International Dwarf Fashion Show

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International Dwarf Fashion Show
Founded New York City, U.S. (2014)
FoundersCreative Business House & Donnons Leur Une Chance
Location
Key people
 Myriam Chalek (founder)
Website www.thedwarfashionshow.com

The International Dwarf Fashion Show, also known as The National Dwarf Fashion Show, is a non-profit organization [1] [2] which seeks to empower and raise awareness to people living with dwarfism by putting on fashion shows consisting entirely of people living with dwarfism. They are best known for their contribution to fashion week in Paris, [3] New York [1] and Berlin. [4]

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History

After seeing a dwarf woman struggling to find appropriate clothes, CEO of CBH Model Management Myriam Chalek decided she wanted to raise awareness about achondroplasia (a form of dwarfism) by exposing the fashion and modeling industry to the unexplored market of dwarfism. [5] [6] [7]

Chalek and the nonprofit Donnons Leur Une Chance founded The Dwarf Fashion Show, consisting entirely of dwarf models. The Dwarf Fashion Show took part in Paris's annual fashion week and received extensive media coverage. [8]

In 2015, due to the heightened success of The Dwarf Fashion Show, Chalek took what was supposed to be a single event and created the non-profit The International Dwarf Fashion show. [1]

The mission of the International Dwarf Fashion Show is "to reverse the discriminatory diktats of beauty and to give the opportunity to little people to express themselves by bringing an innovative perspective to the fashion industry. Also, while giving people opportunity, they also highly edited photos of people to make their image not look like them anymore. [9]

Involvement in Fashion Weeks

A special show at the White House to commemorate the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act is being planned.

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