You have to agree that Kendall Jenner has taken the fashion industry by storm. She has landed herself the best magazine covers and walked the run way of the big names in the industry like Chanel and Givenchy.
But we all know that it’s because she is from a famous family. She may be beautiful, slender and tall but so are other models. It takes much more to sprout in the modeling industry.
Though she has said that her family has nothing to do with this because she is hardworking and even went ahead remove ‘Jenner’ from her name. Some people still think that’s still not enough.
Well, one of her fellow models; Arisce Wanzer, doesn’t believe that it’s just because of her hard work.. She believes that Kendall is getting most of the major jobs because of her family. Arisce is an American transgender model signed to BMG. She wrote a letter to Kendall on open-forum website The Blot, saying that aspiring models are forced to work extremely hard before they can get a quarter of what she gets. Read;
Dear Kendall,
Take a moment and remove yourself from your current situation, if you can, to a life that isn’t riddled with excess and only hearing the word “yes” to your wants and requests.
Now, imagine you’re from a small town and/or Third-World country where your only way to get out of your current social class, achieve your dreams, get a green card or just gain better work conditions is to become a high-fashion model. You have to leave for six months to a year sometimes, signing contracts you can barely understand, let alone oblige to, almost without choice.
You’re away from your family, your friends and everything you know. You live in a one-bedroom apartment with six other girls in the same situation in this Big Apple, New York City.
So now let’s pretend you actually lived through all of that, and it’s finally Fashion Week. Exciting, right? This could be your big break! You could send your family in Belarus or Woodbridge, Va., the money they need for your little brothers to have new clothes and/or books for school and/or even afford a plane ticket home for the holidays! Imagine standing in line after line of girls with your exact height and body measurements all day, each one hoping for a coveted spot on the New York Fashion Week runway.
But wait, isn’t that a reality TV star over there in hair and makeup? Yea, that’s definitely a Kardashian or something.
What is she doing here? Did she take the subway? Was she at the casting? What agency is she with? I didn’t see her last season … Does she need MORE fame? MORE money? A green card perhaps? Doesn’t she get enough cash from that show that all of ignorant America glamorizes? Didn’t her sister have sex with someone on camera and profit from the video sales to get their family its new line of limelight? This girl didn’t do and doesn’t owe half of what you did (remember, you’re NOT “KJ” in this scenario) to get here today, that much is certain. Her mommy surely called a top agency, got her in the door and the design houses just chose to milk her fame like the cash cow that it is. One by one like dominos from Vogue to Givenchy, fashion is selling out to the ignorant masses for money. What happened to the art, the cerebral part of fashion? Did it really all die with Alexander McQueen?
Yeah, a few points in there are pretty old-hat at this point—we can reference Kim’s sex tape all we want, but who’s the most famous family in the world right now?—but it’s clear that Wanzer’s angry, which means other models are angry, too.
And while we agree that it’s unfair that a tabloid magnet like Kendall became a superstar seemingly overnight while girls arguably more talented are getting bypassed, we have to remember that we’re living in a world where reality TV and social media are producing major, major celebrities whose massive followings equate to big profits, so it’s hard to fault designers to wanting to cash in on that.
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