Corpo-encaixe ao corpo-molde: a construção de um corpo de modelo

Abstract

Models are professionals who structure themselves as molds to depict and present products and services of the fashion, beauty and aesthetics world. Within the peculiarities and repercussions of the modelling profession, thoughtfulness over the body and its imagery projected and perceived in society are aspired. This Master’s degree dissertation presents the outcome of a field research regarding models performed from 2014 to 2016 in a Salvador modeling agency. Through oral narratives and semi-structured interviews, the present study aims to understand which body image insights models have from themselves, in the transition of the construction of model’s body in the dynamic of the body-fitting to body-mold. The delimited goal was to comprehend aesthetic pattern changes in the female body image of models, with the purpose of contextualizing the survey’s phenomenon. Analyzing the model’s narratives of theirs imagery perceptions of the transition from body-fitting to body-mold with photographs and grasp the paradox of the hip in that dynamic. The field gathered data highlights the strict relation of the body with model’s profession.