Marc Jacobs decided to go against the CFDA(Council of Fashion Designers of America) model guidelines by allowing two girls under the age of 16 to walk in his show during New York Fashion Week. But because the guidelines are “suggestions” and not rules, Jacobs decided to ignore them and run his show the way he wants.
He told the New York Times:
“I do the show the way I think it should be and not the way somebody tells me it should be. If their parents are willing to let them do a show, I don’t see any reason that it should be me who tells them that they can’t…There are children actors and children models for catalogs and stuff, so I guess if a parent thinks it’s O.K. and a kid wants to do it, it’s fine.”
Two of his models, Thairine Garcia and Ondria Hardin (pictured above), were just 14 years old.
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