Picture Me - Fashion Documentary

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Picture Me" a fashion documentary by Sara Ziff.Ziff uncovers "Michael Moore style" the deep dirty secrets of the fashion world. It recently got audience award for Best Picture at the Milan International Film Festival. The Guardian deems it "one of the best films about the world of modeling and an honest portrayal of an industry built on artifice."Picture Me Trailer

In it, the stories are hardly pretty. Ziff told the Guardian about a 16-year-old model who complained to her agency when a 45-year-old photographer made a pass at her: "Her agency said she should have slept with him." She captures another model talking about how weight is approached: "In castings, people have slapped my thigh, and I'm not in any sense overweight, I never have been. I've been the same weight for a long time, but they'll slap your butt and be like 'Oooh, fat' in Italian or in French. 'It's too big here.'" -- Read more at Fashionologie

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