One week after a groundbreaking research revealed the abuses endured by home-based garment workers in India, of whom 95 percent are female, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published a report calling on the apparel sector to do more to combat sexual harassment against women and girls across the supply chain. HRW found that sexual harassment is...
13 Feb 2019
The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have helped to shed a new light upon the prevalence of sexual misconduct and abuse in the modelling industry. Many models start their careers at a very early age: according to a survey conducted by non-profit organization Model Alliance, 55 percent of working models based in New York and Los Angeles started...
7 Sept 2018
Nike Inc. has been sued for sexual discrimination by former female employees who said that women were "devalued and demeaned" at the company, passed over for promotions, paid less than their male counterparts, and ignored when they complain. The news was first reported by Bloomberg. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Portland, Oregon, seeks...
10 Aug 2018
The Boston Globe published a bombshell expose on Friday accusing more than two dozen professionals in the fashion industry, among them legendary photographer Patrick Demarchelier, of sexual misconduct. The paper's Spotlight team, which in 2002 unveiled widespread sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Boston, said more than 50 models had detailed...
17 Feb 2018
Everyone in the fashion industry is aware of the blurred lines that exist between creativity and sexuality, none so more prevalent than in the modelling industry. To create amazing images and campaigns that illicit thought, that inspire, and that capture the zeitgeist means models are subjected to all kinds of odd requests by photographers and...
20 Aug 2015
