For the average visiting firang, South East Asian fashion is a multi-faceted plethora of cheap, knock off designer labels; last seasons Ralph Lauren shirts, inexpensive Diesel jeans and well-tailored, but none the less cheap, business suits. An excuse to stock up on fake designer labels at market prices.
But delving a little deeper into the clothing that is designed and manufactured in South East Asia, reveals there is a lot more to the fashion there than the assumed backwards approach of copying European and American brands.