Met in person
Every portrait is set beside the woman herself before it goes up.
Photo PolicyHow each portrait is checked
A window is only worth looking into if what is on display is what you get. The same rule runs every portrait in The Selection: nothing goes up until it has been held against the woman herself, and nothing stays up once it stops looking like her.
Below: the kind of pictures these are, the two checks in the order they happen, what you are owed if a picture ever misleads, then the editing we accept and refuse. It all applies whichever district she travels from and whichever hotel in Around Town she is heading to.
Every portrait is set beside the woman herself before it goes up.
A face may be blurred for her privacy. It is never replaced or reshaped.
When her look changes, the pictures change with it.
Glamour and lifestyle photography: evening wear, hotel interiors, city streets after dark. Faces are often softened so that nobody is recognised by a neighbour or a colleague. None of it is explicit, none of it shows nudity, and none of it is stock, borrowed from elsewhere or made by software. The companion chooses or approves every image.
No profile exists until the companion has met the desk in person. The desk reads her identity document, which settles her name and shows she is eighteen or older. The age on her card is taken from that document, and the other facts on her profile, height, hair and eye colour, languages, are confirmed at the same meeting rather than copied from a form.
Every photograph she proposes is held up next to her, one at a time. A picture that could leave you expecting someone different, because of the angle, the age of the shot or the retouching, is set aside. Only the pictures that pass go into the window.
Say so at the door, before the booking begins. She leaves, you owe nothing, and Clementine would like a message that same night, in the chat you used on the booking page. Her window goes dark until both checks above have been repeated.
Allowed: light, colour and contrast, cropping, compression for fast pages, and softening a passing blemish. Refused: reshaping a face or figure, changing her apparent age, placing her in a scene she never stood in, and any photograph that puts one woman's face on another woman's profile.
A companion decides which images appear and can have one picture or her whole profile removed with a single message, without giving a reason. When she stops working with the desk, her photographs are deleted from the site and never reused.
A new haircut or a new colour means new pictures, not an argument about the old ones. Sets are reviewed in rotation even when nothing seems to have changed. Ask Clementine before booking and she will tell you the month in which a companion's portraits were last compared with her.
For the companion's privacy. Softening stops a portrait being recognised by people who know her, and she decides how much. It never changes what she looks like: shape, age and features stay exactly as they are.
No. Each age comes from her identity document at the in-person meeting and moves on with her birthday. The age bands in the filters, such as late twenties, are drawn from the same figures.
Tell Clementine. The companion is asked, the pictures are compared with her again, and anything that has stopped representing her is replaced.
Each portrait was checked against the woman herself. Choose on that footing and write when ready.