Fashion: Transgender models in Brazil - video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/video/2012/sep/13/brazil-transgender-models 新的巴西變性名模 Racial tension, fuller figures and transgender models underscore a booming fashion industry in Brazil Share 206 inShare.0Email Link to this video With London's summer of sport over, the focus moves to Brazil. The country is hosting the World Cup in 2014, and the Olympics come 2016, and fashion, never to be outdone, is ready to make its own handover. On course to become the fifth largest economy by 2025, Brazil has the resources to become the next fashion capital, and the international industry is beginning to take notice. Lucas Nascimento, Pedro Lourenço and jeweller Fernando Jorge are Brazilian buzz names, and London's The Shop at Bluebird hosts pop-up Brazil Rising from this Friday to showcase new talent. Fashion weeks in São Paolo and Rio – previously dismissed as swimwear showcases – are firmly on the schedule of international buyers and press. Carol, a transgender model who w...