Fashion Models Face Sexual Abuse, Financial Exploitation, Unsafe Sets
The fashion world's dark underbelly includes sexual abuse, life-threatening photo shoots, financial exploitation and more.
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The fashion world's dark underbelly includes sexual abuse, life-threatening photo shoots, financial exploitation and more.
Opponents of the bill argue that models are independent contractors, which make them responsible for the work environment, not the company.
Introduced in the state legislature last year, Fashion Workers Act seeks employment protections for models and others in the industry.
Lagerfeld infamously said models who didn't want their "pants pulled down" by abusers should join a "nunnery" instead. The Model Alliance would like a word.
The Model Alliance is calling on New York State lawmakers to pass the Fashion Workers Act, which would bring regulation to the $1.7 trillion industry ahead of the Met Gala honoring the late "problematic" designer Karl Lagerfeld.