In March, the media agenda of Paris fashion week was dominated not by Chanel, Louis Vuitton or Christian Dior but by James Scully, a well-known casting director who turned whistleblower to report on mistreatment of models at a Balenciaga casting. Scully’s claim that 150 models were made to wait in a pitch-dark staircase for three hours, with no food or water and only the light of their phones to see by were shocking. Within days, Balenciaga announced “radical changes” to their casting process and severed ties with the accused agency.
