Fashion workers are detailing stories of abuse, being pimped out to predatory men like Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, and going unpaid for months.
Tuesday features the stories of more than a dozen models and other related workers who say the modeling agencies who represented them
. It’s common knowledge that models have always been held to unattainable body standards, but some of the details these people provided are far worse than previously imagined.reports, was 15 years old when she was scouted by the New York agency Click Model Management. She was 5-foot-11 and 130 pounds, but was told she looked “too mature,” otherwise known as “too heavy” in the fashion industry, because she’d developed curves like any other teenager.
When Seay-Reynolds was 16, she shot with a photographer who had been publicly accused of sexual coercion. She says she once received $130 for a total of six weeks of work, and was later forced to climb a glacier in high heels before getting naked in freezing weather—a gig she says she was never paid for. And despite already losing weight, Seay-Reynolds was encouraged to stave off her hunger by chewing cotton balls.
“The modeling industry really does in some cases rise to the level of trafficking—labor trafficking and sex trafficking,” says Ziff, who helps educate models about their rights within the industry and is currently fighting to improve their workplaces. “This lack of transparency, the power imbalance, the vulnerability of these mostly young, immigrant women, it’s a recipe for exploitation.
The Assembly is expected to return later this month for a final vote on the act—and let’s hope it actually does something.
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