France wants to introduce an amendment banning excessively thin models. Pressure has mounted to move away from the ultra-slim look. And more important, to feed them,” says designer Diane Von Furstenberg. And in terms of the youth, we encourage not to have girls under 16 on the runway. “I think that the important thing is that we don’t encourage young girls to be too thin, so that’s the health. The fashion industry has often been accused of promoting anorexia when using underweight models.

Some designers insist that the real issue is not age but health. We think that’s really important, we work closely with the agencies, if there’s a young girl that’s here for the first time, certainly they’ll be chaperoned,” says British Fashion Council Chief Executive, Caroline Rush. ‘‘So all of the designers that are contracted to London Fashion Week, the models must be 16 or over. The British Fashion Council has introduced new guidelines as has New York state. However, there have been industry moves to change things, notably during the biannual catwalk shows. Kate Moss was scouted when she was 14 and Naomi Campbell when she was just 15. The use of young models in fashion is not new. I’m an opportunist, a fashion opportunist, but there’s nothing bad about that because that’s our business,” he says.

That’s the girls of the moment, fashion is about the moment. They can identify even if it’s not the same age group. However, following revelations that some of the images may constitute child pornography, a moderator has warned that any images featuring Maroney or Lee 'will be immediately removed'.Chanel recently recruited 16-year-old Lily-Rose Depp, daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis for its eyewear campaign.Ĭhanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld is pragmatic: “The public wants to see them (clothes, glasses) on girls like this. The hacked photographs were originally thought to have been posted on a 'deep web' forum a week ago, but it was only when the images were subsequently uploaded to the 4chan anonymous image-sharing forum on Sunday that they were circulated widely.Īccording to online news organisation The Daily Dot, the Reddit community r/TheFappening has become the main hub for sharing the stolen photographs, because Reddit is one of the few mainstream websites that is not deleting links to the photos. The images so far released online are believed to represent only a fraction of a vast archive of explicit photographs that a group of hackers has been amassing for months, possibly by compromising the stars' iCloud accounts. But her lawyer has reportedly sent a letter to several pornography sites that have reposted the images, demanding that they remove them because Maroney was underage in several of them. Maroney, an Olympic gold medallist and world champion gymnast, tweeted that the photos of her posted online this week were 'fake'.

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