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Guides·Money, contracts, seasons, cities
The trade, written plainly.
Short guides on what you usually learn by getting it wrong: money, contracts, seasons, cities. And three free tools that do the arithmetic for you.
Featured · Guide · 9 min
Getting paid: the 90 days, explained.
Why a fee arrives at 60, 90 or 120 days, three reminder letters written out, an agency statement read in six questions.
Free tool
The sample contract, read clause by clause.Day rate, buyout, usage, exclusivity, expenses, notice — with what’s clear, to clarify, to change. Your own contract in the app.
Read the sample →
Free toolsNet pay calculatorFrom gross to what you keep.→
Free toolsRights timelineWhen your usages expire.→
02Guide·10 minReading a modeling contract in ten minutes.A contract annotated clause by clause, the eight phrases to get clarified, what a buyout is worth.Read →
03Guide·10 minStatus, URSSAF, taxes: what a model in France needs to understand about their money.Salaried day rate, rights as royalties, sole trader or company, set-aside — with a mini calculator.Read →
04Guide·12 minBecoming a model: what nobody tells you at the first casting.Digitals, agencies, castings, options, first fee: the full path, with table and checklist.Read →
05Reference·5 minModeling glossary.Twenty-four words — option, digitals, buyout, booker, mother agency — defined in one sentence, with what Odette does with them.Read →
Money
Rates, commission, invoices, direct work — what arrives and when.
Guide·9 minHow much do models get paid?Rates by type and city, gross to net, with a calculator.
Guide·9 minGetting paid: the 90 days, explained.Terms, reminders at 60 · 85 · 91, agency statement in six questions.
Guide·7 minAgency commission, market by market.20%, 25%, mother + local — and what gets rebilled.
Free toolThe model invoice template.Eight annotated lines, PDF and Google Docs, the three reminders.
Guide·7 minModeling without an agency.Where direct work comes from, the five things you take on, how to price it.
Guide·8 minTax and status in France.Salaried via the agency, micro-entrepreneur, company — and the set-aside.
Contracts & rights
The clauses that decide your net, and the pictures that outlive the job.
Guide·8 minImage rights: three words worth more than the day.Media · territory · duration, buyout vs usage, what to do when it expires.
Guide·10 minReading a modeling contract.Day rate, buyout, exclusivity, notice — clause by clause.
Free toolContract reader.Read the sample contract clause by clause; your own in the app.
Free toolRights timeline.Enter your usages, see when each one ends.
Reference
Definitions, comparisons, the calendar, the words.
Definition·4 minWhat is a model management app?What it tracks, what it is not, when you need one.
Comparison·8 minFive ways to run a modeling career, compared.Notes, Notion, invoicing apps, agency portal, Odette — ten criteria.
ReferenceThe fashion week calendar.Twelve months, eight cities, casting weeks and digitals dates.
GlossaryThe words of the trade.Option, buyout, comp card, statement — one line each.
Guide·12 minHow to become a model.Agencies, castings, digitals, first job.
Working as a model in…
Eight markets: seasons, agencies, money, visa — and what Odette keeps in order in each.
