Fashion trade secrets

Images of girls as young as 12 are sent to agencies One, Models 1, puts all Size 12s into its ‘curve division’. It also hands a diet book to girls deemed to be overweight Girls are told to avoid certain contraceptive pills for fear of gaining weight

Models who cannot fit into sample sizes are made to walk down the catwalk in their underwear to shame them. Others simply have clothes left unzipped at the back Experts say a lack of mums in senior jobs in the industry is partly to blame