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Date : 11/06/2010
Lack of African and indigenous models at São Paulo Fashion Week
São Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil has been legally ordered to ensure at least 10 per cent of its models strutting the catwalk are of African or indigenous descent. More than half of Brazil’s models are found among the farms of Rio Grande do Sul, a state that represents only 5% of the population, colonised by Germans and Italians, reported AlexeI Barrionuevo at the Scotsman.
"I was always perplexed that Brazil was never able to export a Naomi Campbell, and it is definitely not because of a lack of pretty women," said Erika Palomino, a fashion consultant in São Paulo. "It is embarrassing."
The Brazilian fashion week starts 13th June.
