A breath of fresh air and taste in tastless, grey, mud and black-clad Paris…read more
Contrary to the popular impression, Paris is not the fashion capital of the world, nor it has been its capital for as long as I can remember myself here, meaning - for the past 20 years.
Paris is the capital of cold, calculating men stamped out of the molds of the great Engineering and Political Science schools, populating traditional, cold and tasteless cafés and dating cold and dried out women. For taste in fashion, interior decoration and cuisine - look for foreigners.
The opening of Uniqlo stores provided a temporary relief against the ugly environment, and I hope it is here to stay, and resist the onslaught of the nameless french void, for my own sake.