A badly kept secret?
The article.
Something to think about,
Probably something better to forget. Have you seen any recent videos of Demarchelier? He seems as able to chase skirts as do I! First, he'd need motivation and then an assistant - at least one.
I wouldn't trust any of those "reports" unless I was an eye witness. The industry is - or was until the mid-80s at which time I was out, full of so-called willing rapes. The competition is so fierce and the desire to get work so strong, for ego if not money, that people are willingly to pay any price that somebody may decide they want to extract. Pay the price? Hell, many are in it just
for that ride. I have known them.
If you have experience of working all day long at very high mental pressure under a hot sun, having extended lunches to avoid direct overhead sunshine, filling the while with unusual foods and bottle after bottle of "expenses" wine, then no wonder things are easily put in motion, and as everybody knows that it takes at least two to tango, the point of view of people foreign to the business counts for very little, unless they are lawyers ready to make a killing from yet another rich cat worth suing.
If you are an active part of that business you very quickly understand if it is or is not for you. Nobody but yourself holds a gun at you ego. Truth to tell, it was one reason that I began to insist my wife come along on foreign trips: it was hard enough making good pictures without having to handle other stuff too.
The current climate of politically correct madness is just that: madness. If you don't like the club, stay the fuck away.
And the relevance of the late Princess Di beats me; just more newspaper shit designed to construct fantastical bridges in the air and an excuse to rake the ashes of a long-dead romance between an equally dead foreigner and princess. Some folks love that stuff because it fills the void of their own life.
Rob
