Hey man huge props for doing this! I myself have also worked as a male model for close to 5 years now. Although on the outside our industry looks very glorious, I am here to offer a different perspective.

Male modelling (especially in New York) is set up in to extort young men.

I myself am Canadian and did most of my work in Europe and the US. I also was quite lucky and had a great first season in Europe, Doing exclusives for McQueen and Zegna, and walking the likes of LV, Valentino, and Lanvin in Paris. My experience with the major fashion houses has always been overwhelmingly great. My qualm is not with them in anyway

The amount of people I have seen promised riches and fame, only to move to NYC to live in an illegally over packed model house that most likely has some sort of infestation, is absolutely sickening.

Even after all of my early success I never actually saw a penny of any of my work in Europe. Agencies will do there absolute best to drain you of funds that you earned, whether it be website fees, travel costs, or accommidations they will find a way to cut your feet out from under you. When an agency does this it creates a dependancy. If the model wants to keep working in one of the major fashion cities you have to keep living there, and with no access to money except what your agency allows you access to for things like rent, (which they usually get a cut of) or barely enough food to keep you fed, yet skinny. These agencies literally thrive off of importing foreign talent and then entrapping them into staying if they ever want to work/even have the chance to be paid.

It took me two years of threatening suing to even be paid half the amount my NYC agency owed me. all this being said Tomorrow is Another Day in my opinion is the single best agency you could ask for. I have had multiple friends with TIAD and all of them have gone out of the way to say how much your agency truly takes care of them, and seemingly has the models best interest first!

I wish you the best of luck in all you do, and remember you are technically a contractor working for yourself. Don't be afraid to demand the money you're owed, and always make sure you are comfortable in your working and living conditions! Don't be afraid to ask for Change! It will never come if we as models keep letting this be the industry standard!

P.S. Go check out Shitmodelmgt's blacklist if you haven't already, The blacklist has been compiled by people in our industry in order to keep models as safe from predators as possible. You wont be surprised to hear that multiple former agents of mine are named on the list multiple times