Girl Model

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21?

Spasiba.

She maybe never had the body, though.

Oh, really? Wow.

There's some cute girls.

There's some nice ones.

One of these.

Wow.

How old is she?

I'll try.

I'm looking for a specific type of girl

for the Japanese market.

Everybody has their own vision of beauty,

and it's hard, sometimes, to bypass

my own personal aesthetic preferences,

but for Japan, it is quite specific,

so the girls have to be a certain

height, not too tall, cute, young.

Young is very important.

It's not entirely up to me.

I make note of what I see today,

then I review it with our board in Tokyo.

We have Musako, a booker,

Masaya, the owner,

Kazumi, another booker,

so it's a group decision.

And often, it's not

what I believe is the best.

Sometimes the girl that

I think is so amazing for Japan

doesn't work at all, so that's

what's exciting about this business.

It's totally unpredictable,

so nobody knows.

Mmm. It's very good for Japan.

Mmm. Mmm.

Filming?

No, no. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to video her.

OK, stay here, Nadya.

Can you come here, closer?

Closer. Can you open your hair?

Say hello, Nadya.

From Novosibirsk.

OK.

Just see how long it is, OK?

Perfect. Thank you. Spasiba.

OK.

Hello.

Hello.

I love to travel!

I love the trains, especially

the toilets. I miss them!

I miss this, you know?

"The concept of Noah was simple. "

Just like Noah saved all the animals,

I'm trying to save all these young girls.

That's what I'm doing.

I'm putting them on the plane,

sending them to the West,

giving them a chance

where they can find themselves,

develop as women,

grow as individuals,

and I hope that someday they'll

do some good to the other people.

So, in a way, for me,

this is a religious matter.

This is my bible.

Ashley will be my western partner.

We also have problems in the West,

and it's also a difficult,

uphill battle there,

but it's a different problem,

so together we'll be a great team.

The depth of the psychology

involved, you know.

We go very, very deep

with the girl, trying to understand

all her problems,

trying to understand the parents.

We, sort of, at the end, form a profile.

And we try to replace those fathers

and support them in any way we can.

You know, in certain cities

you must have trustworthy people,

so then they can find

the girls at much earlier stages

and pre-screen them until we get there.

This is strategically very important.

Before anybody else can

get there, we'll have the girls.

Yeah, those are pretty.

She's so cute.

Yes.

Can you send me

her pictures just to follow?

Yeah, sure.

'They love skinny girls in Japan,'

and she has a fresh, young face.

She looks young,

almost like a prepubescent girl.

It's a great freedom not be employed...

...in a nine-to-five job.

But I don't know.

The business of modelling is not something

I feel necessarily passionate about,

because it really has no weight.

It changes minute by minute,

and it's based on nothing.

If you start to look at all those girls,

and you really look at each one

and you bring them close to you,

and you look in their eyes

and look in their faces,

you can start to see their age

and their experience,

and the business is obsessed with youth,

and especially my business in Japan.

You can't be young enough,

and youth is beautiful,

because there's a luminosity,

there's something in the skin.

There's something innocent.

That's what my eye has been

trained to see from Japan.

So I look at beauty and I think

of young girls, beautiful.

We had a really good casting yesterday.

Really beautiful girls, quite productive.

There were, like, 200 girls.

Probably, like, six girls, seven girls.

So I want to pick, maybe,

30 really great girls

that I know I can confirm.

OK, Tigran, I'll talk to you

again. OK, bye.

Tigran is a really hard-core business.

He's done what nobody else

in this business has done, like,

the money he's made.

Whereas, when I work with Japan,

they don't know what I do, where I go.

As long as I bring them the girls.

I have no job description of what I do

or what I'm supposed to bring them.

They cover my expenses and I get a

commission of whatever I bring them.

So that is freedom.

I can kind of get away with not really

caring about this business that much.

But I never like to think

of myself as an ex-model.

I never like to bring that point up.

But, of course, it does

bring a different insight.

But I was the person that hated

this business more than anybody,

and now I'm 15 years in it.

This whole place is hurting me too much.

Even if I do ten jobs

in the next two weeks,

there won't be any money for me

by the time I cover my expenses.

Fashion is so boring to me these days.

I don't even like to look at the magazines.

I mean, I do, but it's just

all the same stuff all the time.

Anyone who does it must be an idiot.

So what are you trying to say?

What would you rather do?

Poetry? Yeah.

Girl, what happened to you in Tokyo, huh?

What's this twister taking you away for?

Is it really worth it?

Model?

Yes.

OK?

OK.

Take off your shoes.

OK.

What? Shoes?

Take off shoes.

Ah.

Oh. Yeah?

Yeah.

To live in a glass house.

It's great in the daytime,

but scary at night.

When I stay here alone, I get scared.

It's like, if you're inside with the

lights on, people can see you,

but you can't see them, and

then there's, like, weird sounds.

It's pretty isolated.

They're sleeping.

One boy and one girl.

I got them from a dollar store,

or something.

When I bought my house,

I got the babies at the same time.

I felt like I had a home,

so I should have a baby.

I was 23 at the time.

I had three, but then I dissected one.

I mean, the models that we meet

in Russia are really little girls,

just the babies,

but they're not my children.

I mean, I'm not at that point yet.

I'm in that precarious place

where they don't really know,

like, can they be my friend?

I care about the girls a lot.

I don't feel, like, inspired by...

I don't know. No, I do really

care about the girls. It's just...

I don't feel so...

Like I have some, you know,

big truth to tell them

about the amazing business,

that I'm going to change their lives

and make them be fulfilled,

because it's very tough.

Very tough business.

I'm trying to remember how I felt

the first time I landed in Japan.

I'm having a hard time

remembering the first flight,

but I remember walking into the agency,

and meeting with Sako, who was my booker.

The Japanese always want something new.

And it's the best place

for the new face to come,

so Tigran wants to send

his models to Japan,

then Messiah wants to

receive the new models.

It's more convenient to have me in New York

where I can meet girls in New York,

fly to Europe, cover certain regions,

so they pay me a small

commission to be the scout.

'Cause Messiah is 40,

and the models are 13.

So...

Messiah... Messiah.

Messiah owns Switch. He loves, I mean...

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