Sharpe's Opinion
Wednesday, 17th Dec, 2008
Life models in Paris have taken to the streets to protest poor wages… In their ‘uniforms’.
In front of the tastefully decorated Christmas trees outside Paris city hall’s culture department, the naked and goose-pimpled models demanded a pay increase, proper contracts and, most of all, respect for their craft as they held trade union banners in the pose of Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People.
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They also wanted to quash the misconception that life-modelling was merely something students and retired people did for pocket money. Sean Connery may have posed naked in Edinburgh to make ends meet when he was a struggling actor and Quentin Crisp may have spent the war years posing naked at Derby School of Art, but in France life-modelling is widely seen as a serious career choice.
[Insert your tastless joke about artists/nudity/the French here]
Let them draw cakes.
ladytizzy
December 17, 2008 at 1:35 pm