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Fashion defies threats in Karachi

Designers, models, photographers and fashion-conscious members of the public have defied militant threats to celebrate couture culture. Staging Karachi Fashion Week has not been without its problems. It’s already been postponed by almost a month due to the potential for militant attacks on an event that dares to bare. Hopes of attracting top international designers and models were spoiled after a wave of high profile terror attacks across the country. The fashion week has, however, attracted 35 top Pakistani designers, many of whom are well known in South Asia - like Deepak Perwani and Maheen Khan, who recently attended Milan fashion week. Most of Pakistan’s top female models are at the event, taking to the catwalks in defiance not only of Taliban threats but local social norms in this often-conservative Muslim country.

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