ABSTRACT
Catalan designer Antonio Miro created much controversy when he employed illegal immigrants from West Africa as models for his 2007 Barcelona fashion show. The set for the show featured a replica of cayucos - an open boat used to transport illegal immigrants from Africa to the Spanish shore - as eight ·models', mostly from Senegal, walked down the runway sporting designer clothes from Mira's latest collection. While some believed that this event called attention to immigration and asylum issues in Spain, others found the show in bad taste and exploitive.
