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By Aamir Mannan.

Colombia's second most famous export is, arguably, its 'naturally' beautiful women.

But a behind-the-scenes look at Colombia fashion week reveals the Colombian obsession with plastic 

surgery and the dubious trend of 'narco beauty.'

The documentary is the latest installment in the Fashion Week Internationale series, and far from the westernised stereotypes at much-hyped New York, London, Paris and Milan fashion weeks, the Vice series explores the oddities of some of the world's lesser-known fashion events.

All the ladies: While Medellin's Colombia Moda fashion week veers towards thinner models, an alternative fashion week is all about showing off the city's trend of plastic surgery +8

All the ladies: While Medellin's Colombia Moda fashion week veers towards thinner models, an alternative fashion week is all about showing off the city's trend of plastic surgery

And Medellin's fashion showcases are far from usual.

Model and presenter Charlet Duboc contrasts the less traditional and more international - if a little classist - Colombia Moda fashion week with the city's alternative, more accessible fashion event, Moda Para El Mundo.

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While models at fashion week proper have a 'matured' look - tall, skinny girls with high cheekbones and ethereal beauty, shunning the fuller figures of which the country is so proud - some aspects of the week are stuck in something of a culture warp, with one runway decorated with a vast mountain of fake cocaine.

An underwear show sees bright bikinis leaving little to the imagination of models' perfect, though often far-from-natural, bodies.

Shake that ass: Colombian fashion week shows seem to be rather more about the bodies wearing the clothes than the designs themselves +8

Shake that ass: Colombian fashion week shows seem to be rather more about the bodies wearing the clothes than the designs themselves

Cocaine: The more upmarket Colombia Moda fashion week shuns fuller Latina curves for a thinner, westernised aesthetic, but oddly chooses to pile a mountain of fake cocaine on one of its runways +8

Cocaine: The more upmarket Colombia Moda fashion week shuns fuller Latina curves for a thinner, westernised aesthetic, but oddly chooses to pile a mountain of fake cocaine on one of its runways

A trade show attached to Colombia Moda is, in the words of Ms Duboc, 'more high street than high fashion,' bursting with bootylicious bottoms, curvaceous figures, impossibly bouncy breasts, bronzen skin and white teeth.

Plastic surgery is clearly the norm, if not openly spoken about. One underwear model patently lies, claiming her figure is 100 per cent natural.

Over at the main fashion week's competitor, Moda Para El Mundo, the focus is even less on fashion and more on bling and booties.

An incredulous Ms Duboc clearly has a hard time focusing, surrounded by glutes of epic proportions.

'People's arses are such a massive distraction from anything else,' she says. 'It's kind of impossible to talk about anything else. It's just ridiculous.'