Rūta Mikelkevičiūtė received a real offer from the famous photographer of the magazine: you pay 25 thousand euros yourself and you are the cover star

R. Mikelkevičiūtė shared her story on her Facebook account: the woman told me the prices that the photographer indicated and shared ideas about this practice.

“You should probably be happy when you receive an offer to decorate the cover of an international brand magazine in a foreign country. Now I’ll be able to brag and show off, will you see? Well, what if I’m not a model and my persona doesn’t really care about readers from a foreign country? Such an offer caresses my self-love! After all, these magazines are also decorated with world-class celebrities and top models. But what should you feel when you receive an invoice, for example, from 7,000 to 25,000 euros? Depending on what the woman of fashion wants, “decorate” the online version (it will be cheaper) or a traditional paper magazine? Whoops!

God, curiosity got me, how is he here? All the more so that the recently known model Deimantė Guobytė was publicly outraged upon receiving a similar offer! 25 thousand and you are the cover star! “I don’t know what kind of bubble I lived in, but only a year ago I discovered that there was a business like selling covers of fashion magazines. They are not only bought by foreigners, but also by Lithuanians who want to pose as models for one reason or another, ”the model resented.

So I started talking to the photographer, this is how he introduced himself, about his offer. What conditions? 7 thousand euros for online, 25 thousand euros – for the paper version. Is it normal practice here to pay for “models” for the covers themselves, I asked? The answer is yes if you have connections! Hmmm. I’m telling you I’m not a model! He has come back to me, never mind, you were “on the covers”, it looks good! Well thank you thank you but I’ve never paid for it!

I did not do the research, I did not thoroughly verify the identity of the contestant, only what is on his Instagram account. And there are many magazine covers. We compare the person and the letters with the Diamond: the same and the prices are the same. Is this really normal practice? What do the editors of our magazines think? Maybe here a pandemic is forcing magazines and photographers to leave an often really dramatic situation, or maybe it’s just a scammer catching an honorable who wants to frame a magazine cover with himself? And the photos don’t even make it to the editorial office: no money, no photos, no style! And what do you think of that? Maybe a really normal situation, and the girl on the cover is happy, both the photographer and the magazine?

In spring, model Deimantė Guobytė spoke about this opportunity offered by photographers.

“I don’t know what kind of bubble I lived in, but only a year ago I discovered that there was a business like the cover of the covers of fashion magazines. They are not only bought by foreigners, but also by Lithuanians who want to pose as models, for one reason or another. Third parties sell covers like Elle, Bazzar, etc. They are all made to measure ”, a well-known model poured in May on the social network Instagram.

Deimantė was outraged and said that agencies always deal with professional models, who don’t usually make decisions alone.

“How to distinguish if a cover was purchased? These famous magazines are only available to professional and generally famous models, not another way around (counter). With reputable and reliable agencies that know what they are doing. Angry when every second you call a model now! No, this is not a model! Models not only look like models, but they also have serious agencies that represent them, go to castings, etc. He works in photo shoots where models are paid money, not “models” who pay magazines to photograph them. The model works for the client, not the client for the model ”, D. Guobyt<2MASCULINE> shared her thoughts.

Lithuanians who are true role models are ashamed of their profession just by pretending. Imagine that a photographer wrote to me and offered to buy a place in a magazine, “he wrote on his Instagram account.

Diamond also made the conversations with the photographers public. In one of them, the photographer offered to publish the photos in the Bulgarian magazine Elle, and also named the prices.

“For the June cover – 8 thousand. Euros, although the usual price is 25 thousand. Euros. But I need photos already taken. They would be published in the Bulgarian magazine Elle. If you are interested, I am waiting for a message”, wrote the photographer to Deimante.

D. Guobytė also shared the messages received by her friends, as well as the models. Here you would have to deposit 11 thousand to access the pages of the Indian L’officiel. The photographer describes the “Harpers Bazaar” magazine photo shoots as “very expensive”: the price of the model would reach 20 thousand euros. euros.

Diamond argued that the model, like any other professional in her field, must have a lot of experience.

“A person who has completed a three-day makeup course is not a makeup specialist. A person who installs an apartment does not become an interior designer. Haircuts do not become stylists! There are a million examples, and a woman who did a photoshoot in Lithuania and paid for the photos is not a model. I have worked as a professional model for 13 years, what can you call models that don’t even work? These are amateurs or want to become models. You have money? She can become a model in an instant ”, D. Guobytė is convinced.