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An audio slideshow with Bill Cunningham, NY Times photographer, On the Street: City of Sights.

"Forget April in Paris. Autumn is exciting, with the Eiffel Tower bathed in blue and stylish women everywhere."

The designers showed their collections last week in Paris and, as usual, there is beauty and inspiration everywhere!

When I arrived in Paris, suddenly it struck me, My heavens! It's exactly like the arrival of my first trip there in 1950 or was it  '49? The streets are once again filled with bicycles. Everyone has taken to the bike.

And the important message is the one-piece dress...

I'm mostly interested in the bicycles on the streets of Paris. Is it true what Cunningham observed? Has everyone taken to the bike in Paris?

by Magnifico on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 09:18:46 PM EST
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Bicycles are everywhere so lets design clothing for women that makes it impossible for them to ride a bicycle.

I don't 'get' fashion.

by ATinNM on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 02:45:16 PM EST
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I think it may be connected to the quote often attributed to Margret Thatcher that "A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure." Maybe A woman who beyond the age of 26 who finds herself on a bike may count themselves a fasionable failure.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 02:51:23 PM EST
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To answer your question, well, Paris is not Amsterdam, by some distance.
But bicycles have become far more visible -even when they are not used, since "vélib'" stations are everywhere. And, for sure, there is an increasing number of people riding them.

I am very often one of them and hope that one day most of the centre of the city will have no cars (with caveats for ambulances, fire brigade and the likes), just bicycles and pedestrians.

"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. - Galbraith"

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 03:17:44 PM EST
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