Fashion show for dwarfs held in Paris and New York

The culture ministry of France has held an entire dwarf fashion show as a part of the normal Paris Fashion Week calendar. This is because the government is supporting an initiative to promote alternative standards of beauty in an industry that promotes being tall and thin.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 3 October 2015.

There were a total of fifteen women dwarves all measuring under 4 feet 4 inches (1.22 meters, 10.16 centimeters) – they trod the boards proudly in the latest colorful spring-summer fashions that was designed by a team of designers especially for the show.
Incidentally, on February 2015, a similar dwarf fashion show was held as part of the New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center.
As indicated by organizers of the show, fashion services provider Creative Business House (CBH), this show is the first in the nation of its kind. There are approximately 30,000 people living with dwarfism in the United States The Dwarf Fashion Show Owner Myriam Chalek explains - fashion] is not about the person who is wearing the garment but it is about the garment. If one can walk the runway and showcase the outfit, then she can be a model.
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