Reuters had a disturbing story about what happens backstage during fashion week. If the food is there, it mostly goes untouched.
From lots of cigarettes, booze and underage drinking:
But at fashion shows this week, there was a steady supply of free alcohol and cigarette smoke was in the air.
"I can be naturally thin," said Russian beauty Sasha Pivovarova, 22, lighting a cigarette as she prepared for a show. Her advice for young girls is simple: "Don't try to look like me."
Backstage at 9 a.m. one day, the breakfast buffet included champagne, miniature pastries, coffee and caffeinated energy drinks.
"Champagne has always been served. We take one sip. None of the girls get drunk," said Polish model Magdalena Frackowiak, who at 19 is below New York's 21-year-old legal drinking age.
To rampant bulimia:
"We can smell it. They're doing a lot of vomiting," said a janitor who identified himself as Dennis White, by the toilets backstage where models prepared for one early morning show. "They look too skinny, like they've got to eat."
Fashion Week organizers, of course, are denying that any of these things are happening. -- Dennis White, who's he!?!?! Perhaps the CFDA needs to rethink its voluntary guidelines. Or at the very minimum, someone needs to step in and make the Fashion Week organizers comply with laws covering drinking and smoking. Is this so difficult?
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