Against the law?
Photo: Chris Sant Fournier
It's not every day that a pretty girl wearing a bikini is seen rollerblading through the fountains of St George's Square, Valletta. But since the old parking lot was transformed into an open space, the possibilities are endless. Or are they? The fashion shoot of Pink magazine had to be cut short yesterday because apparently people are not allowed to wear swimwear anywhere but the beach.
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Claire Busuttil
May 6th 2010, 23:40
@lana Xuereb...... sorry .....doing what??? dancing on roller blades with a bikini??....no big deal at all, and anyway, you was just doing a job for the photoshoot.....most comments, I think (at least mine) were not intented to the photos that you were shooting, after all as you said it is artistic....no problem with that...my issue is, the lack of clothes in our cities.....that`s it....!!
Claire Busuttil
May 6th 2010, 23:35
@Mark Grech- age have nothing to do with this issue......the issue here is respect...maybe you are just too small, to know what it is .....aren`t you??...it really shows11
J Borg
May 6th 2010, 23:03
Beautiful shot
Mauro Cilia
May 6th 2010, 20:10
Vizjoni 2015
Jason Coleiro
May 6th 2010, 17:55
shows only the real mediocre people the maltese are, and the police stopped her????or was the church scandalised as usual??? i aint seeing nothing wrong.
Johnathan Cilia
May 6th 2010, 15:44
Wow haha what a fail. I can't believe they stopped her, and a photo shoot no less! Haha I really find this funny, that the police have nothing better to do than tell girls in bikinis to get dressed haha. Get real people, it's only a girl in a bikini!!!!
Catherine Perré
May 6th 2010, 07:02
I'm so surprised that a girl in bikini could cause so lot of trouble in Malta!!
ok i'm french (i'm sorry!!LOL) but that girl at first, was working!! And nothing bad is in wearing a bikini in a fountain!!
Even the angels were nude!!! and again that girl was in bikini and was working
Please open your mind we are not living in cavern anymore!!!
and wearing a bikini on the street is not against morality especially when you are a model working....
those time there are so lot of subjects more disturbing than to wear a bikini or not ...that is the question!!!!
i just wanted to give my french little point of view...let the artists working!!!!!!!!!!!!
Claire Busuttil
May 5th 2010, 17:44
@Charmaine Marmara-
hahahah.....kemm taf targumenta!!!!!.....sinjal li ma daqtx ghal widnejk dak li smajt!!
Mark Grech
May 6th 2010, 16:00
Wow Claire, I read your comments. Your an old woman aren't you? It really shows.
MBorg
May 5th 2010, 17:21
@ Charmaine Marmara
Wide awake and laughing. Sorry, but our taste differ. Unlike you, loose hanging flesh , local or imported, makes me look the other way..
Claire Busuttil
May 5th 2010, 15:17
@anthea doughty- yes good idea to cover her up in a towel....you should have tought of that in the begining!!! it was so simple you see!!
Claire Busuttil
May 5th 2010, 14:56
@Charmaine Marmara
People who go around not dressed properly...(bare tummies/bikinis etc....) have no right to dressed like that in public....this is a fact my dear.....whilst me, saying what I said.....yes, I have the right to say so, as here there is freedom of expresion......I `m sorry for you...
Charmaine Marmara'
May 5th 2010, 16:21
mur orqod
Claire Busuttil
May 5th 2010, 14:52
@Kevin Cassar......what are you saying???? I am not discussing about normalality so how came yoiu are saying that I am judging in the first place?!??!???!
MBorg
May 5th 2010, 13:39
@ Charmaine Marmara.
We have every right to call men with bare tummies disgusting. What is attractive in a kilo of flesh hanging over the front of men's trousers? Disgusting is not a strong enough .
Charmaine Marmara'
May 5th 2010, 16:22
mur orqod int ukol .....
JOHN O SCERRI
May 5th 2010, 13:34
Just got a glimpse of this article. But did not go to all the comments
What's all the fuss? She's dressed in a bikin for a Photoshoot .
Many people especially women walking into public places like Materdei Hospital with belly buttons + piercing as well as rear end slits showing + tattoos , tangas and g strings of all colours showing off their ' wears' not to mention cleavage.
Yes one's eyes do go there automatically especially if the parts are right in one's face.
Also Men and youngsters with their pants half way down their bottom with bare plateaus and bushy landscapes showing in the distance !!!!!!!
How about what certain people wear in work places , offices , factories.
Are all the above compliant with our laws ??
Come on ........... Look at the photo .
It's a photo shoot for a fashion magazine . Its more decent than what we see in every day life.
Why all the fuss ?
MBorg
May 5th 2010, 13:32
@ Anthea Doughty
Sorry about your daughter's accident. Your visit " to the hispital in Floriana " was not planed, howaever you had just visited a doctor before. It is not proper to visit a Doctor's clinic in a bikini top. As you rightly wrote swinwear is to be worn only at the beach. Was the doctor's clinic on a beach? It only takes a minute to put on a top.
Kevin Cassar
May 5th 2010, 17:41
Don't generalize. When my (then) 2 year old son fell some stairs and started bleeding, I just grabbed my son and ran all the way to the clinic (about half a km). I was without a shirt (I actually took it off and wrapped it on the bleeding wound), and you know what, I coudn't have cared less. If I had just got out of the shower and was naked, I'd have done the same. If it's against the law, fine me, put me in prison - whatever suits your bronze age fancy, see if I care or would jeopardize my son's health for stupid laws! The people at the clinic had no problem with my semi nudity (I find it hard to conceive a doctor or nurse who has a problem with naked people).
Joe Fenech
May 5th 2010, 13:21
The Talibans strikes again!
Charmaine Marmara'
May 5th 2010, 09:54
@ claire busuttil ...disgusting is your way of thinking omg police ...laws........ this goes also to man, with bare tummies....disgusting. U HAVE NO RIGHT TO CALL MEN DISGUSTING .....
Claire Busuttil
May 5th 2010, 09:44
@R.Borg, ......ohhh if you think that a bare male tummy is some kind of sexy....well you are really wrong......maybe if it is a sixpack...that`s another story....but yeahh how many bare tummies in six pack you see???......and anyway...it is disgusting yes, to be seen in bare tummies/sixpack/bikinis etc in a city!!! It is lack of civilisation......
and by the way who do you think you are to jugde normaltiy??!??????!?!??!
Kevin Cassar
May 5th 2010, 12:04
"and by the way who do you think you are to jugde normaltiy??!??????!?!??!"
Hellooooo!!! Are you awake?!?! Isn't that just what YOU are doing? Ah I see, it's ok for you but not for anyone who does not see things like you do. How typical.
anthea doughty
May 5th 2010, 09:41
@ Georgina England - your comment is disgusting - whether someone is fat or thin is besides the point and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I agree that walking about in swimwear anywhere other than the beach is improper, I do not think it right that women on holiday in your country and others feel it is acceptable to walk about in shorts and bikini top - it is disrespectful. My experience of Malta was tarnished however when I had to take my teenage daughter to hospital in Floriana when we were there, it was unexpected to be sent there by the doctor at the clinic we went to so we were unprepared and my daughter was wearing shorts and a bikini top. The looks of disgust and almost hatred that she received from the people sitting in the waiting area inside the door made me feel very angry, I was shocked. We were also stopped by the security guard who said she could not enter dressed the way she was. We had to get a beach towel from the car and cover her up to go in - get a grip! Time and place....
Simon Camilleri
May 5th 2010, 09:13
this was a photoshoot - for an advert - same as a film - it is not meant to reflect reality. Otherwise we'd all be driving SUVs in beautiful unspoilt countryside and sipping drinks on clean quiet beaches with unpolluted water and no speedboats. Perhaps police permission should be sought beforehand, however I cant see any reason why it should be refused
E Compagno
May 5th 2010, 08:56
OMG.. this is disgraceful!
She's not wearing any..... knee/elbow pads!
Charmaine Marmara'
May 5th 2010, 16:24
vera disgrace !!!! lol
lana xuereb
May 5th 2010, 20:23
hi everyone im the model..i just want to say that WE are artistic PPL ..and those girls who commented and said its a disgrace ..well call me when you get the ability to do that pls..kiss kiss everyone
G Brewsky
May 5th 2010, 08:24
I think in cases like this we should seriously consider declaring the whole of Malta a beach!!!!! In cases of lobster red-speedo English, the beach ends 20m out at sea!!!! haha
Paul Barrett
May 5th 2010, 00:23
I agree totally that this female is improperly dressed and a bad example to all. She should be wearing knee and elbow pads.
marthese mussett
May 4th 2010, 23:14
What s the big deal?Yes,swimwear is for the beach.But this was only a photoshoot.The model would have put her normal clothes back on in no time.I read pink magazine and I know they like to use different places for their photoshoots,even old buildings.They could have let them get on with it.Also,hoiw many men are going to be told off for wearing white socks with sandals this summer?Now that IS a crime.
tony camilleri
May 4th 2010, 22:55
i just read a few posts and most people didn't understand that this was a photo shoot ie a situation in which the model was there with a purpose... plus there was nothing private showing from what we can see in this shot (btw kudos to the photographer). so.. if it was a ballroom dancing exhibition... or an acrobatic exhibition with tight swimwear... would the police have stopped them?
e.galea
May 4th 2010, 22:21
another cemetery photoshoot issue :) lol we love these issue..the cemetery was quite daring..thumbs up for them again :
MBorg
May 4th 2010, 21:32
@R.Borg
It was,is and I hope will remain " acceptable and understanding for people to feel attraction for the opposite sex "
However there is nothing wrong or " out of place " in what Claire Busuttil wrote, men walking about in our streets with bare tummies are disgusting. What is there to attract you in a bare, read beer, tummy that most men are so happy to put on show?
Now that summer is near the police should clamp down on tourist who treat our cities like beaches. Some have the guts to go about covered in sun cream
lsmith
May 6th 2010, 12:59
Are you for real??? what does sun cream have to do with this?? Is it not better that people are actually protecting themselves from the dangers of the sun? Or should we make everyone cover themselves from head to toe in public.
Oh and for all the other commentators saying that all fat people should be covered up, well how dare you!! What might be fat and ugly to you may be beautiful to someone else. Who has the right to judge whether someone is too FAT to show off their bodies. Whether you agree or disagree with the swimwear "argument" one rule should apply to all, not just the "beautiful" people.
R. Borg
May 4th 2010, 20:37
@Claire Busuttil
For the last couple of million of years, it was quite ' acceptable ' and ' understanding ' for people to feel attraction for the opposite sex, at least for a normal human being.
So when i read your comment ' disgusting ' it sounded a bit, how shall we call it, perhaps ' out of place '
I fully agree that both men and women should only dress in beach clothes only at beaches, but to judge men with bare torsos / tummies and describing them as disgusting, well thats over and above the acceptable limit.
But as i said earlier that's what makes normal human beings different from the abnormal ones !
Jesmond Micallef
May 4th 2010, 20:34
Somewhat reminds of an earlier photo shoot on consecrated grounds sometime last year. Indeed an attractive slim sportive female on roller baldes. May I congatulate this sportive female, she has certainly caught my attention. Furthermore, I am also into the visual arts, do I see a tatoo on her side just above her waist. ? I love attention to detail.....!! I congratulate this female once again, she certainly caught my attention, well done indeed.
Indeed, such swimwear should not be allowed apart from it belongs, the seaside on the beach.
J. Spiteri
May 4th 2010, 19:10
Surely much better than the woman ( ? ) I saw yesterday morning in Nazju Ellul Street, Gzira, covered from head to toe, wearing a black full face veil, with just an eye slit ! B'has soltu, jew nejja jew mahruqa ! By the way, are they BOTH breaking the law ?
ACamilleri
May 4th 2010, 18:58
SO WE WANT TO COVER UP THIS AWESOME CREATION OF GOD WHILE AT THE SAME TIME ALLOWING THE OPERA HOUSE TO GO TOPLESS!!!
Claire Busuttil
May 4th 2010, 18:05
Obviously that is against the law to wear a bikini in a city.....that kind of wear is proper for beaches...it is a form of disrespect to not dress in a decent way in public....this goes also to man, with bare tummies....disgusting.
I only hope that police take more care of this issue, as in Valletta it is not a rare scene , espescially in summer seeing turists dressed for the beach....I never went to for example Rome or London, and so someone walking by in a swim suit......have you???
Charles Callus
May 4th 2010, 17:29
Dazgur. Ma ninsewx li Malta hi l-ahhar bastjun tal-moralita f'din in-naha ta' l-univers. Ghall daqs tant, in-nisa kollha ghandhom jilbsu l-ghonella.
J.Agius
May 4th 2010, 17:17
Wow a treat to all hunters from cabs to keep them out of the contryside.Hunters you are wrong this bird is tooo nice to shoot.But bird watchers are now asking the boys in blue to shoot.They say its against the law.Off course because cabs cannot use their binochulars in the city.In the country they can hide!! After all like the maltese hunters!!A case of mistaken Identity.
J.Agius
MBorg
May 4th 2010, 17:02
Always the same comments when something like this comes up. " Taliban land " "the morality police are at it again " "Iran in the Med " etc. They all try to show how very modern they are, and that in this century anything goes. and everything should be allowed.
Swimwear , as the name implies, should be worn only on the beach or by the pool. No one should be allowed to parade in our streets or shops in bikinis. Some might be surprised to learn that Malta is not the only " Iran in the Med " Swinwear and men who bare their torso are not allowed in Florance, Venice and Nice to name just a few cities. Funny nobody would dream of calling these cities "Taliban land ".
Raissa Tabone
May 5th 2010, 21:08
Yes, we agree... but once again - this is a photoshoot!!! And the people sitting behind her don't seem to be scandalized! They're not even looking her way! It's not a big deal!!
Georgina England
May 4th 2010, 16:46
I totally agree that people shouldn't be parading around in swimwear.......if they're fat, but as she has a gorgeous body she was surely brightening up someone's day.
mario pandolfino
May 4th 2010, 15:05
X'diferenza min dawk il vetturi kollha ipparkjati .Meta sejra terga tkun din ix-show?
James Caruana
May 4th 2010, 14:48
LOL at all the comments xDD
and why should this be banned? in my teenage opinion, it sounds like a cool idea (and no that isn't an intended pun). liiks like a fun way to cool off =] next time I'm headed for Valletta, I'll don my swimming trunks nd maybe borrow a pair of roller blades nd do what this girl did just to cool off!!!
g. scerri
May 4th 2010, 14:41
So the space in front of our Presidential palace is no different from the children's adventure playground at Ta' Qali. That is some people's idea of the dignity Valletta deserves.
William P Flynn
May 4th 2010, 17:00
Dignity? What dignity? I thought this was about tits and bums and the best way to package and show them near water.
Ramon Casha
May 4th 2010, 14:21
Poor Neptune, unable to move any part of his body. Hope he wasn't uncomfortable :)
n mifsud
May 4th 2010, 13:01
@ law
only in malta :))
John Hughes
May 4th 2010, 12:35
You have to be kidding? 2010
William P Flynn
May 4th 2010, 12:28
Yes of course swimwear on the beach.... but also in the swimming pool. OK it's pretty shallow ... but I see a pool....I definitely see a pool....you can't do the breast stroke in it..but it is a pool.
And a nice pair of……rollerblades she's wearing too.....
Anybody stopping that girl doing her thing should be arrested for prudery.
victor pulis
May 4th 2010, 11:23
neptune just across the square must have had a giggle!
William P Flynn
May 4th 2010, 13:30
Any more of this and someone would have had to find Neptune a bigger fig leaf.
Pulis. D
May 4th 2010, 11:10
What a Prude country Malta is.
R. Cassar
May 4th 2010, 11:01
Yet its okay for tourists to walk around paceville or on the promenade in their bikini's.
Anna Farrugia
May 4th 2010, 11:01
Oh! Please! and half naked men and women can walk the streets of Valletta, Bugibba, Qawra etc oh! I see - the last 2 are beach resorts are they so it is permissable! And Valletta......
EDWIN DE MARCO
May 4th 2010, 10:56
Quite right! The authorities should have asked her to take her bikini off as it's not allowed in public! LOL. Is the beach a public place? How come some bus drivers are allowed to drive topless during our hot Summers? Blatant discrimination.
Ian Fenech
May 4th 2010, 10:22
If we ever needed more proof that we live in Taliban land.
I would understand if it were tourists walking in Valletta scantly dressed, but this was a photo shoot
Sean Grima
May 4th 2010, 10:20
get a life!
chris camilleri
May 4th 2010, 10:19
Better a pretty girl dancing round a fountain in a bikini than a fat british guy doing his shopping in a speedo!!!
andrewbrincat
May 4th 2010, 13:10
hahahaha well said.
Lisa Schembri
May 4th 2010, 14:56
Its still sexist to let one and not the other but i have to say *indeeeeeeeeedddd*!!!
Plus it was only for a photoshoot anyway...Its not 80's california anymore; Skinny blondes rollerblading through the streets in neon green thong bikini's !! XD
Mark Vella
May 4th 2010, 10:16
hehehehehehhehe, burqa jmiss! U mhux il beach biss!
Joe Cassar
May 4th 2010, 10:15
Iran-in-the-Med comes closer every day
A.E. Camilleri
May 4th 2010, 10:05
The report ends by saying "apparently people are not allowed to wear swimwear anywhere but the beach." Now that's good news to one and all as it is something the population here would like to have controlled on the promenades, roads & buses. Who is to take responsibility to exert the required control? Get moving chums! Wear swimwear solely on our beaches!!!!!
joe scerri
May 4th 2010, 09:55
The morality police are at it again.
K. Pullicino
May 4th 2010, 09:53
Woops... here come the barrage of comments of those who say we should be living in the 21st Century against those who say there should be a degree of order in the country. It will just never end.