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#Brexit realities. Fashion industry fears London will lose allure after Brexit transition. My latest via @FT ...it’s a story of a new world or marginal hassles, that will make a big difference at the margin/1 https://on.ft.com/3ryGi0f 

So this is the issue. After Jan 1 models will need Tier5 sponsorship to come to UK and UK models in EU will need to follow national rules of 27 different EU member states. That doesn't make it impossible - but it's a hassle /2

So here for example are the rules for Italy....(h/t @SamuelMarcLowe ) give them a read and you can see how much has changed.../3

https://www.mazzeschi.it/visa-for-fashion-models/

Because models aren't covered in the list of occupations that can avail themselves of the 90-day visa-free entry to the EU - see below...folk doing repairs etc. But not really workers. They need to follow national rules. /4

Now. I guess they could busk it/take a chance, but companies will have legal liabilities, so if you are organising a shoot etc then you'll not want to be taking chances. So in reality, these rules will bite. /5

So as the bosses of @models_1 and @StormModels tell me, that risks totally changing a business that relies on bringing togher a stylist, a photographer, a model etc at short notice...combining these mobile talents to make a shoot /6

It is NOT that it becomes impossible to do this - the Home Office says it is trying to smooth visas - but at the margin it is a significant hassle.

So if you're in Milan, since it'll be easier to get folk in from Paris or Stockholm or Barca...so you will. And London suffers/7

And this is where costs of #Brexit get very hard to predict - the extent to which that hassle-factor plays into human decisions. Well, we're about to find out. ENDS