Cameron Russell
Cameron Russell
Cameron Russell is an American fashion model...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionModel
Date of Birth14 June 1987
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
fixed
Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
entertain million
Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
desire highlight needed quite together work
If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
ted work
I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.
counted four less models per university york
In 2007, a very inspired New York University Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four per cent, were non-white.
few men objects valuable women
Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
modelling
Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.
engagement level maintain variation
It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
barrier hard work
The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.
consciousness magazines mum
My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
became model won
The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.
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When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.