Congo fashion gangs!

Lots of US papers (and a couple of SA ones) seem to have picked up the story on Congolese fashionistas obsessing over luxury labels. Crazy huh, you'd think with having Ebola, being attacked by killer Giraffes, all the volcano's and tribal warfare they'd have time to go shopping. Apparently it's not just as simple as pulling on a pair of Gucci loafers you have to belong to a "sape" gang or something and have fashion face offs with rival gangs. "It's Zoolander meets West Side Story, where the gangs sport labels but not knives," says the breathless Houston chronicle. Right.