🎙️ Welcome to this episode of Creative Industry Radio - my guest today is Billy Arora 🎙️ Billy is an international fashion model and has been featured in publications like #Vogue, #Grazia and #L’Officiel and worked for luxury brands like #Hermès and #YvesSaintLaurent. She is represented by top agencies like #ELITE, #Ford, and #IMG. Beyond her modelling career, Billy has been well noticed for her education holistic nutrition and in herbalism and she started her own fashion brand #Centiments, where she incorporated literature and fashion. We recently got to work together for a Vogue Magazine Cover Story and now we sat down to unfold her remarkable career to the creative family and share some inspiration. In this conversation, we took a deep dive how Billy started out in the industry and how a Sephora campaign kicked off her international career in New York. We speak about Billys mom, also a successful model herself and how she became Billys mentor. Billy was open to talk about how it can be very hard to deal with expectations, feelings, self esteem and confidence in the industry and that models can be under insane judgements by model agencies. As we were talking about mental health, Billy openly talked about burn out and how surrendering to the circumstances and accepting and being honest with people got Billy out of this loop. Finally we have an honest discussion about social media, it’s benefits and risks, we talk about absurd face filters and how too little media competence can bring unwanted noise into your life. During the pod, Billy drops inspiring book suggestions and in the end asks you - the creative family - a question that we would love for you to answer in the comments of the instagram post to this episode with Billy. Are you ready to discover what it is like to be an international fashion model - perfect - here’s Billy - enjoy!