Warsaw’s symbol, a half naked mermaid, will have her chest covered on a poster promoting the Miss World 2006 contest competition, after the original version was judged too erotic. The artist Rafal Olbinski redrew the poster and placed a white scarf with the “Miss World” inscription across the offending body part, said his agent, Piotr Reichel. He “agreed to make the change at the request from the Warsaw promotion office,” the artist’s agent, Piotr Reichel, said.
This year’s Miss World pageant will be held in Polish Capital, Warsaw on September 30. The city’s symbol is a naked-breasted mermaid. The mermaid, central to Warsaw’s founding legend, is depicted in two statues in the capital and appears on the city’s crest as naked from the waist up. Olbinski’s poster originally showed a mermaid on a seesaw, with her red top revealing one of her breasts.
Tadeusz Deszkiewicz, head of Warsaw city hall’s promotion bureau, told The Associated Press that there is “no doubt that Olbinski’s original version was strongly erotic and we did not want to attach such aspect to the Miss World contest.”
Marcus Agar of the Miss World organization, said the competition was still “delighted with the poster” with the white scarf addition. “It perfectly combines the emblem of Warsaw with Miss World,” he said from his office in England.

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