The label, the hottest on the Paris catwalk, said it had sent a written apology to the 150 women who were forced to wait in a cramped stairwell for three hours at the casting for its upcoming show on Sunday.
Some were shut inside in the dark while the casting directors went off for lunch, according to James Scully, a US casting director who took to Instagram to brand their treatment as "sadistic and cruel".
He claimed the directors involved were "serial abusers".
"In their usual fashion they shut the door, went to lunch and turned off the lights to the stairs leaving every girl with only the lights of their phones to see," he added.
"Not only was this sadistic and cruel it was dangerous and left more than a few of the girls I spoke with traumatised."
Scully also accused a major Paris fashion house, which he did not name, of trying to "sneak in" 15-year-old models for its show. "It's inconceivable to me that people have no regard for human decency or the lives and feelings of these girls, especially when too, too many of these models are under the age of 18 and clearly not equipped to be here."
Scully,
whose post garnered support from supermodels Joan Smalls, Helena Christensen
and Carolyn Murphy, also accused the French label Lanvin of discrimination
against black models.
The
brand's designer Bouchra Jarrar hit back strongly after showing her
autumn-winter collection Wednesday. "They
insult the couture houses with their accusations of racism," she told AFP.
"What are they talking about?" said the French designer."Our
dressing room is full of girls from every origin. In fact, there is not a
single French person in it."
Two black
models walked in her show, the same number as in her debut collection last year
for the label, which is owned by Taiwanese businesswoman Shaw-Lan Wang.
"I want
to talk about my creativity, I am not going to justify that I like to use all
types of girls (in my shows," Jarrar added.
Photo credit: AFP
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