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Fashion Week Tunis 2012

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Today we travel 1700 km south-east of Paris to the beautiful town of Carthage for Tunisia Fashion Week. It started four years ago under the rule of Ben Ali and has clung on throughout the Jasmin Revolution and under the transitional government. Our fashion critic Jessica Michault looks at how it has evolved.

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