kirstie clements
Australia’s Next Top Model 4 Round-Up – Update!
11:50AM Clem Bastow | The infamous Vogue Forums have been ablaze (320 pages and counting!) with rants about Demelza Reveley’s AusNTM win last night, with Voguettes threatening to cancel their Vogue subscriptions because of the 16-year-old’s bullying behaviour during this Cycle of the show.
As was mentioned previously, Vogue Editor In Chief Kirstie Clements did not vote for Demelza – and to calm the forums down (or likely inspire exactly the opposite), she has posted an official announcement on the topic:
Part of Reveley’s prize is a shoot in Vogue Australia’s September issue, with the magazine under a contractual agreement with Australia’s Next Top Model to feature the winner on eight pages, but don’t expect the amateur model to appear on the cover like last year’s winner Alice Burdeu. “Alice was such an exceptional case,” Clements says. “It was clear from the very beginning that she had the makings of an international model.”
BIZZAM! “Amateur model”! “Contractual agreement”! Drawing impossible comparisons with the Divine Miss Burdeu!
Demelza, you might have won on a technicality (that “general public” vote, pfft), but you just got served. More » 
There’ll Be No More ‘Too Young To Model’ Debates On Vogue Editor’s Watch
2:51PM Clem Bastow | Just this morning we were reading the latest “too young to model” fuss, which was, we have to admit, actually quite well-founded: Polish teenager Monika Jagaciak (aka “Jak”; pictured) was booked to walk and pose at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week, not to mention booked to shoot for Vogue Australia… until everyone found out she was 14.
Vogue editrix Kirstie Clements was particularly vocal on the topic and it now seems that when Vogue speaks, the rest of the industry listens:
Rosemount Australian Fashion Week organisers this morning responded to Vogue Australia editor Kirstie Clements’ call for a minimum age of 16 for models appearing in the event.
“In light of industry and community concern regarding the acceptable age for models to appear on the catwalk at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week (RAFW), today RAFW revised its industry policy,” an official statement said.
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