Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

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Fashion students in Mexico design ‘Narco Wear’

About 200 fashion design students at Mexico City's IberoAmerican University have opened a show of dozens of dresses and other clothes examining the effects of the drug trade on Mexican culture.

Rhinestones, pistols, spattered blood, skulls and marijuana leaves are prominent among the designs, displayed on mannequins at the school's campus.

Some of the dresses are demure - although there's a party dress with a pistol tucked in a sash. Another dress features the colors of the Mexican flag drenched in . . .

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