Sao Paulo Fashion Week: Brazilian model passes away after a fall on catwalk

In a shocking turn of events, a Brazilian male model passed away after collapsing on the catwalk this Saturday. He was walking for a show on the last day of Sao Paulo Fashion Week.

The organizers said, “SPFW has just received the news of the death of model Tales Soares, who suddenly took ill during the Ocksa show.Tales Soares took ill while in a parade of fashion brand Ocksa on Saturday. A medical team attended to him on the catwalk and Soares was later taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.”

“We offer our sincere condolences to Tales’ family,” it said

As per reports by Daily Folha, Soares 26 tripped on his shoelace and fell and the people in the crowd initially thought his fall was part of a performance. A picture in the newspapers showed a model lying face down on the catwalk as paramedics attended to him.

Label Ocksa said on Instagram its entire team was “shocked” by the death of Soares, who was signed to Base MGT modeling agency.

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