Fashion / style
New York’s Meatpacking District was once a raw industrial area lined with hundreds slaughterhouses. By the 1960s, as that industry was dying by day, the district came alive at night with beats, prostitutes, transsexuals, drug dealers and users, and other urban denizens. Then gentrification changed the area again. Up-scale designer stores, like the one above featuring Diane von Fürstenberg’s cacophonous shmatas, pockmarked the meandering cobblestone streets. This was fashion, and it drew affluent pseudo-hipsters like the slaughterhouses had once drawn flies.
But fashion is different from style, which is what these two cheerful Laotian women have in abundance as they stroll through Vientiane. In this slow-paced capital, which curls around the Mekong River like a sleeping cat, the inhabitants seem immune to the shifting lure of fashion.
Thanks. It's so much fun to get to play with both.
I'm with the Laotians! Those sweaters are really pretty!