For the women of Ethiopia, there is heroine chic

FASHION week - skeletal clothes horses with haunted looks and gazelle-like legs effortlessly gliding. The image is familiar. Leggy women with impeccable posture, cheek bones sharper than Gordon Ramsay's tongue, radiating elegant poise. Where had I seen it recently?

Bizarrely, it was on the road to Bahir Dhar in rural Ethiopia. As thousands of villagers strode the endless track (to call it a road is like calling Primark a Bond Street boutique), it brought to mind catwalk images. No-one in Ethiopia is ugly. No-on...