Brazil’s top catwalk shows to be held next month could be disrupted by a rogue fashion event featuring only black models unless a perceived racial bias towards whites is overturned.

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In the last Sao Paulo Fashion Week (SPFW), in January, just eight of the 344 models were black.

The prosecutors and other groups are calling for a quota system to be implemented under which the skin color on the city’s catwalks would be more representative of Brazil’s population.

According to official figures, just seven percent of Brazil’s famously varied population consider themselves purely black — but another 43 percent see themselves as mixed-race, of African descent. The other 50 percent call themselves white.

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