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The CFDA has issued  new guidelines concerning the well-being and treatment of models during fashion week

• Educate the industry to identify the early warning signs in an individual at risk of developing an eating disorder.
• Encourage models who may have an eating disorder to seek professional help in order to continue modelling. And models who are receiving professional help for an eating disorder should not continue modelling without that professional's approval.
• Develop workshops for the industry (including models and their families), on the nature of eating disorders, how they arise, how we identify and treat them, and complications if they are untreated.
• Support the well-being of younger individuals by not hiring models under the age of sixteen for runway shows; not allowing models under the age of eighteen to work past midnight at fittings or shoots; and providing regular breaks and rest.
• Supply healthy meals, snacks, and water backstage and at shoots and provide nutrition and fitness education.
• Promote a healthy backstage environment by raising the awareness of the impact of smoking and tobacco-related disease among women, ensuring a smoke-free environment, and address underage drinking by prohibiting alcohol.

Diane Von Furstenburg defends the changes by commenting, "Our choices can have positive consequences on the lives of women. A healthy mind in a healthy body is a healthy life! Choose health and diversity."