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For a girl who's interested in fashion, what
would be the dream job? Being a model? Probably no - that's for a pencil thin
who doesn't eat. One answer is, fashion stylist.
As more brands open stores in China
to expand their reach, the increase in outdoor advertising might light a
stylist spark in a girl's heart. Fashion magazine offices are crowded with
interns (实习生), and fashionable
brand HR managers get thousands of resumes of people looking for a stylist
position.
"It looked too high before, but now I
find it more approachable," said Xue Rui, 22, a
Fudan University Chinese literature graduate who
works as an assistant stylist at Hermès in Shanghai. "There is
no certain principle in dressing up models, and you can try every way with your
own distinct taste to make them pretty and attractive."
The attractiveness of this line of work is
not only in the fabulous clothes. And it's not like it used to be: an insider's
job with little recognition and even less money. Now it's a career with a
profile, prospects and pay packet.
Girls can find it hard to ignore this tempt
and the field is opening up to normal girls, not only style or fashion design
majors. "A fashion designer knows how to make a dress pretty, but a
stylist knows how to make a person beautiful, from head to toe," explained
He Qing, 21, a junior in fashion design at the Beijing
Institute of Fashion Technology.
"You have to be 'all-round':
from hair and make up to clothes, shoes, and accessories(配饰) to the event," said He. "You have to know everything,
and handle several things at the same time. It's challenging. That's why I love
it."
It's not, however, without its downside, no
matter how great you may think it is, "It's incredibly hard work,"
said Chen Qianzhu, a stylist at the Chinese version
of Elle magazine. "You need to build good relations with various people -
stars, photographers, PR managers, other media, even airlines."
You need to take care of clothes in the
workplace and pay for even a tiny spot you get on them, Chen said. "The
worst thing is that you might work extremely hard for a week on some serious
photos, but if the chief's not satisfied, you do them all over again."
72. A fashion stylist has to do the following EXCEPT _______.
A. make every effort to dress up models
B. make a model attractive, from hair to
feet
C. pay for a tiny stain happening to the
clothes
D. not to eat and keep a thin figure like a
pencil
73. Xue Rui, He Qing
and Chen Qianzhu are mentioned in the passage in
order to ______.
A. show the strengths and weaknesses of the
new type of career
B. compare the different changes about the
occupation
C. make the article interesting and
convincing
D. support an idea by giving enough evidence
74. The underlined
world 'all-round' in Paragraph 6 can be replaced by ______.
A. all-star
B. all-out
C. all-powerful
D. all-purpose
75. Where can the
passage be found?
A. In a newspaper.
B. In a magazine.
C. In an advertisement.
D. In an essay written by a graduate.
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