What no one told you about Pakistan

Badge Collector. Omer/Canada,Pakistan/Student. Style snapped at Common Thread Trunk Show last month.

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The modern day Pakistani shephard, looking like a young Fresh Prince.

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PFDC L’Oréal Bridal Week 2011: Rouge Collection

From the PFDC L’Oréal Bridal Week 2011 (20/12/2011), Lahore. Couldn’t get the best angle thanks to incredible amount of bad guest management, shot these with Sony NEX-5D. You can see rest of the photos in the Flickr set.

*not my best work (via umalik)

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Islamabad Fashion Week

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Brooklyn, New York (VICE) — When people talk about fashion week, they are usually referring to London, Paris, New York and Milan. When I discovered that Islamabad was having its first ever fashion week, I was especially intrigued. In a country where the majority of women cover up and similar events in the past have been threatened with fundamentalist attacks, this had to be about promoting Pakistan’s textile industry in a strangled economy. The majority of Pakistan’s population wears traditional Shalwar Kameez or Burkha, are vehemently religious, poor and enjoy about a 50% illiteracy rate. I quickly learned that there are pockets of Pakistani society that have Western sensibilities, which warrants the fashion industry to grow and justifies the need for a fashion week.

The British High Commission advises against all but essential travel to Pakistan. After pondering how essential fashion journalism is, against the wishes of my family I flew out to Islamabad in January with the director William Fairman to document an event so incongruous with the Pakistan we see on the news, people thought we’d made it up. This fashion week represented an exclusive elite of Western-centric Pakistanis.

I managed with relative ease to secure carte blanche to film fly-on-the-wall at the event, with the exception of filming people boozing or blaspheming on camera.