You have togo and research, you have to goandcheck outbands, you have to go and readinterviews, you have to goand talk topeople…there's NO other way to understandthisculture.
Perhaps you heard last fashion week about the no-men-allowed club where pretty young things go to check email, eat pizza and get massaged between runway shows?
In places like the Philippine island of Boracay, the transformation is well under way, so I head first to Bacuit Bay, to check out a diminishing rarity: a self-proclaimed tropical paradise that contains no go-kart tracks or daiquiri stands or much of anything but wild animals, water and sand.