This is something more people should be talking about. I briefly modeled clothes and made next to nothing from it, other than getting a few cool pictures and the chance to say I did it. Even the models wearing thousand dollar clothes in the pages of fashion magazines barely make anything from those shoots. A few years ago, an invoice from a Vogue shoot made its way onto social media and revealed that the models were getting paid around $300 per shoot. Runway pays similar. A lot of photographers won’t even pay for shoots, as plenty of models will do it for free just to add some photos to their portfolios. The real money comes from partnerships and regular ad campaigns with makeup or perfume brands, which very few are lucky enough to get.