Clothing Line Made by Prostitutes Gains PopularityClothing Line Made by Prostitutes Gains Popularity
RIO DE JANEIRO - With her braided hair coming out from the side of her head and her long legs revealing years of wear and tear, Jane Eloy made her way down the runway at a Copacabana Beach hotel last week with an enormous grin.
The Mercury News recently reported that after years of working as a prostitute on this city’s meanest streets, Eloy, 31, was showing off brightly colored skirts, G-strings and other clothes that she and about a dozen of her colleagues had designed for the fashion line Daspu.
But she was doing more than that.
“We’re changing people’s minds about us,” she told the Mercury News. “We’re winning respect for what we do.”
Daspu is a fashion house founded and run by prostitutes whose designs have become the talk of Brazil’s fashion industry nine months after its start.
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