a band-aid on it until the end of the day.
After being a model for so many years, Yaoyao has also met some young girls, and after doing it for a week or two, she felt too tired and bitter to stop doing it, "but I like the feeling of standing on the stage, because I like it, I insist." ”
In addition to being responsible for fitting in the store, Yaoyao also undertakes the task of going out to shoot. According to the needs of work, after the in-store fitting in the morning, I had to carry large bags and small bags with my colleagues non-stop in the afternoon, and went to the filming location.
"As long as I shoot outside, changing twenty or thirty sets of clothes is the starting point, and sometimes even changing more than 40 sets of clothes, tired to the point that my back hurts and my arms hurt. Yao Yao said that in order to save time, the models often wear leggings and small tank tops, and start changing clothes in public places without any cover. From the shyness and embarrassment at the beginning, to the calm and calm now, it is inseparable from Yaoyao's integration and love for this job over the years.
After the outside shooting, Yaoyao can't be idle when she goes home at night, and she needs to hurry up and retouch and upload the pictures. Unable to have more free time to herself, her idea of having a puppy was repeatedly put on hold.
The monthly income is more than 10,000 yuan
Yaoyao, who gave up her studies at the age of 18 and then joined the modeling industry, is now independent and confident with her own talent and hard work.
A model like Yaoyao, who has superior and experienced conditions, earns about 134,000 a month, but Yaoyao doesn't feel that she is better than others. "It is also possible for some models who are better in first-tier cities to get 30,000 or 40,000 yuan a month, but their labor intensity is greater and their working hours are longer. ”
Going out is glamorous and colorful, which is the stereotype that everyone has of models. But Yaoyao seems to be an exception, she doesn't like to socialize and even has some social fears, in addition to trying on clothes every day, taking pictures, and retouching pictures, she likes to be alone at other times, and such a simple three-point and one-line life makes this young girl enjoy it very much.
Staying at home on weekends is the most relaxing moment for Yaoyao, who likes to learn how others dress while swiping her mobile phone, watching the catwalks of international supermodels, and paying attention to fashion magazine clothing trends.
Yaoyao has always felt that she is not beautiful enough, but this does not affect her self-confidence in the modeling industry. In the field of modeling, beauty and good figure are only a small part, and if you want to be excellent, brilliant and different, you need more knowledge and experience accumulation. "Being able to wear is charm, being able to ride is ability, and only by learning more can you do better what you love." ”
Although Yaoyao does not have a clear future plan at present, she believes that by the time she is 30 years old, she will have a clearer goal, "Now is to save money, learn, and accumulate experience." ”
From model to boss
Among the practitioners of wearing models, the young Liuyi is also one of them. Tiredness is the only feeling of 61 on the work of wearing a model.
In 2021, Liuyi, who came to Zhengzhou with her friends to buy goods, interviewed several models who wore the version, and she was successfully selected for her excellent figure. I have loved to dress up myself since I was a child, and now my wish has finally come true, and I can wear new clothes every day.
After the freshness passed, Liuyi felt a little wrong. Although the model wears new clothes every day, the style of the clothes is not the one they like.
Over time, the job of wearing a model has allowed Liuyi to learn a lot of experience related to clothing, and during this period, the owner of the store has also mentioned giving Liuyi shares, so that she can work here with more peace of mind, but Liuyi is an assertive girl, she doesn't want to be all.
After some careful consideration, Liuyi and her boyfriend thought that no matter how good the model was, it was a better choice to work for others, and only being the boss was a better choice, so in September 2024, Liuyi opened his first clothing store in Yinji.
From the beginning of the worker, he became the boss, and it was difficult to hide the joy on his face. In the 8 months since its opening, it has gone from half a year's capital preservation to a meager profit last month.
From showing the clothes to the customers in the audience before, to facing the camera later, after becoming the boss, there are more things to consider and plan.
"Online display and offline sales!" Nowadays, 61 basically displays her own clothes in the live broadcast room every day, but she believes that online sales have certain restrictions on products after all, and they can't be seen and touched.
"My idea is to bring the same clothes online to the offline level, so that customers can buy the products they want at the same price point online and offline. This is the preliminary plan for the future development direction of its clothing industry.
A common dream for the girls
Like Liuyi, the 25-year-old Juan also started his career as a model and now has opened a clothing store in Zhengzhou.
has been a model for two years, so that Juan Juan has accumulated a lot of fans on the online platform, Juan Juan confidently believes that she can successfully attract traffic with her popularity, and she seems to be walking relatively smoothly on this road. Although the store has only been open for one and a half months, the profit has reached more than 200,000 yuan. With the fans' trust and love for the rolls, rolls said frankly: "There is never a shortage of customers. ”
The 25-year-old rolls are fashionable and beautiful this year, but she doesn't want to rely on her appearance but on her strength to "eat".
Thinking back to his experience as a model in the fashion model, Mamakan prefers his current life. "Now we have more free time, we don't have to get up early, and customers make appointments in advance. ”
Today, Yaoyao is still committed to doing a good job of wearing models, while Liuyi and Juan Juan are beginning to plan to study clothing design and create their own clothing brands. The three girls have different directions in life, but what they have in common is that they have dreams and are brave enough to pursue their dreams.
In this city, there are still many unknown models who wear boards and look for their own direction in life. In the end, those efforts will become light, illuminating the way forward.
(At the request of the interviewee, Yaoyao, Liuyi, and Juan Juan are pseudonyms in the article.) ）