An event held outside the Chinese embassy in the Prague last Wednesday, showed striking photographs that contrasted beautiful fashions with the controversial human rights abuses of this year’s Olympic Games host country.
The photographs show dramatized situations where beauty and brutality meet in frozen moments of great consequence. In one, a graceful Asian woman dressed in a green and purple silk gown assists a Tibetan protester who has fallen on the ground. With her other arm she tries to ward off the blows of a Chinese soldier armed with a truncheon, poised with his arms pulled back, like a baseball player ready to strike.
In another of the stylized photographs, the woman, now dressed in a red and gold silk gown, tries to hold back the arm of a surgeon who, with a large knife in his other hand, is removing organs from an apparently unconscious Falun Gong practitioner.
Other graphic photographs played on the same theme, grace and beauty warding off cruelty, capturing the most controversial abuses of the Chinese Communist regime. They are part of Czech fashion designer Marie Copps’ latest collection named “Beauty and Horror” and part of her larger campaign “Give help a chance – Fashion for help aimed on highlighting the human rights abuses of the Chinese communist regime.”
