'Everyone passes the buck': despite #MeToo, fashion has a way to go
Industry insiders say progress has been made but problem of sexual abuse has not gone away
by Scarlett Conlon
Oct 15, 2019
3 minutes
Some of the fashion industry’s most feted photographers, including Mario Testino, Bruce Weber and Patrick Demarchelier, have lost huge contracts as a result of #MeToo – despite their denials of sexual exploitation allegations.
Yet two years after the movement began, sources have told the Guardian that while significant progress has been made, there are still “repeat culprits” at work.
The #MeToo movement prompted hundreds of accusations of harassment and assault against well-known industry figures, casting a shadow over a world where
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