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

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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?

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