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This is partly the result of an internal reckoning. Vogue, along with a number of other publications, has played a role in making it routine for children—since that’s what they are—to be dressed and marketed as glamorous adults. When Brooke Shields, then fourteen, graced the February 1980 cover of Vogue, she was an outlier. Since then, models in their mid-teens have appeared in many of our fashion editorials. No more: It’s not right for us, it’s not right for our readers, and it’s not right for the young models competing to appear in these pages. While we can’t rewrite the past, we can commit to a better future.
Will the rest of the fashion industry follow suit? The Council of Fashion Designers of America is on board: As its president and CEO, Steven Kolb, explains, the CFDA has witnessed positive changes since establishing a sixteen-plus standard on the runway eleven years ago. “The brave men and women who have come forward to talk about a culture of sexual harassment in certain parts of the fashion industry have made us reevaluate,” he says. “Young models are still developing. There can be a lack of the confidence, strength, experience, and maturity it takes to deal with the pressures of this work. The CFDA supports the recommendation of raising the minimum age—we want young models to have the time to come into their own so they feel safe and in charge in the workplace.”
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