#professionals

If you've been in this type of situation on both sides, select whichever feels most memorable or relevant to you.

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The fashion industry and their marketing, money-making machine never ceases to amaze me, but even more the people who always drink all of their Kool-aid.

If the current influencer market ain't working, make a version 2.0, just more believable. But just because it's sold as more believable it doesn't mean that it's actually real. You can edit a bathroom selfie and your life as much as you can edit a magazine editorial picture, it doesn't matter if you're a rocket scientist. This is what most people can't understand. And the fact that they have to always look like models? Oh yes, that's so realistic (*rolls eyes*), because of course, extremely creative people come looking like an A.I. generated human, huh? If you were 1% for 'reality', 'authenticity', and talent, as you say, the people you promote would look completely different to the always perfect physical packages you sell to the masses.

Honestly, though, aside from the fact that influencer fatigue is real (which is a good thing in my book), the rest is absolute bullsh!it. While I do truly believe that having other background or education outside of fashion truly helps to build a different point of view (my architecture and art background has helped me create my own vision of things not just in fashion, but in everything I do), I don't believe it's an absolute must. Fashion, like any other field, requires above anything true, authentic passion and love for it and I am not sure that for instance a doctor has either the time or energy to do the research and keep up to date with the latest collections.

Furthermore, fashion has and never had anything to do with this so-called 'reality' that has been a buzzword in the industry for the past 7 years (Blame it on these past generations being raised with reality TV preferring 'unedited' images that are actually edited). Fashion has been about dreams since I can remember and certainly much longer than that. In fact, I believe that the influencer market is oversaturated, since the industry who always hated bloggers, decided 7 years ago to substitute them (bloggers offered not just professional photography but truthfully deep insight into fashion and could also therefore write) with people who could earn a massive following by only posting a bathroom selfie. They basically invited everyone to join fashion, including people who don't give 2 f*cks about it, but are obsessed with online fame.

Thanks for the poll request, anonymous! If you are curious about this topic, I have done many polls about doing sports professionally, with each poll focusing on a different sport (football, rugby, etc.) so if you want to see the stats on these, use the search bar function on my blog page 🧡