The Models Charter (James Scully and Antoine Arnault) | BoF VOICES

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🗓️ 25 December 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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One year after James Scully issued a plea to end the ‘cruel and sadistic’ abuse of fashion models, LVMH’s Antoine Arnault joined the casting director to discuss the enforcement of a landmark charter to protect models. #BoFVOICES 2017

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and welcome to the
0:07.0	B-OF podcast. Voices is the most stimulating gathering of fashion industry leaders on the planet.
0:13.0	What makes voices different is that we mix our industry with fascinating people from other sectors,
0:19.0	from the worlds of economics, activism, health and wellness,
0:22.5	medicine, film, philanthropy, technology, media, and so many more.
0:27.7	Fashion doesn't live in a bubble, nor should it.
0:30.4	This is one of the sessions from our 2017 gathering.
0:33.9	One of the most important moments that happened at Voices in 2016 was when a casting director named James Scully took to the Voices stage to address the issues of systematic bullying and abuse of fashion models in the industry.
0:48.9	Following that moment, true to his word, James called out brands on Instagram, in particular, Balenciaga, after a troubling incident at a casting that happened in the spring of 2017.
1:01.5	James took on this issue. His voice's talk went viral, and two of the industry's giants came on to sign a charter that he spearheaded to safeguard and protect
1:13.5	models from this kind of abuse. So it was really important for us to revisit this conversation
1:19.0	at Voices 2017 to understand the impact of James's talk, to explore in further depth the model's charter, and to understand where
1:29.9	we need to go in the future when it comes to this issue, because the charter was really only
1:34.6	the first step. I also encourage you to watch a video that recaps all of what happened in the
1:40.6	year since James first spoke at Voices. You can find that on our YouTube channel.
1:45.0	But in the meantime, here is James Scully and Antoine Arnault speaking to me at Voices 2017 about
1:52.1	the models charter. Just a quick note, this conversation was recorded live in front of an audience,
1:58.8	so please excuse any audio issues.
2:02.0	One of the results of the conversation that we had here last year was a models charter that
2:07.3	was a collaboration spearheaded by James and signed by both Caring and LVMH.
2:14.3	And we just thought it was worth going into a little bit more depth on it to understand
2:18.4	a little bit about how it happened and you know Antoine in the video one of the things that we
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