Original upload date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT
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As someone who was abused as a child model, I am calling for the Department of Labor to define and enforce labor protections in the fashion industry. 54% of models begin working on or before the age o
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f 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. Indentured to their agencies, young models often return home from far away locales traumatized and with little to no compensation. The global clothing and textiles industry now generates upward of 2.5 trillion dollars a year. Fashion can afford to offer positive work environments for ALL employees.
In 2013, 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.
Please join me in helping to improve labor conditions for these young workers by compelling our government to consider a federal law.
Please sign the Change.org petition:
https://www.change.org/petitions/secretary-of-labor-protect-children-in-the-fashion-industry-from-exploitation
I have written about this subject for the New York Times, New York magazine, and the New York Observer.
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