Sara Ziff Has Spent the Last Decade Changing the Fashion Industry — and She's Just Getting Started

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The founder of the Model Alliance was awarded France's Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite, or Knight in the National Order of Merit, for her work with the non-profit organization she started a decade ago.

"Part of the challenge has been helping people understand that we're not talking about people who won't roll out of bed for less than $10,000 a day — we're talking about, in many cases, children who are working in debt to their agencies, and also an aspirational workforce where there are a lot of people who are being put in very compromising positions simply to try to be a part of this industry," she continues.

"It feels like you're putting a bandaid on an open wound," she says. "It's just very clear that we need to have the infrastructure to deal with these abuses, not just to address them, but to prevent them. And companies have a very important role to play."Ziff doesn't believe it's a coincidence that high-profile abusers, like Jeffery Epstein and Harvey Weinstein, were able to prey on models.

Leading companies could join the Model Alliance's Respect program, which would create legally-binding and enforceable standards for the industry when it comes to the treatment of models. "We have seen time after time companies roll out these nice-sounding pledges that are frankly meaningless because they're totally unenforceable," she says.

 

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