Earlier this month we reported that Brazil's San Paulo Fashion Week was being forced to have 10% of black or ingenious models because of intense pressure from anti-racism groups protesting about the lack of diversity and their long standing and open bias towards white models.
The show started on the 17th of June and will last until the 22nd. Here are a few comments from the ever growing controversy:
"There shouldn't only be whites in the Fashion Week. There should be more blacks, to show black culture, show the black beauty in society," Caroline Naiara, 16, told AFP.
"We think 10 percent is very little. And there shouldn't have to be quotas for black models. We want more to see black producers, black stylists, people who work in fashion generally, to be more a part of the market," says Andre de Souza.
According to APF: "A few employees, though, said quietly -- and well away from reporters' microphones -- that the measure did not take into account that the European-inspired fashions were created for thin white bodies, not more rounded and chesty black physiques."
Source: APF
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