A fashion show against cancer in Toulouse!
A unique event in the Pink City: Saturday October 1st at 8:00 p.m., a fashion show to defy cancer will take place in the Espaces Vanel, with an exceptional view over the rooftops of Toulouse.
Under the impetus of Emmanuelle Bonnet’s be.Happy association, women and men with cancer will parade in outfits by Toulouse designers with their companions. About twenty models will present 5 paintings in a festive atmosphere.
Highlighting supportive care
The main objective of this parade is to raise awareness of supportive care that is so supportive for patients and their caregivers, and important in reclaiming the Self. The models will be people undergoing treatment for cancer or in the post-cancer phase, and companions.
At the Joseph Ducuing Hospital (Toulouse), Doctor Claire Chauffour-Ader initiated “La Parenthèse”: three days a week, patients with ALD (Long-Term Condition) meet doctors, physiotherapists, osteopaths, nutritionists, aromatherapist and wellness practitioner, reflexologist, psychologist, image consultant, sophrologist, socio-esthetician, hypnotherapist, shiatsu practitioner. Thus these patients are cared for with a view to humanizing and personalizing care.
As Dr. Chauffour explains, “Supportive care was designed to improve patients’ quality of life and break isolation. Thanks to this care and the proximity of other patients, other links are established. Care takes different forms to get out of all-medication. At the parenthesis, the patients do not hide and this parade is one more way for them to overcome the fear and the shame sometimes linked to the disease. »
This “parenthesis” at La Parenthèse allows everyone to reconcile with their body and regain confidence. It generates a change in the experience of the disease.
About 350 people are expected at the Espaces Vanel in Toulouse for this parade around the theme: “Children’s Games” or how to get back to the source, to the essentials.
To know more :
Facebook : facebook.com/be.support
Instagram: instagram.com/be.support
To register : https://www.payasso.fr/be-happy/defile2022