15 year old Claire Quirk banned from Fashion Week
- Filed under: Entertainment, Famous, Fashion, Supermodels
- Date: Jul 16,2007
At least now we started to see some changes in the fashion industry. The Law rules not allowing models under 16 on the catwalk and it happened in Melbourne.
City Council has dumped the face of its coming Melbourne Spring Fashion Week because of her age.
Fifteen-year-old Claire Quirk was to be crowned “the face” of the fashion week, and appear on catwalks at many of the festival’s 142 events.
The council’s move follows the British fashion industry panel’s Model Health Inquiry, which last week recommended banning models aged under 16 from London Fashion Week.
She has to sleep more and wait till she gets 16.
The British report called for a scientific study into the prevalence of eating disorders among fashion models, and an investigation into whether a minimum body-mass index requirement should be introduced for London Fashion Week models, a measure already adopted by Madrid fashion week.
Photo from The AGE.AU
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I dont see the issue. She was not doing anything inapropriate and she has her parents and agents there so nothing should be able to go wrong.
If modelling is what she wants to do then let her. Our leaders need to stop trying to rule everyones lives and let the new generation of young people make there own decisions and mistakes.
This girl had been given a great chance in her industry and now because of one over the top mother (not even hers) she has had it taken away from her. I think this will not stop her but encourage her to try even harder and i hope that she does and i hope for her sake that she makes it to where she wants to go.
Its hypocrisy. If she was 4 years old there would be no problem.
The industry has always used child models. So these young ladies are on the brink of full womanhood. If they are properly chaperoned and have limited working hours, (and do their homework) what’s the issue?