Skin Bleaching Models were banned from Dakar Fashion 2013...

Models At Dakar Fashion Week 2013

Backstage at Dakar Fashion Week, a group of young women squeeze into impossibly high heels while others sit still as make-up artists paint their eyelids a shining emerald colour. All legs and cheekbones, the models are subject to the same pressures as their counterparts in London, Paris and New York. And perhaps more.
Like some women from the streets of Senegal, some fashion models in West Africa have bleached their skin, seeking to achieve a “cafe au lait” colour regarded by some as the aesthetic ideal.