Activists demand quota for black models

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Race activists in Brazil are slamming the designers who have left black models out of their shows.

18 June,2011 09:28 am

Black rights campaigners in Brazil criticise the Sao Paulo Fashion Week for casting a small number of dark-skinned models and demand 20 percent quotas for future shows.A dearth of black models strutting the catwalks is a persistent issue in the fashion world and while the numbers have improved, campaigners say there are still too few.While over 50 percent of Brazils population is black, only 28 of the 1,128 models booked for fashion week are of African descent, according to rights activists.At fashion shows, many labels share the same models, giving a few black models a disproportionate number of work, which activists say limits opportunities for black models.