Last week, Pakistan kicked off Fashion Week in Karachi, a city located just two hours by plane from primary nesting places for Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The event was rescheduled twice amid fears of militant violence. Because of security concerns, no foreign buyers or designers were invited. But sometimes when you feel like wallowing, scared in isolation, the best thing to do is get out there and have fun with pretty new clothes and a few friends. So organizers soldiered on to show the world that, despite the violence all around them, they can and will have fashion beyond burqas and go about life as usual.

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