Vogue Vows Not to Work With Models Under 16: Right Move or Big Deal Over Nothing?

Young girls are being exploited now at very young ages in pageants. It's disheartening to see them dressed and acting like not normal children for their age, but a lot older. Pedophiles of course, love it. A child should be a child, and a young person, a young person, not some object to be promoted as sexy and knowing of life.

I think it is a positive thing to do to the modeling industry

Good that they're monitoring eating disorders

Just let children have their childhood.

About time!!! Peddling heroin chic pedophile bait as the norm for feminine beauty is not cool!

Of course it is the right move. Children posing as adults are why women in this country have such a bad body image. Because skinny adolescent girls are wearing high fashion clothing instead of real women. If that isn't warped, than what is??? No matter how thin or pretty someone is, there is a different look as women age. In Europe they are more comfortable with women looking like women. In the US for whatever reason, we tend to gravitate to younger and younger looking girls and then expect adult women to emulate that look. That is unattainable. Maturity has a whole different look and beauty of it's own and that is what the fashion magazines should be promoting. Teen models should pose for teen magazines only. Let women embrace themselves at ever stage in their lives. This is a first step....

Under 16 is too young to be sexualizing teens.

it's better to sexualize them when they're 16/17

it's not like they're doing porn..

actually, that stuff (especially swimsuit modeling) virtually is soft porn

most models start out around 14 or so. i htink its fine.
and she doesnt look 16..... >.>

SHE MUST GO BACK TO SCHOOL

I think not hiring any models with eating disorders is a good idea but I don't see why it matters how old the models are. Unless it's because not many 16 year olds read Vogue and they dont want their older readers thinking its a really thin older model. I dont know.

yes..cuz people need to stop & think about little girls age before hiring dem!!! the rite age will need to start at 21!!!

It's a good move, my guess is it's for the good publicity. Time will tell if they actually mean what they say or not.

I think they need to maintain a level of maturity.

They should use only gals over fifty to make it an even number between zero and a hundred, fifty is mid-way! Make it more exciting!

They should up it to 18 years of age. The models are still too thin. It is not healthy to look that thin they are eating under 800 calories if that a day, eating a peach is a big deal. I used to model when I was younger for major brands, I barely ate food and most of the models back then, Studio 54 era, did cocaine to stay thin, not cool. I followed my own beat was ahead of my time, but give much credit to my Dad, who was a marine sergeant need I say more. There is nothing glamorous about the business it’s not for everyone! I was very blessed to have a wonderful family who cared and I could tell them everything.

Sensible!

Yay magazines are adhering to child labor laws. Big whoop.

Maybe parents will finally stop complaining.

Since a lot of those magazines were making kids to almost obscene stuff, it might be the right move to make them wait.

people who are 16 and under should be at school getting an education not showing their ass on the red carpet

should be 18., many jobs children should not be forced to do.

I think it should be 18 years of age. They are out of High School, old enough to Vote and choose a career.

Modelling seems a very adult occupation and even some sixteen year old girls and boys are not going to be mature enough for this industry at this age.

But, who cares??

Now to not work with models who look like they have an eating disorder. -____-

It says right there that they also decided not to work with models who appear to have an eating disorder? Read the article.

I think she was speaking with sarcasm over the stupidity of the articles comment. It's pretty sad that they had to say something like that instead of just doing it as it should be.

The eattin disorder part is the right move

Hey, ever heard of this cool thing called TEEN Vogue?

Why? What's the reasoning?

It's about time. I've had a long suspicion that many of the fashions were designed specifically for the androgynous appearance that is very popular with some in the gay community. Let's face it, there is a significant presence of powerful gay men that are running some of the worlds biggest design lines. Having had to work with models in my younger years, all I can say is that it is a very short and often unfulfilling career for very little compensation in most aspects. We would have to use clips to hold back clothing because the models were so disproportionately tall for their width. Nothing fit right, not even shoes. Note that cheaper stores seldom show models' feet. And there are specialties of hand and foot modeling because fashion models hands and feet are not necessarily beautiful Lauren Bacall was a model. She would never have made the cut these days as she was considered too short. Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield would have only been considered as plus size models. And we have very young girls who are trying to adhere to impossible standards of what someone has designated as beautiful.

We will have ultra skinny, ultra young models as long as the designers and producers are homosexuals. They really want the image of 13 year-old boys (their most desirable sexual targets) and they find models that have that look.

If you watch, many shows run by women designers have more feminine models with more realistic shapes. Too bad there aren't more of them.

Design of all kinds is agenda driven. It's almost impossible for a conservative designer no matter how good to get a job. And frankly the old boy network is amped up majorly when the good old boys sleep with each other. When I worked for a gay owned companywhere all the managers were gay, they treated me like an alien during my pregnancy. It was appalling.

That gal looks anorexic, or bulemic, anything but sexy! She looks so unhealthy, like to the point she needs help now. Modeling agencies should never be allowed to promote this as being beautiful!

Absolutely the right move, now if the People making decisions in the "Rag Trade" would do the same it would be even better!

Under 16 is awfully young.

It's a good thing not to advertise minor models, they never look 16, usually they look like adults.