Helping Girls Realize Fashion Dreams
Published: 25 February 2012 By Yemi Giwa
Image of girls in the fashion world (Courtesy: realstylenetwork.com)
Modelling is a way of showcasing beauty and embracing stardom with brains. In Nigeria, people don’t take skinny girls seriously and believe they don’t have perfect bodies to be models, unlike advanced countries where skinny girls who are not that tall are given the attention required for success as models.
Does a girl need to be tall and be over 6 feet to be a model? This is a question that skinny girls here who are not tall, want to be models, but are discriminated against for their height, ask. Such girls shy away from public spotlight, stay indoor and blocked away from ever realizing their potentials.
A good comparison between two countries like America and Nigeria will serve the purpose of this writing. These are two different countries with different cultures. Nigeria has in every way abandon the search for young and beautiful young women who need help to fulfill their dream. Unlike Nigeria, America has not only opened the doors for every child irrespective of sex to realize their ambition through adequate access to education.
Education serves a purpose of a leg on the door for fortunate American girls and in the course of time as they go through the process of development many girls in Nigeria don’t have, they are discovered by scouts with agents in different states who help toward fulfillment of the girl’s dreams.
By the time the girls are discovered, nurtured through various make up procedures, given the directions about how competitive the business of modeling is, they are ready for the modeling industry.
Before stepping out into the public to show what they have, they are already aware that modeling is all about a woman’s beauty and making the public know how competitive it is to be beautiful.
Examples of the models who have given girls courage and confidence to young girls that they could also venture into the modelling world are Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Agbani Darego and Kimora Le Simons. Girls have followed these models, watching them and obtaining necessary knowledge about modelling.
They have shown that modelling isn’t what a girl will want to do or do forever. They have shown that through cat walking-a necessary first stage in the business of modeling- a successful model can venture into fashion designing, own clothing lines, some own shoe lines-being about what one loves-and other have make-up lines or a combination of all of these.
At the end of everything, we are still talking about fashion. But the first step toward helping the girls realize their fashion dream is to open the door for education, and other needs will come on the ladder or the building block that education represents.
Does a girl need to be tall and be over 6 feet to be a model? This is a question that skinny girls here who are not tall, want to be models, but are discriminated against for their height, ask. Such girls shy away from public spotlight, stay indoor and blocked away from ever realizing their potentials.
A good comparison between two countries like America and Nigeria will serve the purpose of this writing. These are two different countries with different cultures. Nigeria has in every way abandon the search for young and beautiful young women who need help to fulfill their dream. Unlike Nigeria, America has not only opened the doors for every child irrespective of sex to realize their ambition through adequate access to education.
Education serves a purpose of a leg on the door for fortunate American girls and in the course of time as they go through the process of development many girls in Nigeria don’t have, they are discovered by scouts with agents in different states who help toward fulfillment of the girl’s dreams.
By the time the girls are discovered, nurtured through various make up procedures, given the directions about how competitive the business of modeling is, they are ready for the modeling industry.
Before stepping out into the public to show what they have, they are already aware that modeling is all about a woman’s beauty and making the public know how competitive it is to be beautiful.
Examples of the models who have given girls courage and confidence to young girls that they could also venture into the modelling world are Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Agbani Darego and Kimora Le Simons. Girls have followed these models, watching them and obtaining necessary knowledge about modelling.
They have shown that modelling isn’t what a girl will want to do or do forever. They have shown that through cat walking-a necessary first stage in the business of modeling- a successful model can venture into fashion designing, own clothing lines, some own shoe lines-being about what one loves-and other have make-up lines or a combination of all of these.
At the end of everything, we are still talking about fashion. But the first step toward helping the girls realize their fashion dream is to open the door for education, and other needs will come on the ladder or the building block that education represents.