"As someone who was abused as a child model, I am calling for the creation of an action committee to define and enforce labor protects in the fashion industry. 54% of models begin working on or before the age of sixteen. Agencies start recruiting at age thirteen. Many of the pictures in your favorite fashion magazines are little girls dressed up to look like women. This past fall, New York State passed the Child Model Law, granting protections for minors working as models in the fashion industry. Protections such as school-night curfews and on-set hour limits, chaperones, tutors and mandatory financial trusts are now law. Endentured to their agencies, models often return home traumatized and with little to no compensation. With the global clothing and textiles industry now generating upward of 2.5 trillion dollars a year, fashion can afford to offer positive work environments for their models. Please join me in helping to improve the labor conditions for these young workers."
Sunday, February 23, 2014
"Stop the Abuse of Children in the Fashion Industry"
"As someone who was abused as a child model, I am calling for the creation of an action committee to define and enforce labor protects in the fashion industry. 54% of models begin working on or before the age of sixteen. Agencies start recruiting at age thirteen. Many of the pictures in your favorite fashion magazines are little girls dressed up to look like women. This past fall, New York State passed the Child Model Law, granting protections for minors working as models in the fashion industry. Protections such as school-night curfews and on-set hour limits, chaperones, tutors and mandatory financial trusts are now law. Endentured to their agencies, models often return home traumatized and with little to no compensation. With the global clothing and textiles industry now generating upward of 2.5 trillion dollars a year, fashion can afford to offer positive work environments for their models. Please join me in helping to improve the labor conditions for these young workers."
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I have known about this for years and the worst industry is the cosmetic industry.
Hair products; watch a commercial with a woman with long hair 'swinging' it softly. you can see the hair is nice soft and silky; take a CLOSE look at her face, as the video stated these are young girls 14 -16 years old.
They're trying to convince women 25 and older they to can have soft and silky hair any time they want.
I loved it when Suave went with real women to advertise their products. The industry produces a false sense of what women should look like. Most men aren't interested in skin and bones, like some of the models sport. Women need to be celebrated, instead of chastised or feeling guilty for their natural curves and softness.
Do you know that women's bodies need to be at least 23-25% fat to produce the hormones necessary for reproduction to occur?
Btw, I think I still have soft and silky hair any time I want. ;>
You do, kk, you do.
I'm not well informed on this dimension of child abuse. However, none of Jennifer Sky's allegations surprise me.
Many of the models look anorexic, and some undoubtedly are.
They use airbrushes, too, on the print ads to make women appear even more unnaturally thin.
It's all about selling an image. Like Ms. Sky says, we can't expect a for-profit industry that makes trillions of dollars off of child models to police itself. $ trumps everything in most of the real world.
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