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"paris is the breeding ground of fashion at all levels," she said. "whether it is belgian designers out in the burbs putting on cool shows, bourgeois ladies putting on the chic for chantilly races, or those couture seamstresses with their gossamer handstitching. it's the taxi-driver thing: the london cabbies care about sport; the new york cabs care how many blocks you are going, and the parisian taxi-drivers care about how john galliano is doing at dior.
[words learned through reading this article: louche, febrile]
- john seabrook, "a samurai in paris," the new yorker 17 march 2003
posted March 31, 2003 in art, print. 20042002