Women sportspersons like Krishna Poonia and Seema Antil are role models for Haryanvi women.
I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.
I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.
There’s a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They’re very fashionable to me – the design and the shape of them. I just like them.
Social media just plays this massive factor in all of our lives now, and also, the bloggers and influencers are coming in and taking our jobs as models.
While I appreciate how thin some of the models are – when it’s healthy – and think, ‘Yeah, you’re gorgeous and the clothes hang off you amazingly,’ I like to stay strong about how I’m built.
I think multimodal kinds of models are pretty interesting – like can you combine text with imagery or audio or video in interesting ways?
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.
Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.
I come from a city where we really didn’t have too many role models.
The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.
Many models I knew had come from broken families. That makes a significant difference in the way you handle yourself and the choices you make.
All this size 0! A bit ridiculous. There’s something creepy about fashion shows. The models look like they’re going to be tortured. They do this strange pony walk; their heels are so high, they can hardly walk. Creepy!
We had a bunch of models for user adoption of Robinhood Gold. The data team had some silly names for a range of adoption levels: ‘Mediocre expectations,’ ‘middle-of-the-road expectations’ and ‘great expectations.’ The numbers we ended up with were significantly higher than ‘great expectations.’
Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it’s great to have role models that aren’t in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That’s so important for young women.
It’s true of models in general – I don’t think they eat and fuel properly throughout the day.
Today, models are able to share industry news, trends, and communicate with fans through Twitter, Instagram and blogs. So in a way, our position as models is way more personable and relatable.
I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.
Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.
To be honest, I didn’t love the high-fashion world because models aren’t always treated that well. I was a scrappy kid from a farm, and that world felt a little snobby. But I was grateful for it, and my photo shoots now are really fast because I know my poses.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
I’m not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It’s more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
Curvy and plus-size models will just be models once it becomes more normalized and we get more representation and people are used to it and not shocked by it.
I kept the first Rickenbacker I ever got, a little short-scale John Lennon-type model. And I’ve got a couple of 12-string models, which are really nice, and I’ve got a Pete Townshend model, which Pete gave me a few years ago. But that’s about it.
I remember asking one of my agents, like, ‘Hey, is this Instagram thing good for models, or is it bad?’ And they said, ‘No. Keep doing it. Heidi Klum, or whoever, has millions of followers, and that doesn’t hurt them.’ So, I kept with it. I think it definitely helped.
My favorite models are always going to be the people who are pushing the boundary and challenging what it is to be a model.
Businesses need to proactively create models that make a difference in society and let everyone else use them, talk about them, emulate them – and build on them.
If you take existing ideas and make them affordable and scalable, you substantially change business models. India lacks an education system that is research- and creativity-oriented.
It’s very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.
My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
Parents must lead by example. Don’t use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children’s first and most important role models.
We need role models in our society that the youth can look up to because that space is shrinking.
As educated girls become women, they can transform local communities and act as role models for younger girls.
Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista – those models got bunched together. I was always asked to be bunched in there, but I didn’t want to be part of the herd. The only one I really had a problem with, though, was Naomi.
Straight sized boards are models size 0-6. Plus size boards are models starting at a 10. If a size 8 girl was 5′ 11 and curvy, she’d be on the plus sized board, because there’s nothing in between.
I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it’s personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on.
I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.
People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
I never really think of anyone as models, even the models.
There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren’t famous. There weren’t a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of ’em.
The big problem is that a lot of Americans, whether they are underrepresented minorities or from rural areas, do not know about career opportunities in the tech industry because they may not have had role models who are part of this field or learned about STEM in school.
My parents are good role models because they’ve worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.
Nowadays, everyone writes a cookbook. Models, singers, whatever, everybody thinks that they can do it and cook on TV. What they don’t understand is that if you want to do it well, you need to put in the hours.
The first time I learned about Aerie, I was blown away by how beautiful and confident the models appeared in their ads – and more so that they were un-retouched.
A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases – but bland girls don’t influence me. I don’t like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
I liked models since I was 3 years old. As I grew older, I started developing a penchant towards makeup, pedicures, etc. I used to carry out the procedures at my home itself.
When I think of ‘Instagram models,’ I say you have to take baby steps. You cannot just walk straight onto the runway.
Even in the early Eighties, when I was one of the most successful models in Britain, I didn’t really have a voice. Time after time, when I should have spoken up, I simply walked away.
I’m enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women’s Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of women athletes as positive role models, not only for my daughter but also for my son.
Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from.
Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today’s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.
