A young looking model raised more than a few eyebrows when she walked the Valentino runway at Paris Fashion Week yesterday with her nipples exposed. A young model hits the runway at the Valentino show during Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday.Photo: WireImage The model, who appeared particularly young, took to the catwalk in an extremely sheer dress embellished with sequins, leaving her right breast almost completely uncovered. In France, the Chambre Syndicale, organizers of Paris Fashion Week, have enforced a lower age limit of 16 when it comes to catwalk work. However, the issue of girls modelling at such a young age is quarrelsome – and not every country has the same rules. In the US, the state of New York passed a law that classified models under the age of 18 as child performers in an effort to try and curb 14-year-olds being used on the runway. Po: Getty ImagesIt has been claimed in the past that designers favor younger girls as “young, flat-chested” models look better in their designs. Speaking to the Evening Standard ahead of London Fashion Week, Carole White co-founder of London’s Premier Model Management said: “The designers want straight up and down – no boobs.” Carole previously said that the agency often scouted in schools because the “very skinny” girls the fashion houses wanted were normally “really young”. Style consultant Nick Ede has previously said that nudity is something models should expect, adding: “A model showing off their nipples is something that has never been frowned at in the fashion world. “It’s just something that happens and is not seen in any other way than a piece of flesh being exposed. “A model is always asked if they are comfortable in their clothes and nowadays with selfies, it’s just not something that people have issues with. I don’t think there should be any ruling on the exposure of a nipple.”
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