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THIS IS A JOKE RIGHT?

‘Establishing Washington As The Center Of International Fashion’

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.


12:22 PM on Wed February 18 2009
By Malaka Gharib
1821 Views

  1. “Ethnodrag/Arab Ziggy Stardust” is how my parents describe me to their friends.

  2. MathewBrooks says at 12:24 pm, February 18th, 2009

    The glamor is blinding…

  3. MathewBrooks says at 12:25 pm, February 18th, 2009
  4. Mr Blifil says at 12:27 pm, February 18th, 2009

    Uzbeks are noted for their fashion sense.

  5. Red Zeppelin says at 12:30 pm, February 18th, 2009

    Yes, Washington is very much the North American Beijing of the fashion world–there women are still wearing Mao suits.

  6. Oh, how ornate and colorful. NUKE ‘EM!

  7. SayItWithWookies says at 12:31 pm, February 18th, 2009

    Oh, my — this year’s theme is apparently “Rejected costume designs from the sci-fi adaptation of Les Miserables.”

  8. shanemacgowan says at 12:32 pm, February 18th, 2009

    “highest number of women who still wear socks and sneakers with their skirt suits and nude pantyhose”

    So?

  9. Naked Bunny with a Whip says at 12:39 pm, February 18th, 2009

    I’d hit that. Beads and leather are hot.

  10. Lascauxcaveman says at 12:40 pm, February 18th, 2009

    More boobage, please.

  11. Dean Booth says at 12:40 pm, February 18th, 2009

    When these designers say women should avoid camel toe, they mean it literally.

  12. Come here a minute says at 12:44 pm, February 18th, 2009

    Please stop using fancy fashion words like “boobage”. This is Wonkette classic, not Wonkette After Dark, or whatever.

  13. V572625694 says at 12:49 pm, February 18th, 2009

    shanemacgowan: So it looks dorky.

  14. Naked Bunny with a Whip says at 12:49 pm, February 18th, 2009

    “Boobies” is the colloquial term for “tits”. The fashion term is “bazongas”. I think it’s Italian.

    – The More You Know! *whoosh*

  15. space stout says at 12:52 pm, February 18th, 2009

    “there’s a lot of native headdresses and boobage going on, lots of feathers, fur and sparklies” Is Cher in town?

  16. Veronica Corningstone says at 1:04 pm, February 18th, 2009

    Those women all look like Mrs. Roper.

  17. Ethnodrag? That’s putting the darkies in their place!

    Can we move these posts to another feed?

  18. sanantonerose says at 2:00 pm, February 18th, 2009

    Veronica Corningstone: BWAH! The one model sporting the raccoon headdress looks really pissed off. I asked for squirrel, dammit, NOT raccoon!

  19. PolicyWhore says at 2:45 pm, February 18th, 2009

    It’s not all bad, but it is pretty amateur… and mostly bad.

  20. Scandalabra says at 7:55 pm, February 18th, 2009

    The Smithsonian Costume Institute has announced its exhibition of Hillary’s pantsuits. Fashion has come of age in our nation’s capital.

  21. El Pinche says at 8:22 pm, February 18th, 2009

    there is no glamor when you live between a KFC and strip club and nothing else for miles.

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