Last month, a Peruvian model/attention seeker faced massive public scrutiny over posing naked on top of the Peruvian flag for a magazine cover. The exaggerated outrage led to a tearful apology from Leysi Suarez who was threatened with jail time for her racy yet patriotic snapshots. The shit may hit the fan again (if you’ll pardon my language) after Peruvian model Karla Casós wore her country’s flag as a dress during a fashion show in Santiago, Chile. Chilean fashion designer Ricardo Oyaizu claimed to have made the dress in order to “find unity between our countries”. Casós, meanwhile, tried to defend herself via the not-so-subtle art of passive/aggressiveness:
“I don’t want to criticize Leysi’s choice but it’s something I would not have done. I have nothing against her but what I did was absolutely different. I was in a high fashion show and I didn’t sit on a flag draped on top of a horse.” [Ed. personal translation]
Anyone care to bet that by year’s end Suarez and Casós will be sharing a cell in a Limeño prison?
Image- Living in Peru
Sources (English)- Living in Peru, BBC News, The Press Association
Sources (Spanish)- Agencia Orbita de Peru, RPP Noticias
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