Afghan capital Kabul enjoyed the first fashion show in decades this weekend as Italian designer Gabriella Ghidoni and her Afghan partner was showing her fashion collection.
Afghan capital Kabul enjoyed the first fashion show in decades this weekend as Italian designer Gabriella Ghidoni and her Afghan partner was showing her fashion collection.
The fashion show took place behind the guarded walls of a luxury hotel, to the strains of traditional Afghan music.
All collections consisted of conservatively cut clothes that included designer burqas.
The Taliban forced women to wear the all-enveloping burqa. However, today, nearly five years after the hard-line Islamists were ousted, many women still choose to wear burqas when they are out.
Models were expatriate women, to the disappointment of some in the audience. Having Afghan models would be too much of added controversy, designers decided.
"We invited a lot of Afghan women to attend the show but not to be models," said Italian designer Gabriella Ghidoni, who organised the show with an Afghan partner.
Gabriella Ghidoni and her partner, Afghan designer Zolaykha Sherzad, started off training women in fashion and jewellery design. They then began selling the clothes from their Kabul shops.
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