What's age got to do with it?

Its Australian Fashion Week and a new rule will make the minimum age for models to strut the catwalk 16 years old.

This comes off the heels of an uproar over Polish model Monika Jagaciak, age 14, who has been in former campaigns for Hermes. In those campaigns, she was photographed in a white swimsuit being sprayed with shower jets.

She should've been in Sydney for fashion week, but the organizers, under much scrutiny have caved and decided that age 16 is the minimum age to walk the runway.

Here's what the fashion organizers had to say:

“Policies are constantly revisited and endorsed by the AFW's industry advisory board to ensure the event best served the industry and reflected community attitudes towards issues surrounding the fashion industry,” he said.

In America, we do have child labor laws, and aside from what's appropriate and what's not appropriate for a 14-year-old to be wearing or doing, the Australian people seem to migrate toward the fact that Jagaciak is a child, and therefore shouldn't be working the runway.

This definitely lends the questions: How young is too young to model? Is a 14-year-old girl more impressionable when it comes to negative body image as opposed to a 23-year-old woman?