Down with the dictates of the podium! Glamourous and confident, a dozen small American and French models, marched on Friday amid the cheers of the audience at the prestigious fashion week in Paris.
There was only one criterion for casting these atypical top models, wearing tailored outfits created by the Agency New York Creative Business House: do not exceed 1.30 meters. A far cry from the slender models who usually walk the catwalk.
The French Association said “Let’s give them a chance,” and the populace coined it as the “parade of small people” or “parade ppt.” The event is called “The Dwarf Fashion Show” on the other side of the Atlantic.
The event is now in its third edition, after a first in September 2014 in Paris, followed by another in New York this winter. The next march is planned for 2016 in Tokyo.
In the Ministry of Culture, Christine, Ophelia, Emma, Helen, Melissa and Ismahn, dressed and made-up by professionals, marched confidently and happily, posing while facing photographers and cameras.
The Londoner Lucy, 16, closed the parade wearing a wedding dress, no less.
“It is to change the way people look at us, and because I love fashion I wanted to parade,” says Emma (AFP). “And this might give the idea for designers to make clothes for us.”
For the organizers of this event, they did it to counter the “discriminatory dictates of beauty.”
It’s also the opportunity to promote equal opportunities in the highly stereotyped modeling industry, and meet the expectations of “ppt” fashionistas in clothes.
Fashion gradually blurs the difference.
Thus the New York Fashion Week in September hosted a young Australian with Down syndrome, Madeline, and an American, Rebekah Marine, born without a right forearm. It is good that the fashion industry also promotes diversity.
Madeline is already committed to Fashion Week in Tokyo, Milan and New York, all in 2016.
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