São Paulo Fashion Week

The São Paulo Fashion Week is a clothing trade show held semi-annually in São Paulo, Brazil. It is notable as "Latin America's pre-eminent fashion event"[1] and it is of the emerging fashion weeks, outside the Big Four of New York, London, Paris, and Milan, that have been established since the 1990s.[2][3] It has been controversial in the past because of a "longstanding bias towards white models." In 2009 quotas were imposed that required that 10 percent of models to be "black or indigenous" as a way to foster equal opportunity.[1] In its 2019, the show featured a male transgender model, Sam Porto, for the first time in its history.[4]

São Paulo Fashion Week
Models walks the runway for Osklen, at São Paulo Fashion Week 2017
Location(s)São Paulo, Brazil
Inaugurated1995 (1995)
FounderPaulo Borges
Organised byGrupo Luminosidade
Websitespfw.com.br

In April 2019, male fashion model Tales Soares, artistically known as Tales Cotta, died after collapsing on the runway at the show. Soares was walking the runway when he suddenly stumbled and fell as he was about to exit. Soares received help after falling and was taken to a hospital where he later died.[5]

References
  1. "Brazil fashion week goes equal opportunity". The Daily Telegraph. June 20, 2009. Retrieved 2011-09-08. the São Paulo Fashion Week - Latin America's pre-eminent fashion event - has imposed quotas requiring at least 10 percent of the models to be black or indigenous. The measure was brought in after intense pressure from anti-racism groups and Brazilian prosecutors who blasted the SPFW's longstanding bias towards white models.
  2. "Fashion Capitals (2012 and Earlier)". 21 January 2020.
  3. Nunes, Joao Paulo Nunes (2012). "A City of Two Tales: São Paulo Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014". Huffingtonpost. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  4. "Conheça a história de Sam Porto, modelo trans que brilhou na SPFW". Revista Marie Claire (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  5. "Fashion model dies after collapsing on runway in Brazil". CNN. 29 April 2019.
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