Murderous tyrants are out of fashion.
IMG canceled Gulnara Karimova’s Fashion Week show following a Post story on her Uzbek dictator father’s human rights abuses, The Post has learned.
“As a result of concerns raised, we have canceled the Guli show on September 15th,” a spokesman for the Fashion Week producer said today.
After the Post reported on Karimova’s show, human rights groups fumed it was outrageous to grant her family permission to land on New York’s runways.
Uzbek leader Islam Karimov has long been accused of wrongfully imprisoning and slaughtering dissidents, and forcing schoolchildren into slave labor.
Unaccustomed to giving into protesters, Karimova fought to keep her show alive.
IMG reached out to her team yesterday, a fashion source told the Post, “asking them to cancel the show.”
This morning “they responded and refused,” the source said. “So IMG canceled it on its own.”
Karimova could not be reached for comment.
The jet-setting would-be fashionista’s family has close ties to event sponsor Mercedes Benz, but the company says that the relationship had nothing to do with her getting the show.
“We have no influence on the contents of the fashion show or the program itself,” said Han Tjan, a spokesman for Mercedes. “We’re just sponsoring. If you’re the sponsor of the football game, you can’t decide who is playing.”
jcovert@nypost.com