Venezuelan fashion house stitches body bags for quake victims

MARACAY, Venezuela – Seamstresses at Venezuelan fashion label By Efrain Mogollon are used to making colourful dresses with ruffled sleeves and elegant draped skirts, but these days they face a grim task: making body bags for thousands of quake victims.They never thought they would be making something so morbid, but like other Venezuelan operations, their workshop has shifted priorities following the 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that struck on June 24.With over 4,700 people killed and an estimated 50,000 missing, body bags are in short supply.Designer Efrain Mogollon could not stand by and do nothing.Within a week of the quakes, he mobilised his 22-strong team in the north-central city of Maracay.“We were basically in a state of shock,” the 44-year-old told AFP in the worst-hit state