The attack, which came at about 9 p.m., struck at a corner of the Moon Market where women crowded rows of garment stands to shop for clothes, witnesses said.
She tries on diplomacy as though it were a garment, stands back, gives it a chance - and nope, she doesn't like it.
That the burkini represents a level of threat such that it must be resisted with armed police reflects how the beliefs around women's bodies for which this garment stands are, rightly or wrongly, perceived as a clear and present danger.
Faces and garments stand out with caricatured clarity from passages of sooty black — there's even a proto-Marilyn moment with a skirt and a subway updraft.
Rising 20 stories above what is now a parking lot, the flaring garment will stand against the Lower Manhattan cityscape as if posing on location for a glossy photo shoot.
Dressed in filmy garments, they stand in the centre of a turquoise sea dotted with deep pink lotuses and lime-green leaves.
The death toll from the collapse of a building in Bangladesh that housed several garment factories now stands at more than 500, with many still missing.
Covered in white makeup, like a Japanese Butoh dancer, and draped in the sprawling garment, Ms. Juillerat stood in the room, unable to move since her dress was fixed to the walls.
The attack, which occurred in the Allama Iqbal section of Lahore, set ready-made garment shops and cloth stands ablaze and cut off power to the market, complicating efforts to find survivors.
That said, it remains to be seen whether the garments or patches would stand up to everyday exposure to moisture, friction and so on.
