Post-Apartheid Style: Inside Africa's Biggest Fashion Week

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After making your way past bloggers and posers, shopping malls and sponsors to one of the world's many fashion weeks, it's sometimes easy to slump into your seat, thinking fashion couldn't matter less. But in South Africa, exactly 20 years after the end of Apartheid, it's obvious that clothing plays a hugely important socio-political and cultural role in the young democracy.

To the outsider, the sartorial chasm b...