I Was a Fashion Outsider. Then I Saw What the Industry Was Hiding

Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Politics as theatre. Celebrity as currency. Wellness as religion. And power as the only real language in the room. Subscribe to PRIMAL SCREAM with Joanna Coles on Substack for exclusive news, reviews and commentary. This week, my inbox was brimming with fashion questions—but they weren’t about what to wear. After my interview on the Daily Beast Podcast with Carré Otis and Stacey Williams —two women who spoke with bracing clarity about abuse in the modeling industry and their efforts to clean it up for future generations—I received hundreds of messages. Some demanding, some grateful, many asking the same question: When you were at the helm of global fashion magazines, what did you see? Did you know how bad the modeling industry could be? Read more at The Daily Beast.

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