As BBC News noted, several models of African descent were unhappy not only with Fashion Week but also at the modeling industry as a whole:
And outside the landmark Bienal building - where Sao Paulo Fashion Week is being staged - young black models voiced their frustration.
"I think the business is smaller for black girls," says 19-year-old Rafaela Favero. "But I don't know if it is because we are just black - but we are different, our pattern of beauty is different - our hair and our bodies."
"In a fashion show it is practically impossible," says 24-year-old Rafael Milagres.
Last year, we noted how Bolivian models tend to equate “beauty” with looking light-skinned rather than indigenous.
Sources (English)- AFP, BBC News
Sources (Spanish)- La Tercera
Image- BBC News
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