barbarap2, I completely agree with you about the magazine shoots! There are photographic studios in all major cities for Heavens sake, no-one needs to go to a tropical island with fashion assistants, make-up artists, hairdressers etc!.
I was first aware of the cost of this when travelling to Mauritius from Paris with Air France. The seats in front of us were occupied by some gorgeous looking youngsters. As it was a long flight, we made friends with them and it turned out they were photographic models, all booked into top hotels and the first few days of the 'work' was to get a suntan!! They were lovely people though, and shared their champagne with us throughout the 13 hours. My French got steadily worse of course(!)
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