HAVE A HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY FROM "A.K.A. Models"! Thank you for being an important part of this page and for all of the referrals that have been sent here. THAT is a compliment to know that people want to help support our youth and learn more about making modeling a "smoother-run, ethical, and safer place" within the fashion and advertising industries. (*an example below ;) )
BALANCING the pros and cons, plus incorporating strategies to keep the industry better represented as a professional organization will have a natural progression. It can cover many of the negative "gray" areas where there is no one accountable for protecting the model's rights as a child laborer, or adult laborer.
We need to make adjustments within the industry to accommodate the NEW standards of a career in modeling. Things have been done a certain way for many decades, but it's not working in everyones mutual favor. It is selfish for any professional to forget that "models" are workers and deserve occupational rules and laws of protection. (Example of a positive change: There is NO place for press and photographers to be backstage when models are getting changed for runway shows...that is just not professional, nor welcome...and if it is allowwed, it needs to change. It's not a peep show. In Mrs. Blackwell's world (a.k.a. "me") , I would go so far to say to place (heavy) fines on the people or press that violate any space of minors where they may be undressed backstage).
BALANCING the pros and cons, plus incorporating strategies to keep the industry better represented as a professional organization will have a natural progression. It can cover many of the negative "gray" areas where there is no one accountable for protecting the model's rights as a child laborer, or adult laborer.
We need to make adjustments within the industry to accommodate the NEW standards of a career in modeling. Things have been done a certain way for many decades, but it's not working in everyones mutual favor. It is selfish for any professional to forget that "models" are workers and deserve occupational rules and laws of protection. (Example of a positive change: There is NO place for press and photographers to be backstage when models are getting changed for runway shows...that is just not professional, nor welcome...and if it is allowwed, it needs to change. It's not a peep show. In Mrs. Blackwell's world (a.k.a. "me") , I would go so far to say to place (heavy) fines on the people or press that violate any space of minors where they may be undressed backstage).
