Chief organizer Ayesha Tammy Haq explained why they felt they must go on with the show: “We, the members of Fasion Pakistan, feel great to host this colourful event at difficult times of our history when the entire nation is waging a battle against militancy.”So on Wednesday, gorgeous models pranced and preened, sashayed down the runway in luxe fabrics — batting paint-heavy eyelashes. Backstage, make-up artists ran around panting, tracking down lip-gloss, while hairstylists were never without mouthfulls of barrettes. Meanwhile, lining the sides of the stage were Pakistan’s elite — the glitterati of a country where most women observe varying degrees of Islamic codes of dress that require them to cover up.
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Edit Update: Hey, commenters! Thank you very much for correcting the designers’ names. At the time I posted this, there was no other photo content online for me to help sort what I found and I was silly to just trust the captions embedded in the photo data. Thanks for correctly crediting those whose creativity shines through in these pieces.
