Aspiring models flock to take a bite of Big Apple

Three young models looking to make their mark at New York fashion week explain what it takes to be a jobbing model in the frenzied world of shows and castings.

Krystall Schott, 21, from Los Angeles, Bibi Sharipova, 22, from Kazakhstan and Arina Lubiteleva, 19, from Ukraine are impossibly tall and slender.

They might not be walking the runway for the most famous fashion houses, but they are all successful enough to live off their earnings and have been picked at castings for a slew of smaller shows.