Model Edie Campbell has written an explosive open letter in which she hits out at modelling agents and other key players in the fashion industry, urging more of them to take action over sexual predators.

Campbell says she and her fellow models work within a culture that is “too accepting of abuse” and tells those who turn a blind eye to it: “Your inaction is complicity”.

“It comes down to responsibility, and this falls to agents to do their job,” Campbell writes in the missive, published by WWD. “Some of them are, but many aren’t. They are responsible for the physical and mental wellbeing of the models they represent. Don’t sell your model out to protect your relationship with a photographer or stylist. When a model comes to you, listen.

“If all agencies, casting directors, stylists took the same hardline approach against those that you know to be abusers, we might be closer to finding a solution,” she adds. “And to all the others: Don’t stay silent. Your inaction is complicity.

“As one, now-retired, male model I spoke to put it: ‘The real story is the enablers: The people who work with them [the abusers] and don’t do anything. They knowingly put young men and women in dangerous situations.’”

Edie Campbell takes aim at silent ‘enablers’ of abuse in fashion industry