Yahoo Lifestyle Dale Noelle and Fashionnovation Spearhead Industry-wide Collaboration for the Fashion Workers Act
With the upcoming Fashion Workers Act taking effect in June, key industry leaders are convening to unite fashion at large to enact change.
Dale Noelle, founder and chief executive officer of True Model Management, is partnering up with Fashionnovation to ensure the newly minted law follows through to protect models, support ethical agencies and provide oversight — all in an effort to make a more the sector more sustainable and transparent. The law has been lobbied by politicians and high-profile models alike to get the law signed into government.
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The series of talks will be a collaborative space where major stakeholders of models, agencies, brands, labor rights experts and ethicists will lead the charge to refine how the act will take shape and be enforced. Despite the differing opinions of the act, Noelle and Fashinnovation have been emphasizing unity in moving forward for progress to occur.
“For real progress to happen, we need to engage all voices — models, agencies, brands and policymakers — to create industry standards that work for everyone,” Noelle said. “This isn’t about division; it’s about finding solutions together. Through our partnership with Fashinnovation, we’re bringing these critical conversations to the forefront.”
Noelle continued that as an industry, fashion works on collaborations between designers, models, managers and agents, brands and creatives working together — she said that the discussions on the Fashion Workers Act need to have the same mentality to move forward as one industry in a way that will benefit everyone.
Fashinnovation continues with its mission to bring fashion leaders together and is now taking a proactive role in helping to facilitate and host industry-wide discussions around the Fashion Workers Act. The partnership will serve as a hub for industry-wide collaboration and policy refining through a series of roundtables, panel discussions and live forums.
“Fashinnovation has always been a space where fashion leaders come together to create real impact,” says Marcelo Guimarães, founder of Fashinnovation. “By spearheading these discussions with Dale Noelle and other industry change-makers, we’re ensuring that the Fashion Workers Act is not just a law on paper, but a movement that drives lasting change in the industry.”
The launch of the initiative will take place on Feb. 21 after New York Fashion Week with an exclusive celebration hosted by Dale Noelle and True Model Management.
“The Fashion Workers Act is not the final step — it’s the beginning of something bigger. If we unite now, we can create a future where models are protected, agencies are supported and brands are accountable in ways that benefit everyone,” Noelle concluded.
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