It is notable as "Latin America's pre-eminent fashion event"[1] and it is of the emerging fashion weeks, outside the Big Four of New York, London, Paris, and Milan, that have been established since the 1990s.

[2][3] It has been controversial in the past because of a "longstanding bias towards white models."

In 2009 quotas were imposed that required that 10 percent of models to be "black or indigenous" as a way to foster equal opportunity.

[1] In its 2019, the show featured a male transgender model, Sam Porto, for the first time in its history.

Soares was walking the runway when he suddenly stumbled and fell as he was about to exit.