POV (PBS) Interview for the broadcast of Girl Model – March 2013
“THE FASHION INDUSTRY” for Les Francs-Tireurs – 2013
With Rachel Blais, Francesca Tedeschi & Meredith Wright
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ENTERTAINEMENT TONIGHT – 2012
TORONTO STAR – April 2012 “In the West, we say (child labour) is not right, yet we’re doing the same thing by putting these girls in the magazines,” says Blais.“It’s a part of modelling that’s not talked about at all,” says Blais. “The young girls, who are travelling the world to represent the image of the perfect woman when they’re still children.”
CNN – April 2012 “Using 15-year-old girls to represent the ideal woman makes me think that a woman of 25, 30, 40 years old looks at those billboards and at a magazine and is looking at girls … disguised as women promoting clothing for women,” she said. “You can’t ever go back to being 15.”
REEL SCREEN – April 2012 “Well, ever since the premiere at Toronto, work has gone down quite a bit actually. Maybe it’s pure coincidence, but when it goes on for quite a few months, it kind of feels like they’re trying to censor me in a certain way.”
FASHION MAGAZINE – April 2012 “How come we have these pictures of these underage girls in a magazine yet if you have a picture at home with the same pose you can be sued in a criminal way for child pornography? If you’re not in the fashion industry, it’s criminal. If you are in the fashion industry, that’s legal?”
GLOBAL TV MORNING SHOW – April 2012 Model Rachel Blais joins the show to talk about the documentary, Girl Model, a film that shows the dark side of the modeling world.
THE AUSTRALIAN (THE SUNDAY TIMES UK) – February 2012 “Rachel Blais, 26, a French-Canadian model who was first spotted at the age 14 and has worked in all the main fashion capitals, said she wanted to see a ban on under-18s modelling adult clothes.”Girls get scouted from the age of about 12, but on average it’s about 13 or 14 years old,” Blais said. “We are putting these girls in a sexual context.”
THE DAILY STAR – February 2012
“This doesn’t only happen to Russian girls,” says Blais. “It’s a horror story for Canadians, Americans, all kinds of girls. For models, there is no protection. In London, they’ve opened a union for models, like an artists’ unions. But it took a year for founders to convince people that models are artists. No one wants to represent them.”
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