After years of working as prostitutes on the city's meanest streets, dozens of sex workers wearing brightly colored skirts, G-strings and other clothes designed by the fashion line Daspu made their way down the runway at a Copacabana Beach hotel last wbeek.
They anticipate changing people's ideas about them and winning respect for what they do under a fashion house, Daspu founded and run by sex workers.
Public consciousness about the fashion line soon grew, as Daspu sounded similar to a famous brand Daslu of a Sao Paulo luxury megastore.
Initially the store threatened to sue them, if they didn't change their line's name but then backed off after its threats were ridiculed in the news media.
Daspu's goal is not only selling clothes but also to bring the thorny issues surrounding Brazil's sex industry amid general public, although their top priority aims at altering Brazilian laws that prohibit businesses from hiring prostitutes, a measure that forces women to work alone under hazardous conditions.
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