August 2011
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The city: Beijing
By Ai Weiwei, The Daily Beast, 28 August 2011
Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is one of desperation. I see people on public buses, and I see their eyes, and I see they hold no hope. They can’t even imagine that they’ll be able to buy a house. They come from very poor villages where they’ve never...
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“Something this and the Alaia interview have had me thinking about is this term that we use - ‘fast fashion.’ What does it really mean? We seem use it describe Uniqlo, Topshop, All Saints, H&M, and others when their business practices, target markets and aesthetics are pretty disparate. As a result, the term ‘fast fashion’ seem like more of a pejorative term...
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