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September 11, 2019
Isabel Cristo
Fashion Week’s Labor Problem Is Our Labor Problem
The modeling industry has long exploited and abused vulnerable young women. Will they be welcomed in a revived worker movement?
August 30, 2016
Jeet Heer
Trump’s modeling agency was a virtual sweatshop that hired undocumented immigrants.
June 21, 2016
Will Leitch
The Neon Demon: Shiny, Unhappy People
Beauty isn’t everything in Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest glossy feature. In fact, it’s hardly anything.
March 5, 2015
Jennifer Sky
Models of the World, Unite!
The fashion industry pays them in dresses. It's time they unionize.

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