Lahore Fashion Week Showcases Pakistani Talent

The city of Lahore has long enjoyed the status of being Pakistan’s cultural capital, and thus served as the perfect backdrop to a dazzling Fashion Week. The four-day long exercise in aesthetic magnificence jolted the world into seeing the beauty and rich vision of Pakistanis.
Lahore Fashion Week, organized by the Pakistan Fashion Design Council, welcomed the chance to show off the creative side of Pakistan and tickets to all shows were sold out instantly.
The fact is, Pakistan has always loved fashion. The Quaid’s sister was a fashion icon in her own right, consistently wearing smart, sophisticated outfits.


Art and beauty have always been part of the fabric of Pakistani culture.
It is for that reason that we Pakistanis reject the claim that Fashion Week was a direct reaction to militancy. Creativity and innovation have long since been inherent in Pakistan, they are not new! What Fashion Week has done is demonstrate who we are as a people to the West: no, we are not the Taliban, and we categorically reject their radical views. All that our fashion shows have illustrated is that we are proud of our culture and we are not willing to let it go.
One of Pakistan’s top models, Vazeena Ahmed, put it best: “You know, we are very liberal — in our way of thinking, in our way of dressing up. Islam does not preach all that the Taliban are telling. For me at least, that’s not being a Muslim. That’s being a terrorist.”
This is who we are. We are a brilliant, imaginative and adventurous people. Our fashions have long since catered to the diversity within Pakistan – a country that boasts people of varying cultures and complexions.
Lahore Fashion Week may have surprised the world, but we know our designing abilities and talents have always been there. We are not a country ruled by the Taliban, our society can never accept such a miserable reality.
Western media portrayed this event as Pakistanis standing firm in the face of conservatism, but that isn’t quite true. We are simply being Pakistanis.

Source:-http://realpaknationalists.com/2010/02/24/lahore-fashion-week-showcases-pakistani-talent/