From next
year, the Miss World contest will no longer feature the contestants on bikini. In
a private meeting, Julia Morley, the chairwoman of Miss World (she assumed the
role following the death of her husband in 2000), announced to
the
international directors that the bikini portion will be eliminated entirely
beginning in 2015
“The
organization has decided to take itself out of the swimsuit world because it
isn’t the path they’re trying to take,” Chris Wilmer, the national director of
Miss World America/Miss United States organization, said. “It’s not just a
beauty contest, it’s ‘beauty with a purpose’. There didn’t seem to be a purpose
to have the swimsuit.”
Miss World got
rid of bikinis in 2013 (out of respect to host country Indonesia.)
This will
be the first year in the event's 63-year history in which the contestants put
on a "beachwear" fashion show instead of parading down the catwalk in
bikinis,
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