We commented here that a professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, said that in recent times there has been a social acceptance of role of women who are really girls. This acceptance comes mainly from girls / women who have gained fame, and which others admire; The vision of the phenomenon can be and remain distorted if we do not reflect on child development and the possible consequences of interrupting it, allowing children to behave as if they were older.
I remembered this that I tell you above when I found in Trendencias Moda this news about the 14-year-old model Roos Abels who has paraded at the Milan Fashion Week for Prada. The limits seem to be fuzzy because as happened with Thairine Garcia and Ondria Hardin who debuted for Marc Jacobs with 14 and 15 years; A part of the Fashion industry does not seem to care that there are girls parading with adult clothes, and giving an image of what they are not.
Nor does it exist, and if there are, there are very specific initiatives such as that of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which since 2011 expressly prohibits the appearance of models under 16 on the catwalks.
There is also the issue of the minimum age established to participate in public shows (and a fashion show is), in Spain they are 16 years old, although the participation of younger children can be authorized if it is not a danger to your physical health or your professional and human training.
AdvertisingIf there is an agency that processes the possible authorization, it is because the parents have requested it (even at the request of the designer). That's why beyond the ambition of those who work in fashion, the parents are ultimately responsible for the child, and without which your permission would not be possible for someone of that age to perform these activities. But it is that if there is consumption of fashion shows with models that I am still girls, it is because there is demand, or because it is intended to be created, which finally can all have some responsibility, from the public, to makeup artists or hairdressers.
With 16 years they seem small, so imagine with 14, and not only because of the consequences that this may have on its development, it is also because there are many interests at stake, and finally it could be that even wanting to have everything under control, neither the parents nor themselves had a margin of decision in certain aspects.
Neither Abel, Garcia nor Hardin, are the only ones parading with less than 16 years, but it may be that if agreements are not reached on the minimum age, the trend will consolidate. I do not shout in the sky for young children who promptly participate in public shows, but being part of the fashion industry can mean from losing friends of the Institute, to not residing in your home more than one or two months a year, passing for having to "get away" from grandparents or cousins (with a little luck their parents will accompany them). I don't think that's the best for a teenager for a lot of money and fame that I have, and yes, we can comfort ourselves thinking “total in 4 years it will be 18”, but at what price?
Finally, of course, another of the problems that I see in this “fashion” of super young models is that let's distort the perception of a “normal” body (if this adjective can be applied here) of women, and not because models tend to be (very) thin, but also because an adult will never have a teenage body, because it is not.
What is definitely being questioned is not that they are models (there are models of children's clothing, right?) But that they are for older clothing firms, since the requirements will be greater in this case.
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