July 6 Photo Brief: Outrageous, and backless, fashion, masked women and Tour de crash
Avant-garde pieces from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and Bread & Butter street fashion trade fair, French sex workers protest anti-prostitution measures, bicycle and motorcycle crashes and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A model walks the runway during the Guido Maria Kretschmer Show at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013 on July 5, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. (Samir Hussein/Getty Images)
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- Prostitutes wearing masks hold placards as they attend a demonstration with sex workers activists against a proposition to abolish prostitution in Lyon July 6, 2012. The French Minister for women’s rights wanted to eradicate the sex trade in France and new measures to stamp out prostitution. The placards read “always more duty but always none right” (L), “no, it’s no” (C) and “the noise of the street against the silence of elected representatives. Even with your laws, we will be still there.” (Emmanuel Foudrotâ/Reuters)
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- Professor Peter Higgs poses for a photograph following a news conference at the launch of The University of Edinburgh’s new Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Scotland. (David Moir/Reuters)
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- Women, wearing nylon masks, chat as they rest on the shore during their visit to a beach in Qingdao, Shandong province July 6, 2012. The mask, which was invented by a woman about seven years ago, is used to block the sun’s rays. The mask is under mass production and is on sale at local swimwear stores. (Aly Song/Reuters)
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- A fan, wearing a yellow jersey of overall leader, cheers on the pack riding in the 207,5 km and sixth stage of the 2012 Tour de France cycling race starting in Epernay and finishing in Metz, northeastern France. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Models take a break outside a former aircraft hangar at Temepelhof Airport at the 2012 Bread & Butter fashion trade fair in Berlin, Germany. Bread & Butter is the world’s largest trade fair for street fashion. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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- A general view shows riders and their crashed wheels after the crash of around 30 riders 26 km before the end of the 207,5 km and sixth stage of the 2012 Tour de France cycling race starting in Epernay and finishing in Metz, northeastern France. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Young men react as the American stoner rock and heavy metal band Red Fang performs at the Roskilde Festival, in Denmark. (Andreas Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A model walks the catwalk at the Hannes Kettritz Show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013 in Berlin, Germany. (Samir Hussein/Getty Images)
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- (L -R) Spain’s Dani Pedrosa of Repsol Honda Team, US Nicky Hayden of Ducati Team and Italy’s Andrea Dovizioso of the Repsol Honda team compete during the first training session of the MotoGP of the Grand Prix of Germany at the Sachsenring Circuit in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, eastern Germany. (Robert Michael/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Environmental activists demonstrate with a mock whale, during a protest against the plans of the South Korean government to resume hunting whales for research purpose, in central Seoul. South Korea on Wednesday proposed resuming whaling for scientific research, angering other Asian countries and conservationists who said the practice would skirt a global ban on whale hunting. (Woohae Cho/Reuters)
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- The Manneken-Pis fountain in Brussels sports a traditional Hong Kong costume. It is the first time the bronze boy that pees into a fountain wears such a costume, including a traditional Zhongshan suit and a clipboard under his arm. (Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Spanish miners burn tires to cut a road during a miner’s demonstration in Caborana, near Oviedo, in northern Spain. Spanish coal miners are staging a nationwide strike action organized by unions opposed to subsidy reductions from 301 million euros to 111 million euros. (Ceasar Manso/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Gymnasts from the Nanjing children’s gymnastic team stretch during a training session at a sports centre in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. The team with about thirty young gymnasts, between the ages of four to eight, is the representative of Nanjing city for the provincial gymnastic games. (Sean Yong/Reuters)
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- Finnish Niklas Ajo of TT Motion Events Racing team crashes during the second training session of the Moto3 of Germany at the Sachsenring Circuit in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, eastern Germany. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP/Getty Images)
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- The British government on Friday hoisted the rainbow flag symbolizing gay pride over one of its ministries for the first time. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg requested the flag be flown on Whitehall, the central London street that houses several ministries, ahead of the World Pride parade celebrating gay rights in the British capital on Saturday. (Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An exiled Tibetan Buddhist monk prepares a decorated portrait of Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama in honour of his 77th birthday at Boudha in the outskirts of Kathmandu. Thousands of Tibetans gathered to mark the Dalai Lama’s 77th birthday on July 6, with the Nepalese government saying it would not tolerate anti-China activities on its soil. (Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Visitors walk near the newly opened Hazrat Sultan mosque in the Kazakh capital Astana. The mosque is the largest in Central Asia, local media report. (Mukhtar Kholdorbekov/Reuters)
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