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Riddle Me This… Riddle Me That.

FASHION
Mr Caballero’s name is renown in the South African Fashion Industry for his ability to mix high fashion and utility. His latest clothes boosts styles that can “withstand shots from 9mm pistols to AK-47s and clients fearing knives can pay extra for stab-proofing” and also remain fashionable. His clothing line will include “suits, suede and leather jackets, raincoats, shirts, vests and denim ware for both men and women.”

SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa is popular for her beautiful touristy sites as well as notorious for her high crime rates. I believe it might be safe to hypothesize that his muse for the creation of this line might be the high crime rates within South Africa, his need to protect people and of course, the huge financial gain that can be gotten from his line.

THE RIDDLE
This clothing line is not for the poor, as per Mr. Ari Ben David ( A South African Business Man that will be opening up a showroom selling these clothes), this clothes are “out of reach for the ordinary person”". Now, my questions are: considering a lot of the super rich who can afford these clothes walk around with some form of security and most violent crimes occur in poor neighborhoods where gangs
and other forms of atrocities exists – who will be protecting the economically disenfranchised?

Second questions is the creation of this clothing line an admittance that there is a problem?

Third question: how does this work psychologically within South Africa, wouldn’t this create a system in which a group of people might feel invincible and free to do what they will and by so doing create some form of resentment amongst South Africans of a lower economic class?

Fourth questions: Isn’t this fashion line inherently classists?

Fifth question: Won’t this be introducing a new kind of crime, something very similar to the American mob system, because there seems to be no control as to who can gain access to the clothing line? The only control factor there seems to be is money.

So riddle me this or you can riddle me that..will you be buying into this line, why or why not?

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Posted by on August 15, 2008. Filed under Entertainment,Lifestyle. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.