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Sacré bleu! Shein is opening its first permanent boutique this Saturday within the historic BHV Marais department store in Paris, a staple of the fashion capital for nearly 170 years. The Nov. 1 opening coincides with La Toussaint (All Saints’ Day), a national holiday commemorating the dead. Fitting, since critics are calling Shein’s arrival the death of French savoir faire. “I came in to say goodbye to the staff,” one shopper told NPR. “The store has sold its soul to the devil.” At least 12 brands, including Talm and Le Slip Français, have recently cut ties with BHV which also reportedly owes outstanding payments to several brands and suppliers. Culture Vintage, a vintage and upcycling label, announced Shein as the reason for their exit on Instagram, “Is it an easy choice financially? No. Is it an obvious choice? YES!” Aime, a beauty brand, also cut ties: “We cannot turn a blind eye. By integrating Shein, BHV is sending a very negative signal to the entire sector,” wrote president Mathilde Lacombe on LinkedIn. “Our collective choices shape the future of our industry.” BHV employees protested against their employer earlier this month and a Change.org petition seeking to block the boutique has racked up over 111K signatures so far. In June, France passed an anti-fast fashion bill designed to make e-retailers like Shein and Temu pay for their environmental damage, literally. The new law could add up to a €10 penalty per online item by 2030, but with brick-and-mortar retail, the company seems to be testing out a loophole. Shein is already planning to expand into five more cities in France, per Bloomberg. In a statement, executive chairman Donald Tang framed the move as a love letter to the country, “By choosing France as the place to trial physical retail, we are honoring its position as a key fashion capital and embracing its spirit of creativity and excellence.” Sure, what else could “honor” the fashion capital like a €3 polyester crop top? #shein #paris #france #bhv #shopping #news #fashion #style #wiwt #ootd #fashionnews #pfw #fastfashion #sheinhaul #haul #clothes #ecommerce #retail #instagood #ig #threads #reels #viral #fyp #dietprada

creates casts and moulds, in particular of organic elements like flowers, in steel, bronze, or concrete by making 3D scans, a high-tech mode of production and representation that severs the objects from any kind of natural order. She plays with enlargement and fragmentation, and her works come with various surface structures - they are often abject, raw, or encrusted. She then combines these moulds and casts with found textiles or industrial building elements as well as her own apparel, choosing items that are especially close to the body to add an intimate scale to the work. The industrially produced elements reference the outer skins of buildings and their systems of evacuation and climatization.
Combining the organic and the technical, Crespo’s art not only reflects on the pressure and destruction wrought on nature by post-industrial production. It is also a process of reparation in terms of fixing fractures between things that did not seem to belong together but that are constructed and reconstructed in an alternative linking prac-tice. The objects let different registers appear together, resembling a dreamlike space where things appear within