Along with a picture of a few skinny boys living in squalor and sleeping three to a room in some hell-and-gone outer borough, the article talks about how the boys of fashion’s upper-echelon menswear shows are often paid next to nothing, or just plain nothing and paid in trade–like a peacoat or a pair of shoes. Despite being pretty and leading jet-set lives, the boys aren’t generally compensated with much cash or fame, and should probably just give up and whore themselves already.
Financially speaking, male modeling is not unlike being a straight-male porn star: The men have always made less than the women, and very few become big names. For most magazine work, models are paid less than $250. Twenty percent of that goes to the agency, which also bills models for their board and expenses. “Sometimes you get charged for things you never thought of,” says Petey, “like $30 a month to be on the website.”
We’d like to point Francois Sagat and RJ Danvers to this article, in case they start thinking again about leaving porn for mainstream modeling.
photos by Mike Albo for NY Mag
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