My name is Gloria Yoshino Bellissimo, but my model name is like "Yoshino Belli"
so everyone calls me Belli and
This year is the second year in model agency and
I'm just enjoying this job because it's really nice. I mean I
I meet so many people
from different countries and so many different clients and every time you have to
sometimes act for some CM
You know so it's like enjoying every time this job
Yeah
it started with a request for talent agency actually not model one
And I was WOW. They scouted me? okay, but I so I just
Like searched on internet some stuff about this talent agency, and I was like. I mean I don't really know maybe
For start is like better
model agency, so I just sent my emails to many model agencies, and then I choose one and
It has started
And what's your Mother Agency at the moment?
it's Wildflower model agency
Yeah, they have international and helf in Japanese (models).
They have two agency actually one in Osaka in one in Tokyo so
My boss actually is I think is more in Osaka than Tokyo
but I meet her like once a month something like that
so yeah, we talk about some stuff and you
know some
To look at the book and just organize the photos and talk about works of course
and it's something like that and
Yeah, and work team looks like good. I mean there are many
managers, and they are kind every time they just send me messages for every news and
Yeah, it's like good
I'm half Italian half Japanese and I was born in Italy actually
and I came here just three years ago
And I didn't know
Almost at all the language the Japanese so I had to study for
One year and a half something like that
it's kind of a privilege being "hafu"
in modeling industry here, is it really popular?
Looks like in Japan this period is good for "half" people
I don't know why actually... but suddenly "half" people is like requested so much and
Yeah, maybe more than Japanese but not more than international
I think yeah every time the castings of course they ask
Where are you from what type of "hafu" are you?
and what type of jobs are you doing? So
How do you think if you wouldn't speak Japanese
Would you be able to work
In the same agency here, yeah
Yeah, I mean if I
was like international model, I guess I could, but
If I have to work like "half" model actually it's better to know Japanese
If you ask me why?
Because every time the client is asking you something so you have to answer somehow
So the manager is not there in the casting so it's different from international models,
so every time you have to
answer on your own and be
Proud of yourself and just answer yeah
What are the requirements for the local models here
my height is 170
so I'm not so tall
depends from the agency some agency
accept like from
165 and as some others from
168 so it depends, but yeah, I'm in the middle so it's okay
Japanese clients don't really like maybe
Curvy yeah something like this they prefer more skinny and skinny and also like
maybe white skin
Yeah, yeah
like yeah
Asian standard sometimes you can also feel like racist in somehow you know so
But I'm not the client. I'm not the one who decides I'm the model so I can't tell so much you know
Tell me a bit more about the castings
How do they go and what do you usually wear for the castings?
How many castings a day do you have or you have some kind of a schedule?
it depends from the period of course,
but it's totally different from international models, and we have
like five six castings a week and
Yeah, it's like sometimes just bookings most of the time castings and
What I wear in the castings
actually some
Neutral clothes, I mean basic casual ones
And not so strange clothes, but sometimes they require you some specific clothes
something like I don't know
Skirt or just sports bra or something like these so you have to wear like that
but the other times just yeah basics and
Also, the makeup just natural makeup. Yeah
I guess I'm lucky because I really have
Different jobs every time so it's like
I really like Bridal shootings
yeah, because
you know
Somehow every girl wants to wear this dress, so every time
It's like different dress and you can
you can like love the atmosphere you know because cakes
the biscuits and everything yeah every detail there
Yeah, so you enjoy also the panorama because of course it's shooting so you go to beautiful places
Always like two days of shooting so you have to somehow
Communicate with other models,
so it's good because in the other shooting you do your job you finish and you go home
So Bridal shooting is like more
Chance to know other people and communicate more than other jobs
and maybe a sport shooting
I like to move I like to run like I did karate actually
So it's like I love every type of movements
including shooting so
And by the way how do you stay fit? do you go to the gym or something like that?
Right now. I'm not doing so much. I mean in the past. There was more sporty
I went to
Karate dojo I went to swimming pool for six years
and right now. I just run sometimes
and maybe
twice a month I go to the gym, so
yeah, sometimes swim
It's really like depends on the mood and also my schedule
because sometimes. I just want to
sleep or just
Watch a movie or something like this yeah,
What I eat. Actually I eat everything
I am not a vegetarian or vegan
but I'm just trying to
Eat carbohydrates in the morning so until lunch
Carbohydrates and after lunch. I just eat proteins and
vegetables and something like this
about sweets trying to
Not eat them at all,
but sometimes you eat them. It's like. Oh my god what I did
It's like tragedy you know,
but yeah, it's like just and I think the secret is the balance you have to
Eat everything but in the moderate way,
so if you eat everything also for your body is good so
It's like just how much I had to eat
so the morning and the lunch just it's just
carbohydrates and
less protein and vegetables and then in the dinner more protein and vegetables
So it's like just I think the balance yeah
What are the positive and negative sides of being a model here, in Japan
Okay, you have this opportunity with this model job
And you can travel sometimes so it's like great opportunity my case in Japan
so I can discover more about this my other country, so it's like a
Fortune yeah, and the negative one. I don't know maybe as I said before there are some
Prejudices, still here in Japan about you know the white skin and
the skinny type
They are requested more
So it's like every time you have to be like this because if you are not you can't get any job
So you have you try to be more like
skinny than you are and
They don't look at you like who you really are as a person
The look at you like product somehow yeah, so this is
Still a problem in the model world I think
but you know little by little there are some progresses
but somehow the asking you your
origin, so
So something about you yeah, right, so I'm just wondering why you are asking me where are you from?
when just need your look
Yeah, my look you know, and so it's like a contradiction somehow
and they see your book your photos, and then they just
take picture of you in that moment and
Sometimes you're just asking yourself, but why they're just
Acting like this before if they they do many questions about you about your yeah of course career and but also about your
origin and when you've started to and when you started to do sports and something like this and it's like
Okay, yeah, I don't I don't know this that's all I mean okay. If you're really interested about me. You should more I
ask more and
Do some questions and but real questions not like because "I have to"
It's like because I'm interested about you
so or if you don't mind just
Look at my book and say yes or no
The advices for the models
OK, maybe
They should study a little bit Japanese
Because it's good for
Clients I mean it's good in good impression. Yeah, and
The clothes
Important also I mean they should wear something basic
like yeah, I don't know white black
clothes so the client can concentrate about
This girl
Yeah, not these clothes, but what type of person are you
you know somehow this competition
Mostly here in Tokyo is so high so
To get some good job it's really difficult
And every time castings there are I don't knowlike
100 people something like this and then at the end they choose like one person so it's like oh my god
I have to fight like this lol
But somehow just
It's like okay this time I didn't pass but next time I will do better
Yeah, sure
Then I think that's it. - okay
Thank you so much for meeting me
You welcome, thank you to you
It was really nice talking to you
Same. Hope we will meet again
I hope we will work together in the nearest future
-Yeah, same. - And I wish you all the best in your career
Thank You Tatiana
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