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Butt Implants And Cocaine: Vice Visits Colombia Fashion Week


Vice’s Fashion Week Internationale is one of our favorite web series to date — and this week’s episode does not disappoint. Host Charlet Duboc heads to Medellin to check out what Colombia Fashion Week is all about, where she learns about the changing face of beauty in a city known more for cocaine and plastic surgery than clothes.

As Duboc says:

”If you’re squeamish you might find it challenging to watch through til the end! Colombia’s still struggling to shake off its association with cocaine trafficking and Pablo Escobar. The Colombian “narco-beauty” epidemic is a hangover from this legacy and an example of girls getting carried away with the vanity, which is part of the blueprint of Colombian female identity. But being out there, I’ve never felt ass-envy like it!”

We, too, had some ass envy, until we got to the part where Duboc watched an actual butt implant surgery. Call us wimps, but we’ll keep our derrieres as they are, thank you very much.

Watch the whole episode below:

[VICE.]



  • Anonymous

    Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse, bizarre, contentious, air brushed comes the vernacular from Latin America where a Mastercard tied to the phone number of a plastic surgeon, a knowing wink that a woman is only worth what a plastic surgery can extract out of her and you come to realize that the real show isn’t what goes on the catwalk (is it really ever anymore) but firmly in the ass cheeks of a hopeful 16-year-old who knows she’s a cup size away from making it…

    http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2011/11/welcome-to-colombia-fashion-week-where-butt-implants-blow-and-plastic-surgery-rein-supreme/

  • Fashionfemmefoto

    I understand how prevalent plastic surgery is in Colombia, however, the way the host conducted herself in this episode comes off as condescending towards the Colombian girls. Plastic surgery is just as prevalent on the runways of Victoria’s Secret and other swim & lingerie shows- it’s not just Colombians. She only seemed to be comfortable with the pole dancing girls- with most every one else, she was condescending which undermines her concern.

  • Varbarcol

    It is really a case of study how big can be the ignorance of people who doubt about the natural beauty of colombian’s women. I do not have doubt how beautiful they are. The contry is nice, plenty of good things and kind and warm people that despite what the international press and those who call themselves as culture societies pretend to know and extend their opinion. While that people do not know beyond their borders and just with a visit to a place to see a fashionn runway think it is to know a country their ignorance will comtinue with no cure.

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