Hello, my name is Cameron Rusell
and for a while
I’ve been models.
in fact for 10 years.
I have the impression that there is a tense tension
in the hall at this moment
because I should not have worn this dress. (Laughter)
Fortunately I brought something to change.
This will be the first change of dress on the TED scene,
so you’re lucky to be a witness to this scene.
If some of the women are terrified after finishing,
you do not have to tell me now that I will later discover it on twitter.
(Laughter)
I want to point out that I’m somehow privileged
that I am able to transform what you think of me
in a time of 10 seconds.
Not everyone can achieve this.
These behind are very uncomfortable,
good thing because I would not wear it.
The hardest part is the passage of tricot on my head,
because at this moment you would laugh at me,
so do not do anything that’s over my head.
beautifully
Why did I do all this?
It was difficult
beautifully
fortunately not as difficult as this
The image is power,
but also the image is superficial.
I managed to transform what you thought for me in 6 seconds.
And in this photo,
in fact I have never had a loved one in real life
I was completely in deaf, and photographs
asking me to give my bow and fold my hands
in that boy’s hair.
Of course, besides the octopus,
or fake teasing I did two days ago for work,
there are few things we can do to transform as we look
and external appearance, although superficial and unchanging,
has a great impact on our lives.
Today, for me, being fearless means honest.
And I’m in this scene because I’m models.
I’m in this scene because I’m a white and beautiful woman,
and in my industry we call it a sex woman.
And I will answer the question that people always do,
but with the truth.
The first question is, how did one make a model?
And I always said, “Oh, I was a discovery,” but that does not mean anything.
The real path with which the models are made is
I won a genetic lottery, and I’m a legitimate heirloom
and maybe you’re curious about what inheritance.
For the last centuries
we have gained beauty not just as health and youth
and the fact that we are biologically programmed to admire,
but also as a tall, fine figure
and femininity and white skin.
And this is a legacy that has been specially designed for me,
and it is a heritage from which I have benefited.
And I know there are people in the audience
who are skeptical at this point,
and maybe there are some fashonists, like,
“Wait, Naomi, Tyra, Joan Smalls, Liu Wen.”
First, I am grateful for your knowledge of models. Very impressive.
(Laughter)
But unfortunately I must inform you that in 2007,
a Ph.D student very inspired NYU number
all models on the piste, any one of them being hired,
and out of the 677 models employed,
only 27 or less than 4% were not white.
The next question that people do is always
“Can I be a model when I grow up?”
And the answer is, “I do not know, is not I what you decide?”
But the second answer I really want to give these little girls is, “Why”?
You know what? You can do everything.
You can become president of the United States of America,
or the next internet inventor
or a cardio-thoratic nixha poet surgeon,
which would be wonderful because you would be the first.
(Laughter)
And if after this long list they say,
“No, not Cameron, I want to be a model”
then I would say “Become my director”
Because I do not put anything,
and you can become the American Vogue chief
or CEO of H & M, or future Steven Meisel.
Saying you want to be models when you grow up
is the same as saying you want to win the lottery when you grow up.
It’s out of your control, and it’s fantastic
and it is not a career path.
I will demonstrate to you a knowledge accumulated in 10 years as models,
because unlike the cardio-thoracic surgeon,
can be demonstrated immediately, right now.
If the file is exactly there
and light is right here, as a handsome HMI
and the client says, “Cameron, we want a flick on the way up”
then this walk goes first, nice and long, this hand goes back, the other hand goes before
the head is a bit high, and you go down and up
continues to the ribs and looks after the imaginary companion
300, 400, 500 times. (Laughter)
It will be something like this.
Probably a little bit sloppy than the middle one.
It was as if I did not know what happened.
Unfortunately, after you go to school
and after you have a resume and have done some work,
you can not say anything more
and if you say you want to be the president of the United States
but your resume says, “models for underwear: 10 years”
people will look at you with irony.
The other question I always ask is, “Do you process all the pictures?”
And yes, more or less all the photos are processed,
but this is a little detail of what’s happening.
This is the first photo I’ve made,
and it’s the first time I’ve worn a bikini,
I still have not started periods.
I understand that are personal things, but
I was a young girl.
So I looked a few months ago with my grandmother.
Here I am on the same day in this shot.
My friend had to come with me.
Here I am at a pajamas festival a few days before the pictures for French Vogue.
Here I am with the soccer soccer and magazine V.
And here I am.
And I hope you understand that
these pictures are not my photos.
These are processing,
and are processed by a group of professionals,
from hairdresser and makeshift artist and photographer and stylist
and by all their assistants and paraphrases and refinements
and they built this. That’s not me.
The other question that always ask me is,
“Do you get free stuff?”
I have many 8 foot jackets that I never wear,
except before,
but the free stuff I got
are things that I have taken in real life and are things we do not like to talk about.
I grew up in Cambridge
and once I went into a store I had forgotten the money
and they gave me a free dress.
When I was a teenager, I was in the car with a friend
which was a very bad watchmaker and crossed the red and definitely
that we stopped
and only had to say “Officer, forgive us”
and so we saved.
And I got these 3 free stuff from my apparel
and not from which am, and there are people who pay
because of the appearance and not because of who they are.
I live in New York and last year
out of 140,000 detained controlled teenagers
86% of them were Color or Latin
and most of them were young men.
And there are a total of 177,000 colored boys in Latin and New York
and for them it is pointless the question “Will I be banned”
but “How many times will I be banned?” “When will I be banned?”
When I was looking for material for this speech
I came to the conclusion that 13-year-old girls in the United States
53% do not like their body,
and this percentage goes to 78 for the age of 17.
The last question I ask is
“How is it to be a model?”
And I think the answer they are asking for is
“If you are a bit lazy and if you have a glittery hair”
you will be happy and wonderful. “
And when we are behind, give a response
which would probably resemble this way
We say, “It is a wonderful occasion to go,
it is wonderful to go to work with creativity, inspiration and passionate “
All these are true but are only half of the story
because the only thing we did not say in front of the camera
that I have never said before the camera
is “I’m unsafe”
I’m insecure because I have to think
how do I look every day.
And if you ever ask yourself
“If I have the most money and the brightest hair, will I be happier?”
you just have to meet a set of models
because they have the finest legs and shiny hair and the most beautiful clothes
and maybe they are physically unsafe women on the planet.
When I was preparing this speech, it was very difficult
to put a fair balance on one side
it was very uncomfortable to come here and say
Look, I’ve got all these benefits
and you feel really uncomfortable to follow
and does not always make me happy.
Many times it is difficult to undermine tradition
of oppression and gender racism
when I am one of the biggest beneficiaries.
But I’m also happy and honored to be here
and I think it was a nice thing to come
before spending 10 or 20 or 30 years and I would have more agencies in my career
because maybe then I could not tell the story of how I got my first job
or maybe I would not tell the story of how I paid for college
which seem very important now.
If there is any message received from this speech, I hope to be
we all feel more comfortable knowing
the power of appearing in our success
and in our failure.
Thank you. (Applause)
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