Mechetner’s agent said a chaperone was with her 24 hours a day, sleeping in the same room as her and going with her to auditions and shows. “(Before she started with Dior) She was cleaning houses with her mother, so if she is not too young to clean houses, I don’t think she is too young to walk on a show,” says her agent Rotem Gur. The new face of Dior grew up in a run-down neighbourhood with her single mother who juggled part-time jobs to make ends meet. So the fact that I am 14 years old is not really an issue,” she says. Everything I ask for is being taken care of. “I feel ready… and I am not alone, I am being looked after closely. The Israeli model’s young age has reignited the debate over underage modelling in this cut-throat industry. Pre-makeup and hair, 14-year-old Sofia Mechetner looks her age as she prepares to hit the catwalk to show off Dior’s 2016 spring-summer collection in Paris.
