“Lift your head a little bit”, the girl follows these words. “Your eyes should be full of passion, instead of innocence. Just like this.” The girl copies his eyes expression. “Put your hand on your waist to show the beauty of your body.” The girl does it. Ca-cha, the photographer fastens the shutter, looking at the photo, and says “Gorgeous! You are so beautiful! Now, put on the LV clothes and then fly to Paris, Sasha.”

Wearing the world famous brand clothes, having the ideal figure many girls desire, getting highly paid --- this is what a supermodel looks like. Supermodels always wear the latest dress by famous designers, like Marc Jacob，LV’s chief designer. They keep changing clothes, from Gucci to D&G, from Channel to Dior. They may have five or six different make-ups and hairstyles within an hour. They spend about 29 seconds on the T-stage, but several weeks preparing for it. They may stay in Paris this minute but in New York the next. They are shopping with their best friends at this moment, but the schedule is suddenly disturbed by an emergency call from the manager. This disorderly schedule is also part of their model life.

Maggie Rizer, 29, a supermodel working for Vogue, hates the unset schedule most. When she was asked “What’s the most difficult thing about your job? The travel? Being away from your family, friends, or boy friend?” “The hardest part about modeling for me is not feeling grounded. I don’t have a fixed schedule. I am always running around and never know where I am going to be next,” said she. She had once walked 90 shows in a day. Her toes had been red and sore. Her face had been allergic to cosmetics; tears couldn’t help dropping from her eyes. As a supermodel, she feels that her body no longer belongs to her, for she never knows what she really looks like until her make-up and hair are done. It is always crowded behind the stage. Designers’ assistants keep shouting, models keep looking for their clothes, designers try to make the cloths look perfect on the models. Everything is out of order.

Supermodels are top fashion models. These celebrities, also known as cover girls, appear on top fashion magazine covers, in catalogue and in fashion shows. The first model to pave the way for what would become to supermodel was Lisa Fonssagrives. The relationship between her image over 200 Vogue covers and her name recognition led to the importance of Vogue in shaping future supermodels.

Figure is the capital of being a super model. Kate Moss, 35, is one of the most famous supermodels in the world. She has had campaigns with major Italian, French, American and British designers including Gucci, Versace, and D&G. Moss has appeared on the cover of British Vogue alone 26 times and has been featured on the cover of 17 issues. She has won the prestigious Vogue or CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) award from the fashion Designers of America in July, 2005. In order to keep her perfect figure and to expand her career life span, she had once been a cocaine addict. It is reported that she snorted 5 lines in 40 minutes. The image supermodels have, in many people’s mind, is that they are beautiful in appearance and that they are chain smokers and drug taking divas. “The reason they smoke and take drugs is that they can release their pressure and keep their size zero figure by doing that. They are reluctant to do so, but they have to,” says Marc Bohan, chief designer of Dior.

Supermodels’ career span is short. They have to retire when their figure and beauty begin to fade. Many supermodels will do something else, such as, to be a designer, to be a singer, or to produce TV program. American’s Next Top Model, a very heat TV show in America, is hosted by Tyra Banks, once a model for D&G. Most supermodels will try to use their fame to set up their own business to keep money flowing in after retirement.

Though being a supermodel is a glorious job for a while, a difficult profession for a minute, it is still worthwhile.

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