Mr Miro, who has featured prisoners in past shows, said he wanted to draw attention to the migrants' plight.
At least half of almost 30,000 illegal arrivals in Spain's Canary Islands, off West Africa, in 2006 were Senegalese.
Mr Miro defended his initiative, saying that he wanted to show solidarity toward immigrants.
He said some of the eight immigrants used in the catwalk show had started the process of obtaining Spanish work permits, while the others were in the country illegally.
"It's a way of giving them a tiny bit of me," Mr Miro said, adding that they were paid a small fee.
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