Models getting ready for Dabo’s show backstage. Dabo is a self-taught designer from Gambia who’s ‘never heard of Vogue’ and had not tried his dresses on any models beforehand. They stole the show. Many fashion weeks take place all year round in Nigeria, but this is the official government-sanctioned event Photograph: Rhys James/Vice Media Inc
Don King, one of the very few punks in South Korea, perfects a cut-throat style on a model backstage during Seoul fashion week Photograph: Rhys James/Vice Media Inc
Camaraderie backstage among the male models. This was the first-ever fashion week in Islamabad, and none of these boys had set foot on a catwalk before Photograph: William Fairman/Vice Media Inc
A young woman adjusts her headdress before taking to the catwalk at a lingerie show featuring some healthily curvaceous models at Colombia fashion week. The show reflected the colour and energy of a local fiesta Photograph: William Fairman/Vice Media Inc
The front row doubles as a dance floor. Dancehall superstar Konshens took to the catwalk to entertain the guests, who mobbed him in return Photograph: William Fairman/Vice Media Inc
Backstage at the country’s first-ever fashion week, models were adorned in traditional Cambodian garb, a far cry from the most common look in the streets of Phnom Penh: wearing your pyjamas in public Photograph: William Fairman/Vice
While Rio fashion week was underway across town, aspiring young models perfected their poses at a modelling school high up on the rooftops in the heart of the city’s largest favela, Rocinha, where they live Photograph: William Fairman/Vice Media Inc
