Tokyo sounds spectacular

Hello Gilly!

I loooved your letter from Tokyo! Now I have a far better understanding of how it all works there! Before I had no idea, really.... It even made me consider going there some day... hahaha. Because you know that before I didn't even want to consider it, I had a bad idea about the whole experience. But now all I read sounded so nice! It's amazing to be driven around all day, and not have to take the metro, and change different types of transportation like everywhere else... it doesn't matter if it's rainig or snowing, if its cold... because you are in the car/van all the time. That's really cool and makes life much easier in my opinion! Also, you get payed so freakin much!!! It's unbelievable! I worked a lot for shows and presentations in New York and in different cities in Europe and nowhere the rates are that high! And, trust me, doing a presentation - standing straight without moving for 3 hours - for 100/200 dollars in your pocket (that is, if you are lucky to get payed at all), is faaaar more difficult than being driven to your castings, being introduced, trying on some stuff and then being booked!!! I am really a bit shocked and impressed! It makes me think, what am I doing? Why am I wasting my efforts and my energy and everything for the shitty presentations that are maybe the most common job in the states... for no money at all!!! Ok, they pay in trade, let's say! But the trade is almost always really ugly, 10 sizes bigger that yours, from old collections, or with a defect in the fabric, for example... and honestly, you get it 6 months later.... And only if I take a 14 hour flight to Tokyo I book real shows without being exhausted from doing 12 castings on foot, and I get payed between 2000 and 4000 dollars!!!! Oh god... :) hm... yeah, it's not bad, not bad at all!!! I am very happy that you are enjoying yourself, having fun, booking jobs, and making the most out of the experience! I am still waiting for things in Milan to pick up, but I know they will :) Miss you!!!

*Sally*