Love Speaks Volumes

Last Thursday, Panos Emporio shocked Scandinavia by announcing that Rickard Engfors, Swedens best known cross-dresser, would be the signature model of the new collection Unlimited Love.

(PRWEB) February 5, 2004 --Engfors follows a line of beauties: Victoria Silvstedt, Traci Bingham, Janina Frostell-so his selection came as a surprise. The phones went hot in the region-all while illustrating that Panos himself had no limits about his choice.

This is not the theme to the core Panos Emporio range, which continues, but a brand-new swimwear line. The idea is simple enough: love is the strongest weapon humankind has.

Inside the swimwear is a poem written by the designer himself. It refers to Sappho (c. 630 BC), one of the earliest writers of female homosexuality, and Aphrodite, the goddess of fertility and love, embracing all nature. These evidently play on Panoss Greek heritage, but the range goes far further.

The message has far wider implications, including global, personal ones. The negativity that Panos speak of is institutionalised in so many countries: governments seeking power, telling people how limited they are without them. They create dependence; they create doubts in their citizenry. It is a foolish process: what nation could possibly survive when its citizens do not live to the greatest of their abilities? The choice of Rickard Engfors then becomes vitally clear.

'When I get the question of why I have chosen Rickard for this project, says Panos, 'I cannot answer that question, since this collection is based on true feelings. There is no answer to be told.

Effectively, Rickard Engfors, who has been limited by narrow-minded elements in society, has been freed" by national-indeed, international-exposure. So far, that strategy seems to be working: a full page in one of Swedens´ biggest evening papers on Friday and plenty of radio coverage. And if Rickard can be free and limitless, if he can dress in a range of fetching swimwear, then what excuse have we not to aim for the stars and accomplish our greatest dreams?

'I wish that this message [of Unlimited Love will be a milestone". [It is an important issue that mankind has struggled with for thousands and thousands of years, love. Let everyone experience love in their own way.

Text: Jack Yan

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