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• Another LV Addict

  
  STYLITES IN BEIJING — Authority: 121
  One problem with the LV handbag – as ubiquitous a part of the Chinese urban landscape as Sichuan Restaurants and taxicabs – is how it overshadows the rest of any outfit.  Attention is drawn immediately to the handbag rather than to anything else the person is doing fashion-wise.  Of course that is the goal.  ...
  6 days ago

• A Tasteful Saddlebag

  
  STYLITES IN BEIJING — Authority: 121
  What an elegant way to transport objects! I wonder which social class these guys are from.  Of course there are many other – not necessarily difficult to attain – ways of projecting refinement: a vintage vehicle , an Oldsmobile , and the car seat car covers .  I have been trying to find cotton fabric to make ...
  1 week ago

• Slogans from the demolition zone

  
  China Hope Live — Authority: 126
  Went back recently to Tianjin’s old Nanshi hutongs to see what (if anything) was left, and found some slogans. A few months before the 2008 Olympics everyone was moved out and the partially demolished city blocks wrapped in high, long walls of billboards. The walls are still there, but inside it’s mostly flat and ...
  4 weeks ago

• In the Shade of Snowy Willows

  
  STYLITES IN BEIJING — Authority: 121
  Never before have I taken a photo on Liuyin Street (柳荫街), right around the corner from my home.  This, perhaps Beijing’s most attractive street in what was formerly the most noble section of the city, is usually filled with homely tourists, rickshaw drivers, and urban peasants.  Fortunately these elements ...
  4 weeks ago

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