Model puts off ‘lifetime chance’

Press, 28 July 1986, Page 6

Model puts off ‘lifetime chance’

PA Auckland The teen-age mannequin, Rachel Hunter, has put off a $lOO,OOO chance-in-a-lifetime offer to model in Paris this winter.

The Auckland model, aged 16, who worked on the Simon Le Bon Sasson jeans commercial last summer, had the chance to sign with the prestigious Parisian agency, Karin Models, and work for high fashion French glossies, “Vogue” and “Elie” magazine. The statuesque Miss Hunter has put off the Continental trip until January because she wants more modelling experience close to home before joining the cutthroat French fashion race.

The Glenfield model fears she is too young to live away from home in a non-English-speaking country for 12 months as a contract with Karjn re-

quires. The delay has attracted criticism from some in the New Zealand fashion industry, who say most young models would jump at the chance of international success.

Miss . Hunter, has appeared in a number of television commercials and was selected by the English photographer, David Hamilton, as a potential top earner. The Karin owner, Jean Luc Brunel, said from Paris, “Rachel is fabulous. She has beautiful hair, face, hands and figure. She has a lot of potential. But when she arrives in Paris, she will have to want to work hard to make it.”

He says a young model in Paris can earn about $lBl,OOO a year. Meantime, Rachel Hunter has just returned from Sydney, where she modelled for Australian “Vogue.”