What is Model (person)?
{{more citations needed|date= July 2021}} [[File:Jean Shrimpton (1965) 2.jpg|thumb|230px|Jean Shrimpton in 1965]] [[File:Alexandra Park, Elizabeth Hurley, William Moseley & Merritt Patterson 2015 TCA Press Tour (cropped).jpg|thumb|280px|Actors as models: the cast of ''The Royals'']] [[File:Manet, Edouard - Olympia, 1863.jpg|thumb|280px|[[Édouard Manet]]'s painting of Victorine Meurent as a [[prostitute]]. ''Olympia'', 1863. [[Toulouse-Lautrec]], who also used her as a model, used to introduce her as 'Olympia'. She went on to become an artist herself.]] [[File:École des beaux-arts (from the live).jpg|thumb|280px|[[Nude]] art model posing in a French painting school]] A '''model''' is a person who has the [[job]] of using their body to pose for [[art]], or to show [[fashion]] items, such as [[clothes]] or [[jewellery]]. Models often appear in advertising on [[television]] and in print [[media]], for example [[newspaper]]s and [[magazine]]s, or on the [[Internet|web]]. == First model == The first person described to work as a [[fashion]] model was [[Paris]]ian shopgirl, [[Marie Vernet Worth]]. She was a 'house' model in 1852, for her [[fashion design]]er husband at the ''[[haute couture]]'' [[House of Worth]]. == Commercial models == There are many different types of models. Some models only use certain parts of their [[body|bodies]]. For example, a ''hand model'' is a person who only uses their [[hands]]. A hand model would be used to display certain items, for example [[ring]]s and [[watch]]es. These models are mostly used for advertisements. Fashion models are used to sell clothing or [[cosmetics]]. People who make clothing will often use fashion models to wear the clothing they make at [[fashion show]]s. The models will walk up and down a [[wikt:raise|raised]] section of [[floor]] called the [[catwalk]] or ''runway'' to show the clothing to other people. Some exclusive 'fashion houses' also use models to show off their [[dress]]es to [[client]]s. This idea was invented by [[Charles Worth]]. Photographers us