From Reuters: "Afghanistan gets first fashion show in decades"

KABUL - Models strode down a catwalk in the Afghan capital Kabul for the first time in decades this weekend as two designers showed off their clothes behind the guarded walls of a luxury hotel.

An audience of expatriates and well-heeled Afghan watched the show in hotel garden, under a clear midsummer night’s sky, to the strains of traditional Afghan music.

All of the models showing the conservatively cut clothes that included designer burqas were expatriate women, to the disappointment of some in the audience.

The organisers said they did not want to court controversy in what is a deeply conservative Muslim country by having Afghan models.

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Sherzad said people used to hold small fashion shows in Kabul before the war begin in the late 1970s. 

These days there was a market for fashion in the city, although it may not be obvious, she said.

“There’s not much in terms of the fashion we see in the West but there is fashion within a private environment, within the houses,” she said.

“People like to be fashionable.”