Wednesday, August 3

Live Beach fashion mannequins cause agitation in Milan

MILAN - models, in shorts and bikinis in the window of a department store in Central Milan attention over the weekend, with Italy's unions denouncing the Merchandisation of the human body.

The male and female models appeared for the first time, that last week in the Windows of the Department store Mint to promote the summer sale on bathing costumes, and then to criticise Italy of Filcams CGIL Trade Union, work considered degrading.


"Let us be clear, we are not against the sale or a market economy, or consumers." "But we want to defend the propriety of the workers and the intelligence of customers", said the Union in a statement on Friday.


The models just disappeared from the Windows, but were again on Saturday, this time holding signs saying "Modeling has also a job."


Go here to see pictures of the models on coin website.


"Coin not the models from the window pull back, we have not seen for some reason to do so." The promotion on Saturday and Sunday, "said the Department store, in a statement."


On Monday, the models were gone, but Mint Director Stefano Beraldo, that speech on the occasion of the annual general meeting of the group in Mestre in Venice, congratulated itself on free advertising of the Union his group offered and said that she had provided the opportunity employment of young people to.


"These children, we have a job and we paid their money's worth." You rather work than stay idle in the streets. So what? And reading the messages-pin ups? "Or big brother?"


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