Goethe Institute fashion show

Went to a fashion show at the Townside Gallery downtown last week with a couple of friends. Students from the German University of Cairo were displaying their semester projects. The night was hosted by the Goethe Institute, the German Embassy in Cairo's cultural center. It was a fun evening—and especially fun to see the Egyptians going absolutely bonkers over the models and their outfits. Some of the outfits were really cool, others were pretty bad. The theme was apparently Africa chic, sort of like that recent ad campaign by a major fashion designer to appropriate the "fashion" of the untouchable caste in India for global retail sale.