British Vogue have made a great move for models by co-signing The Equity Ten Point Code of Conduct for the treatment of Models, to ensure that they receive fair treatment during photo shoots.
It means that any model hired by Vogue will now have a set number of hours that they will work, will get breaks, food, transport, changing rooms and be paid in an efficient manner, which surprisingly is not always the case.
Working model and current chair of Equity’s models committee Dunja Knezevic said: “Signing up to Equity’s Code shows Vogue UK’s dedication to improving the working conditions of models. We hope that other magazines and publishing houses, retailers and designers will also understand the importance of protecting models in the workplace, sign up to the Code and prevent treatment of the kind which would be wholly unacceptable in any other profession!”
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Posted by Amy Power.
