Editorial focus
Start here if you're tracking labor abuse and worker safety in fashion.
Forest follows abuse, labor conditions, and accountability fights across fashion, with this Victoria's Secret brief as the starting point.
Forest
Reporting, context, and accountability for fashion work.
Forest is a focused advocacy resource covering labor conditions, model safety, and accountability in fashion, beginning with an original brief on Model Alliance's public call for enforceable protections at Victoria's Secret.
Featured page
Open Letter to Victoria's Secret
This page presents an original summary of Model Alliance's public appeal for concrete protections after reports of harassment, retaliation, and workplace abuse connected to Victoria's Secret.
Focus Accountability and workplace safety
Program named RESPECT Program
Primary audience Victoria's Secret leadership and the wider fashion industry
Core issue How to turn allegations into enforceable protections
Main routes
Inner page Open Letter to Victoria's Secret Official source Read the RESPECT Program overviewCampaign focus
A campaign brief on accountability, worker safety, and enforceable standards in fashion.
- Join the RESPECT Program and make the commitment binding rather than voluntary.
- Apply a code of conduct across employees, agencies, vendors, photographers, and contractors.
- Provide an independent and confidential way for models and workers to report harm.
- Back complaints with timely resolution, training, and meaningful consequences for abusers.
Coverage approach
The issue is bigger than a single scandal cycle.
This brief is designed for readers who want more than outrage. It organizes the key harms identified in reporting, the accountability measures being demanded, and the structural reasons fashion workers often struggle to report abuse safely.
Who it matters to
- Models and performers who need safer reporting structures.
- Agencies, brands, and production teams evaluating what meaningful accountability requires.
- Journalists, advocates, and readers tracking labor conditions and abuse prevention in fashion.
Inside the brief
Body shaming and sexualized misconduct
The source material describes a working culture in which degrading comments about appearance and sexually inappropriate behavior were treated as routine rather than exceptional.
Retaliation after people pushed back
One of the sharpest concerns in the letter is not only the misconduct itself, but the cost imposed on people who resisted it, documented it, or tried to raise complaints.
Image use and pressure outside clear boundaries
The campaign also points to alleged misuse of model images and pressure to participate in shoots or nudity beyond fair, transparent, compensated working conditions.