Charlet heads to NYC to hang with the most bootylicious big girls at the world's only Full Figured Fashion Week. Long gone are the days where the fuller figured woman is restricted to nylon tracksuits from the back of Wal-Mart. Couture just went XXXL.
Charlet arrives in Phnom Penh and heads to the first show of Cambodia's innagural fashion week, where some models hit the runway "acting stoned." It's followed (naturally) by a tranny-zombie after party. Charlet then meets Phen Chou, a factory worker who was beaten by the police when she led protests for garment factory workers' rights.
In the season finale of Fashion Week Internationale, while taking part in the the butt shaking, catwalks, yachts, and glamour of Fashion Week in Lagos, VICE also gets a better understanding of what it's like to be gay in a notoriously homophobic society - where same sex marriage is criminalized yet the fashionistas still claim that to get to the top in Nigerian society, you have to be gay.
Following the Euromaidan protests, Charlet heads to Kiev to see what Ukrainian Fashion Week has to offer. The capital is still reeling from months of revolutionary turmoil which has only started to die down days before the fashion week is scheduled to take place. Ukraine's fashion industry has grown rapidly in recent years. Despite the seriously unstable security situation which means many high profile attendees have cancelled their visit, fashion week organisers insist on going ahead with a unique, post-apocalyptic event which simultaneously confronts and buries the troubles.
VICE heads to Colombia for a week of fashion, cocaine and plastic surgery. Formerly the old stomping ground of Pablo Escobar, the city is now trying to throw off its powdery legacy and push fashion up the noses of the world. Charlet, your host, goes to two rival fashion weeks running simultaneously and is presented with two very different ideas about what Colombian beauty is.
Charlet delves into the Las Vegas International Lingerie trade show, where sexy lingerie seems to have been overrun by dildos, lube, and chocolate vaginas. She then heads to a training session with Vegas Sin, Las Vegas' all-girl team in the lingerie football league. Then we go to Strings, the No. 1 provider of g-strings in the state. Charlet hears how "nothing that covers up too much sells anymore" and sees how to make a g-string in 60 seconds. Then it's on to the final show, which turns out to be more of an elaborate striptease than a fashion show. After getting kicked out for the unlikely reason of making the girls uncomfortable backstage, Charlet flees to the desert to wash away the sins of Vegas in the hot springs of Death Valley.
Fashion Week Internationale lands in Seoul, the technology and entertainment capital of East Asia. Charlet tries and fails to understand why people there shop at 4 AM, gets a makeover on the subway, and meets Donald King, the loneliest punk in the world.
Charlet touches down in Kingston, Jamaica and gains an audience with Elephant Man, aka The Energy God, to find out why the dancehall girls cause the local men so many problems. She then explores the illegal and dangerous skin bleaching trend.
Charlet heads to the sexiest city in the world for Fashion Week and, taking the advice of 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger, goes hunting for ass. She plays "spot the transsexual model" backstage at the shows, and after a spot of kerb crawling in the VICE bang bus, she befriends a 19-year-old transgender prostitute and finds out the "ins and outs" of her job.
The CEO of Urban Fashion Week, Billy Bad Ass, holds a casting call to recruit a model to take to London Urban Fashion Week. He reduces one model to tears and introduces us to the first and only black female NASCAR driver.
In 2013 Israel became the first country in the world to pass legislation banning 'underweight' models. Mere weeks before the law passed, the first Tel Aviv fashion week in 30 years featured typically waifish high-fashion models. Charlet caught a show by Italian giant Moschino just in time for the first rockets to rain down on Tel aviv from Gaza in over 20 years...