Vlada D is a 14 year old model. A famous model died during the show
Vlada D. 14- summer model from Perm, the girl flew to China to participate in shows of famous oriental designers. Two days ago she felt sick and her temperature rose sharply.
“That day the show lasted 13 hours. But he had breaks for meals, the girls had time to rest. In the evening, Vlada felt unwell, our partners sent her home to rest. The girl took her temperature, it was 40 degrees. Vlada informed her partners about this, and she was quickly taken to the hospital,” said the director of the modeling agency, Elvira Zaitseva.
A few hours later, Chinese doctors called the woman and reported that Vlad was connected to a life support machine.
“We are simply in shock, at first the doctors thought that Vlada had meningitis, but the diagnosis was not confirmed. girl in modeling business for two years now, she has never had any health problems, she does not have, and has never had anorexia. I absolutely don’t understand what happened!” - noted the director of the modeling agency.
The preliminary cause of death of the 14-year-old girl is meningococcal infection.
“We believed until the last moment that Vlad would pull through, but today at three o’clock in the morning she passed away. Scout Dmitry, who was with her in China, wrote to me: “She burned out in two days; according to statistics, 80% of cases of meningitis are fatal,” said Elvira Zaitseva.
Based on materials from the publication "TVNZ", Vlada D. last year won the title “Top Model” at the competition “Young Beauty of Perm” 2016. It is not yet known how the body dead girl will be delivered to your homeland, Vlada’s mother is preparing Required documents for transportation.
14-year-old Vlada D. worked in Shanghai for three months. On October 27, she died after two days of coma resulting from grueling work at a fashion show. As it turned out later, the girl had meningitis, but no one paid attention to the state of her health - she continued to walk along the catwalk, showing off things from designers from Asia. According to the message The Siberian Times, before the next exit Her temperature suddenly rose and a moment later she lost consciousness. After two days of coma, the 14-year-old girl died: the cause of death was called meningitis, complicated by exhaustion due to work.
Despite the fact that, according to the terms of the contract, Vlada was not supposed to work more than four hours, she worked more than eight - her friend told the publication about this 59.ru .
Later, the girl’s mother said that she complained on the phone about catastrophic fatigue and said how she wanted to sleep.
According to the publication 59.ru, the Russian consul in Shanghai said that a criminal case into Vlada’s death has not yet been opened, and he named sepsis as the cause of death against the backdrop of a severe stress reaction of the body. Now the prosecutor’s office of the Dzerzhinsky district of Perm is checking the circumstances of the girl’s death.
In the situation with Vlada’s death, it is still unclear whether the girl had insurance. After all, if a young model felt very unwell and tired, she should have consulted a doctor rather than go on the catwalk. A few days before Vlada fell into a coma, she complained to her mother about bad feeling and fatigue, but decided not to listen to my mother’s advice and bypass the doctor’s office. The question arises - why?
According to one version, despite the fact that Vlada entered into a three-month contract with a famous Chinese modeling agency, she simply did not have health insurance. While working abroad, the girl had a personal curator who was obliged to check the package of documents for the Perm model. Why the girl did not turn to him for help is unknown.
According to Ren TV, the Chinese agency Esee paid the family of the young model $800. According to a representative of the organization, Vlada was chosen through one of Russian agencies, which was supposed to issue insurance for her, but for an unknown reason it did not do this. “Then we paid the equivalent of 800 US dollars from the company’s money. And they did it as soon as the girl was admitted to the hospital,” Esee emphasized.
In turn, the director of Great Model claims that Vlada’s parents agreed on cooperation with Esee on their own.
However, the contract they signed with the company was checked by lawyers, and without the necessary documents the girl simply could not be released abroad.
Vlada went to conquer the Asian catwalk in the direction of the Perm agency, where she had been a member since she was 12 years old. In one of the interviews, the girl noted that becoming a model was her mother’s long-standing dream. Therefore, already at such at a young age she was brought to the local Great Model agency. Vlada quickly became interested in her modeling career, and success was not long in coming. Thanks to her height of 180 cm, the girl passed the casting and went to conquer the catwalks of Taiwan. The girl was noticed, and after some time Vlada already had a contract with the Chinese modeling agency Esee. Then she was invited to film in Shanghai, where young girl even took part in Shanghai Fashion Week.
Vlada is not the only Permian who managed to reach international podiums. A student of the same Great Model came to the agency at 14, and also on behalf of her mother. At first the girl resisted and considered such a profession stupid, but over time she changed her attitude towards the modeling world. Now Dasha is collaborating with the Moscow agency Look Models, which is promoting her abroad. In February current year she took part in Paris Fashion Week, and in mid-October she was filming in Tokyo.
The death of 14-year-old Vlada forced the public to start talking again about the conditions in which they live and work in China. Russian models, so popular in Asian countries. The problem, however, is not new. Back in 2014 edition Fashionista published an article about how models from Europe - mainly from Eastern Europe - work in China. The author of the article, Meredith Hattam, spoke about her work for a modeling agency, which, according to her, was run by a lady named Alina (she changed her name), former model from Ukraine. Most of the models who worked with Meredith were girls from of Eastern Europe who are under 18 years of age.
For each of them, the terms of the contract prescribed certain parameters - and if the waist, chest, hips were slightly exceeded, the girl’s payment was reduced.
They were measured daily.
The work of a model in China, according to Meredith Hattam, involves constant moving from city to city, working at car shows and fake beauty contests, and shooting for pajama catalogs. According to her recollections, the most popular of the entire group were two girls from Ukraine, 16-year-old Lana and 14-year-old Katya: for them, “being popular” meant working nine hours a day and often moving, packing at the last moment, from city to city. city (geography covers everything Largest cities, including Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Hangzhou). As the author of the article noted, for modeling agents Eastern Siberia turn out to be practically a gold mine - so much there beautiful girls who dream of going abroad.
Vlada came to China to participate in the fashion show of famous Eastern designers. However, on October 25, the girl suddenly became ill and developed a fever. The model was taken to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save her life, they report
Vlada D. is a 14-year-old model from Perm, the girl flew to China to participate in shows of famous Eastern designers. Two days ago she felt sick and her temperature rose sharply.
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“That day the show lasted 13 hours. But he had breaks for meals, the girls had time to rest. In the evening, Vlada felt unwell, our partners sent her home to rest. The girl took her temperature, it was 40 degrees. Vlada informed her partners about this, and she was quickly taken to the hospital,” said the director of the modeling agency, Elvira Zaitseva.
A few hours later, Chinese doctors called the woman and reported that Vlad was connected to a life support machine.
“We are simply in shock, at first the doctors thought that Vlada had meningitis, but the diagnosis was not confirmed. The girl has been in the modeling business for two years, she has never had any health problems, she does not have, and has never had anorexia. I absolutely don’t understand what happened!” — noted the director of the modeling agency.
The preliminary cause of death of the 14-year-old girl is meningococcal infection.
“We believed until the last moment that Vlad would pull through, but today at three o’clock in the morning she passed away. Scout Dmitry, who was with her in China, wrote to me: “She burned out in two days; according to statistics, 80% of cases of meningitis are fatal,” said Elvira Zaitseva.
According to materials from the Komsomolskaya Pravda publication, Vlada D. last year won the title “Top Model” at the “Young Beauty of Perm” 2016 competition. While it is unknown how the body of the deceased girl will be delivered to her homeland, Vlada’s mother is preparing the necessary documents for transportation.
On October 27, 14-year-old model from Perm Vlada D. died in Shanghai. Two days ago, the girl became ill right during the show, where she was at for 13 hours. Soon the model fell into a coma - doctors claimed that she had meningitis. Representatives of the modeling agency claim that the girl has never had any health problems. According to unconfirmed information, the girl worked abroad without medical insurance.
Photo: from personal archive Vlady D.
Before flying to China, scout Dmitry Smirnov allegedly told Vlada’s parents that it was not possible to obtain insurance. After the death of the model, he allegedly changed his testimony and began to claim that all the documents were in hand.
To the investigation tragic death 14-year-old Vlada was also involved in the juvenile affairs commission, the publication reports. They are interested in the performance of the young fashion model - the eighth-grader was transferred to distance learning, A most she spent time abroad.
“Unfortunately, this is not the first time that children have gotten into trouble as a result of being used for commercial purposes,” Perm Children’s Ombudsman Pavel Mikov told the publication. Now he intends to appeal to the government: modeling among children should either be prohibited or stricter rules should be established for it.
“Most likely it was due to overwork”
In the presence of multiple organ failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation syndrome develops, the doctor told 360 medical sciences Alexander Karabienko. In this condition, a person may experience multiple complications, including increased bleeding. Like meningitis, this diagnosis can be triggered by mild manifestations of ARVI. "From 13 hours of work and healthy man will fall,” Karabienko explained.
Meningitis and multiple organ failure are a manifestation of some kind of inflammatory infectious process. It can arise from anything: diseased teeth, chronic tonsillitis, insect bites, and so on.
Alexander Karabienko.
Meningitis can only appear due to infection, general practitioner Larisa Alekseeva told 360. “This was most likely due to starvation and overwork,” she said. Organic pathology in a 14-year-old girl is unlikely. Vlada could have fallen into a coma due to stress and insufficient food intake. If the girl really had meningitis, doctors would be able to save her, Alekseeva is sure.
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The Russian Investigative Committee began to clarify the circumstances of the death of 14-year-old Perm resident Vlada D., who worked as a model in Shanghai. On October 25, during the next show, the girl complained of feeling unwell and was hospitalized. In the hospital she fell into a coma and died two days later.
According to preliminary data, the cause of death of the young model was the increasing failure of vital signs. important organs and systems - a pathological condition that occurs as a result of severe infection or stress on the body.
“There is an official document - this is a death certificate from the hospital, in which the cause of death is stated: multiple organ failure due to sepsis and infectious lesions nervous system", RIA Novosti was told at the Russian Consulate General in Shanghai.
The final diagnosis, diplomats explained, will be made after the autopsy. Earlier it was reported that the girl could have died from meningitis.
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Vlada’s mother told the media that her daughter complained to her about fatigue, high temperature and work 13 hours a day. According to the contract, the girl had to work no more than four hours a day, the woman specified.
What remains unclear is whether the 14-year model has health insurance. Representatives of the Chinese agency Esee told the Russian TV channel REN that the girl did not have it, and after hospitalization, medical insurance in the amount of $800 was paid by the receiving agency.
At the same time, the Perm agency "Great Model", with which Vlada D. collaborated, stated " Komsomolskaya Pravda"that the insurance was issued. The director of Great Model did not answer calls from the BBC Russian Service.
Working as a model in China is difficult and unsafe, several fashion industry representatives told the BBC.
Veronika Sedlova, founder of the Look Models modeling agency
I'm not at all a fan of sending models to China because it's not safe there. You need to be prepared physically and mentally for China.
There's not the best favorable climate, food... Many models start using drugs and go to work in clubs.
If modeling doesn’t work out, and pocket money (money that is given to models once a week for pocket expenses - BBC) is very small - 70-100 dollars - there is nothing left to do but go to work in a club where you need to drink with guests, attract the public. They can easily slip something into your cocktail and you will lose consciousness.
If you send models to China, then only to trusted agencies, only when the girl is already 18 years old and has a head on her shoulders.
To travel abroad, including to China, you must have insurance. Insurance must be handled by the receiving agency and the agency that sends the model abroad (mother agent).
In any case, the receiving agency prepares all the necessary documents and ensures the health of the model. But, unfortunately, force majeure situations occur in our business. Naturally, the mother agent had to monitor the insurance situation. But there’s also the question that they didn’t notice [Vlada’s condition] right away and didn’t take action quickly.
Sofia Muntyan, model
I have not worked in Asia, but I have heard from my colleagues about the difficult working conditions in this region. I think that parents should monitor what is happening [with underage models].
I worked in Europe, with a full package of documents, insurance and excellent apartments. I also started my career when I was an adult. I think thanks to these factors, problems passed me by.
Daria Malygina, model
I have never worked in China, the only thing I can say is that I really believe that it is better not to engage in modeling before the age of 18. This is very hard, exhausting work, and everyone has different illnesses and different stamina.
It wasn’t difficult for me, but I remember times when I was hungry and ate the leftover pasta in the apartment. They always gave you money for food, it’s just that when you’re a child, you don’t know how to manage it correctly and it’s hard to live on $100 a week.
In an amicable way, I would introduce a law so that girls can start working [in the modeling business] from the age of 18. Because that’s not how children work.
And no matter how easy it may seem to everyone that it’s easy to walk along the catwalk or take a couple of photos, the girls have to spend a month running around to castings to do this. My record is 28 castings in a day! And you understand: you are running, there is no time to eat, you are being dumped everywhere, you are upset... Somewhere they are taking you, but for this you spent a whole month running somewhere and trying to believe in yourself.
Illustration copyright Getty Images Image caption More than ten designers from China were presented at New York Fashion Week in the fall of 2017.Nadezhda Sinelnikova (name changed), model
Work is hard in China. Whether it’s Shanghai or another metropolis, the system is the same everywhere. Agencies not only do not care about the availability of medical insurance for foreign models, they conduct a completely illegal business, inviting girls to work for tourist visa(I'm not taking Hong Kong into account). The contract that each agency offers to sign is no good. legal force does not have. This paper will not help resolve any controversial situation - I tested it myself.
The model has no rights. There is only one right - to go there again or not. Since you have already arrived, be kind enough to work as much as necessary. There are no standards for a working day. It can last from 3-4 hours to 20 hours.
No one is obliged to feed the model during the day. Payment is for every hour of filming, and only in China those five minutes that are given for lunch are then deducted from working time. They may also deduct time for going to the toilet. Or even challenge your time if it seemed like you were working too slowly.
Object? Unfortunately, girls who have not yet achieved a certain level of work or respect in the agency do not have the right to object. Either you obediently work under the proposed conditions, or you don’t work at all. Therefore, shooting a summer clothing collection in the cold winter sea is a classic. Cold kidneys and other sores are indispensable companions of such work.
Illustration copyright Getty Images Image caption The rapidly growing Chinese model market is attracting great amount girls from different countriesBut work is one side of the coin. Chinese agencies do not care much about the quality of apartments. At the best modeling agency in Guangzhou, seven of us lived in an apartment with one bathroom, without a refrigerator or stove for cooking. We slept on bunk beds and bought heaters for our rooms ourselves, because central heating in China there is no, and the air temperature in winter drops to zero. Nobody cared about this.
At the same time, the agency strictly warned that if something happened, the girls should not go to the hospital on their own. After all, there will be a lot of questions for them - you never know, they will say something wrong. Therefore on extreme case The agency always had “its” doctor. The agency always billed the model for his services.
When people ask me what I think about the modeling industry in China, I always say that it is terrible world. Not because there is envy and anger among the girls there - no. On the contrary, the girls are very much united by their common “grief.” The problem is the agency's lackadaisical attitude.
But as long as China gives young girls the opportunity to earn money, there will be an eternal line of people wanting to get there.
Illustration copyright Getty Images Image caption Work in China is often grueling, models sayNatalya Averchenko (name changed), model
I worked in China for about two years. I remember that on my first trip I filmed for several weeks without days off. And every day in a new city. It happened that filming lasted 13 hours, in a cold room. Once they shot over a hundred sets of clothes on me in a studio without heating and with a half-hour break for lunch.
Chinese customers don't notice your fatigue. And they constantly push things - they are in a hurry, because they pay by the hour. By the way, a lunch break, and sometimes just a trip to the toilet, is deducted from the payment.
In China, summer clothing collections are often shot in winter, when you have to pose for hours in the cold. I refused such filming, but there were always girls ready to work in the most difficult conditions.
The agency doesn't care how you feel. IN modeling industry get a job - great luck, so it wouldn’t even occur to anyone to ask for a day off.
All models know that China is one of the toughest markets to work in. But it is also one of the most profitable. Therefore, more and more models from all over the world are coming there. And they will prefer inhumane working conditions in China to Paris and Milan - as long as they get paid.