Bulletproof Fashion

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There are times in life when you simply want to look good. And then there are times when you want to look good while being protected from a hail of bullets shot at you by the Medellín cartel.

 
Enter Miguel Caballero, who produces a range of what he calls ‘high security fashion’ – everything from a sporty outdoor jacket that will protect you from small arms fire to a polo shirt that will deflect bullets from a Mini Uzi. Even a .44 Magnum stands no chance against the bulletproof neckties out of Caballero’s factory. He is the Armani of bulletproof clothes.

Begun in 1992 in response to ‘demand from the security market’ (presumably, specifically, the metrosexual contingent of the security market’), the label has gone from strength to strength – in 2006 opening its first retail store in Mexico City, and this year forming an alliance with British megastore Harrods to commercialise throughout Russia and the Middle East.

VIP clients of Miguel Caballero include Stephen Segal (who, according to the website, is a musician as well as martial arts expert), the bespectacled president of Colombia Alvaro Uribe. Even Hugo “like like Castro” Chávez has been spotted modelling a pair of Caballero slacks.