What was the most glamorous part of your career?

What was the most glamorous part of your career?

Jonathan Phang (Model booker) gives expert video advice on: How much travel is involved in being a model booker?; What was the most glamorous part of your career?; Are many of your friends are fashion designers or models? and more...

When you do a job that you enjoy, you don't really think of it in glamorous terms; you think: "This is, what I'm supposed to be doing, this is why I get to pay my mortgage every month." I was very blasé about being a model booker by the end of it. Now, of course, I sit in an office in West London and I don't go anywhere and I sort of miss it, but now I realise that it was glamorous, particularly to people that weren't involved in it, because it was work and I was always tired and people demand so much from you in such an individual way. Travelling became a dread of mine. I think, just before ending my career as a model agent, I went to the Nelson Mandela Children's' Foundation Versace show in South Africa, and every Star girl was there. There was Shalom Harlow, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Amber Valetta, Bridget Hall, Susie Bick, Kate Moss - the whole lot of them. At the aftershow party it was the one time I wished I had kept a camera with me, because I don't have very many memoirs of my twenty years of representing girls at all and I regret it now. There was Christy Turlington, Naomi, Amber and Shalom dancing around handbags to some disco song, and I thought, "God, actually this is almost historic, isn't it?" All the Versace crew were there and it's like, "Wow, there are a lot of people that would really kill to be in this party, and I am." And I thought, "Get me home and I'll give it all up", but I suppose that was really probably my high point and low point at the same time.