'Fashion overwhelmingly favors malleable, adolescent girls - not women with the life experience and strength to demand fair treatment' 'All of the things depicted in the film - contracts that aren't honored, agency debt, and the pressure to drop out of school - are things that do happen to models, including very young models, in the industry today,' she continued. The documentary premiere at SXSW last week follows recent controversy surrounding Marc Jacobs's most recent show, which saw him use 14-year-old models on the catwalk. His decision defied industry guidelines from the CFDA which forbid the use of models under the age of 16.
