This is quite the lofty statement coming from a town that has the highest number of women who still wear socks and sneakers with their skirt suits and nude pantyhose-post Working Girl: This week is DC Fashion Week, featuring top international designers not from France or Italy, but Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Uzbekistan.
Most of the clothing can be described as ethnodrag/Arab Ziggy Stardust — there’s a lot of native headdresses and boobage going on, lots of feathers, fur and sparklies.
Also, it’s not even in D.C. It’s in Maryland.
For a full list of catwalk events, click here: [DC Fashion Week] Call 1 (800) 494-8497 for tickets.
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“Ethnodrag/Arab Ziggy Stardust” is how my parents describe me to their friends.
The glamor is blinding…
See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHp7tn9yfm4&feature=related
Uzbeks are noted for their fashion sense.
Yes, Washington is very much the North American Beijing of the fashion world–there women are still wearing Mao suits.
Oh, how ornate and colorful. NUKE ‘EM!
Oh, my — this year’s theme is apparently “Rejected costume designs from the sci-fi adaptation of Les Miserables.”
“highest number of women who still wear socks and sneakers with their skirt suits and nude pantyhose”
So?
I’d hit that. Beads and leather are hot.
More boobage, please.
When these designers say women should avoid camel toe, they mean it literally.
Please stop using fancy fashion words like “boobage”. This is Wonkette classic, not Wonkette After Dark, or whatever.
[re=245999]shanemacgowan[/re]: So it looks dorky.
“Boobies” is the colloquial term for “tits”. The fashion term is “bazongas”. I think it’s Italian.
– The More You Know! *whoosh*
“there’s a lot of native headdresses and boobage going on, lots of feathers, fur and sparklies” Is Cher in town?
Those women all look like Mrs. Roper.
Ethnodrag? That’s putting the darkies in their place!
Can we move these posts to another feed?
[re=246055]Veronica Corningstone[/re]: BWAH! The one model sporting the raccoon headdress looks really pissed off. I asked for squirrel, dammit, NOT raccoon!
It’s not all bad, but it is pretty amateur… and mostly bad.
The Smithsonian Costume Institute has announced its exhibition of Hillary’s pantsuits. Fashion has come of age in our nation’s capital.
there is no glamor when you live between a KFC and strip club and nothing else for miles.
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