We were really hoping those Somalian Pirates had some fierce fashion sense but they're really not that inspiring...
So instead, we'll talk about the Nigerian 'Hyena Men'. The Hyena Men are a group of gypsys that travel around Nigeria with tamed hyenas, baboons and snakes with the purpose of entertaining street crowds. It's a tradition that these people have been passed down through generations. Photographer Pieter Hugo took extrordinary portraits of them and released the book The Hyena & Other Men published by Prestel in 2007. The photographs are disturbing as they deal with violence, poverty and wild animals in a very muted, quiet kind of way. Everything from the colour palette of their surroundings, to their sandals, to the hyenas' spots is very fashion inspiring.
