Posted on Fri, Feb 03, 2012 @ 09:44 PM
Surprising facts from this week's modeling shoot:
We really did have to model ALL of those white jeans.
Chandra really did believe that Lipton tea bags would help.
Alex Rodriguez's home really does have practice nets INSIDE (not so surprising, A-Rod is hot. Very.)
And we really were comfortably discussing utter nonsense as our photographs were being taken.
Posted on Fri, Dec 02, 2011 @ 09:27 PM
I was in England when this article came out. Rather pleased with myself I emailed it to David in the Bahamas. His only response was to the image of me in the Viyella leather skirt and white silk shirt "Miss. Hicks please come in and take some dictation"
Deflated I showed my mother "Whatever is that odd thing climbing up your arm?" She asked, when we got to the page of my silver and diamond star fish cuff.
A few days later I discovered Domino had taken a large crayon and scribbled over our pages.
I am just waiting for the dachshund to piss on it.
Posted on Wed, Jun 01, 2011 @ 08:46 PM
So here's the strange bit about the glamorous world of modeling...its not at all glamorous. Not At All.
Well certainly not when you are reeeaaaallly old like me.
It normally involves lots of traveling, arriving late at night and jet lagged. You are up by 4 am, having a your hair mercifully pulled, curled or straightened, whilst someone else pins clothes tightly around your tummy, which you are sucking in for dear life so the client does not notice you've had four kids. Although its harder to suck in your thighs.
And then you're loaded into mini vans and driven to another destination, as dawn is just breaking, and even if you did have a moment to take in the scenery around you, all you actually do is eye the competition who are, inevitably younger, and have just been on a Sports Illustrated cover, dressed only in a thong.
So now you are really frightened.
And probably hungry.
And cold or very hot. Remember winter collections are shot in summer, and summer in winter, which is why on last weeks shoot I had toe warmers pressed against my nipples to try and make them behave beneath the flimsy silk shirt.
The day starts this early as we need to catch the light. A photographer spends their life trying to catch the light, then there is too much light, then we are loosing the light. Its very rare the light is just right. This means, as the model, you just stand there, blankly, waiting for the light. Waiting.
My blackberry is out of my reach, while we stand waiting for the light. Torture, for a Crackberry addict like me. I can see it is flashing. Has one of the kids been attacked by a shark? Has the SUGAR MILL burnt down? The possibilities are endless, if only I could have a teeny little glance at it whilst waiting for the light.....
"Lights up" The crew jump into action, the stylist fiddles with my hem, my hair is tussled one more time, the other model slips her arm around me and we lightly skip forward with our gleaming perfect teeth, best friends. Except my teeth are not so gleaming and a little bit of air brushing will have to happen. And possibly not just on my teeth.
"Light's down" We stop again. Now the creative director worries the watermelon colored coat is all wrong. The really important people now huddle in a corner discussing the coat, because it's a really important coat. We begin again. But I am no longer wearing the coat, MY watermelon coat is now on the Sports Illustrated girl. Best friend indeed.
After a few more hours of happy skipping, my toe-nipple warmer slips out, and as I bend down to retrieve it I hear a ripping sound......
Posted on Wed, May 19, 2010 @ 02:49 PM
Many moons ago I took a degree in photography. I spent hours studying the masters: STEICHEN, CAPA, ERWITT. So you can understand how excited I was to be photographed for the new TOD'S campaign by Elliott Erwitt. Mr. Erwitt has spent his career making wry, ironic observations, often involving dogs.
I was therefore rather a disapointment to him, not being able to produce any of my numerous dogs, however I could provide a location.
"I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them" he told me about his lasting career.
