Balenciaga Fires Model Casting Agency After Mistreatment Claims

Balenciaga and Lanvin reacted swiftly today to claims by U.S. casting director James Scully that models were being abused during castings for Paris Fashion Week. Scully made the allegations in an Instagram post, which set off a firestorm on Monday that had everyone from LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s Antoine Arnault to model Joan Smalls chiming in. “I was very disturbed to hear from a number of girls this morning that yesterday at the Balenciaga casting Madia & Ramy (serial abusers) held a casting in which they made over 150 girls wait in a stairwell, told them they would have to stay over 3 hours to be seen and not to leave,” said Scully in the lengthy social media posting. “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. Not only was this sadistic and cruel it was dangerous and left more than a few of the girls I spoke with traumatized. Most of the girls have asked to have their options for Balenciaga cancelled as well as Hermès and Elie Saab who they also cast for because they refuse to

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