Fashion in Pyongyang
According to the Donga Pyongyang is becoming a fashion capitol:
The most prominent difference to be witnessed on the streets of Pyongyang in July of 2005 was the colorful and diverse clothes North Koreans passed by in.
Women clad themselves in a colorful array of clothes instead of the standard black skirt-white Jeogori (Korean traditional shirt) look. On a hot day, the ladies will go for a bright hat, and on a rainy day, a bright pair of rain boots. They were very stylish as well, many of them apparently no less so than young ladies seen in Myeong-dong, South Korea.
Men, too, changed from their usual sordid greenish inminbok (people’s clothes) looks to clean-cut looks with bright shirts without ties and black or navy pairs of suit pants.
I think this is probably the reason for the appearance of fashion in Pyongyang:
Perhaps North Korean authorities handed out nice clothes to their residents, mindful of the group of South Korean visitors.
For some reason I find it hard to believe the Nork women look anything like the over-dressed women in Myeongdong if it wasn’t staged to be that way.
The sordid tale of Anand Jon, the infamous Indian fashion designer who lost it all. Here’s a preview at AsianceMagazine
I am sure that the jump suit worn by Ding Dong Mentally Ill will be the next world wide fashion hit.