VICE's Charlet Duboc took a trip down South American way to attend Colombia Fashion Week in Medellin -- formerly the stomping grounds of drug czar, Pablo Escobar --  in the third installment of the mag's unconventional documentary series, Fashion Week Internationale.  There, she found a startling contrast between the country's coked-up past and its bid to be taken seriously as a fashion capital. Whereas the models of Columbia Moda were the usual breed of leggy, thin, Anglo catwalker seen in Milan, London, Paris and New York; at a separate fashion week, Columbia para el Mundo, booty was king.

Colombian women of all ages seek out the coveted hourglass figure of the Latina bombshell, in hopes of a better life and a better sense of self. Butt, at what cost? While gluteoplasty -- i.e. butt implants -- cost about a third of what they would in the U.S., some women risk everything, even their lives, in the pursuit of gluteal perfection. Duboc witnesses one of these surgeries for herself when a rather ravishing 45-year-old woman goes under the knife.  "If you're squeamish you might find it challenging to watch through til the end!" Duboc warns, and it really is harrowing/disgusting/vomit-inducing watching a doctor gingerly shove a piece of plastic into a sedated butt cheek. After all was said and done, however, Duboc admitted to feeling a bit of "ass-envy."

Check out the first part of the doc below and check out Vice.com for more Fashion Week Internationale!