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The chaos theory of Mongolia

I returned to Mongolia 15 years ago after an absence of 13 years, save for the occasional 2-week leave from work, and that time I spent a semester and a half at a local university drinking endless cups of brown, watery 150 Tugrik instant MaCcoffee at the café strangely, or perhaps egotistically, named "In my memory", writing the first and so far the only book that got us into trouble with the local intelligence who apparently had little else to do than to pore through the ramblings of teenagers to catch the tell-tale signs of drug dealery. But I digress. When you visit a country for a short period, be it home or not, you hardly have time to immerse yourself in the spirit of the country and the city and feel the nitty gritty and dirty shiny of it all. So after 13 years, it took me a while to readjust and finally understand what the hometown of my childhood had become.  The most striking, ubiquitous, and inescapable feature was and still, unfortunately, is the traffic. In 2008,

Mongolian fashion Designer Tsolmandakh Munkhuu at Hyeres festival of photography and fashion


Mongolian fashion designer Tsolmandakh Munkhuu picked up the "Public Prize" a month or so ago at the annual Hyeres Festival of Photography and Fashion. I can't find much information on her, apart from few bits and pieces from other blogs: she is 30, apparently graduated from Atelier Chardon Savard, and lives and works in Paris. Nevertheless, it's awesome to see someone getting a break in a creative industry on a world stage. And I just love the detail on those clothes, and the traditional Mongolian looking shoulder parts on the dresses are just superb! And it's all black! BLACK! How can anyone not love it?

Hyeres Festival is run since 1985, and Viktor & Rolf got their break through Hyeres in 1993.

(sourced from http://musingsofbuffyleigh.blogspot.com/2010/05/tsolmandakh-munkhuu.html, http://gunuhaanduguilan.blogspot.com/2010/05/hyeres.html, http://fashionmongolia.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post_09.html)

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