Australia’s main fashion industry body has supported restrictions on models younger than 16 working at big fashion shows.
Australian Fashion Council manager Zoe Edquist said that events such as Australian Fashion Week and the Melbourne Fashion Festival were an “adult environment” and younger teenage models should be chaperoned.
Ms Edquist was responding to a report released this week by the British fashion industry panel’s Model Health Inquiry, which recommended banning models aged less than 16 for London Fashion Week.
Ms Edquist, whose organisation represents more than 200 fashion businesses, including top designers, said a ban was too drastic, but it was “incredibly sensible” to introduce rules to protect young girls.
She said younger teenagers were ill-equipped to face issues like sexualisation, alcohol and rejection. Measures could include not booking them too late at night, having parents or adults present on jobs and monitoring alcohol consumption.
“I don’t think it’s particularly contentious to say that girls under 16 probably emotionally aren’t really ready to be working in that very adult fashion area,” Ms Edquist said.
“I can speak from personal experience because I was a model when I was 16 and my experience was not particularly good ... I didn’t really know how to handle myself very well in that sort of environment.”
The British report called for a scientific study into the prevalence of eating disorders among fashion models and an investigation into whether a minimum bodymass index requirement of 18.5 should be introduced for London Fashion Week models.
The latter measure has been adopted by Madrid Fashion Week.
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