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Seems like the city is really shooting itself in the foot with all the closures. It's what the tourists come for, not some fancy artsy fartsy fashion store.
There seem to be less 'fashion windows' than there were a few years back (?) .... I think most of them were a temporary thing before the windows got converted into other businesses...
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From September 2008 to the end of 2010, the former window brothels on the Oudekerksplein and the
Oudezijds Achterburgwal were home to Red Light Design and Red Light Fashion. This initiative by HTNK and Droog Design attracted worldwide press attention. Several of the designers have established themselves permanently in the area.
That's from the Project 1012 PDF linked in this thread on a similar topic -
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Glad that I got to enjoy Amsterdam in the golden age of the 1980's & 1990's, before the extremes of political correctness & Islam fucked everything up.
The wikipedia article on
Prostitution in the Netherlands gives an interesting perspective on the political background behind the window closures. I do think there is an element of "political correctness" at work here although thankfully it's not gone as far as the
Swedish Model. Behind a lot of this is the basic assumption that a woman will not become a prostitute without being forced into it, giving a distorted view of the RLD.
Did I mention Swedish Models? This is more like it -
Bikini Catwalk / Sweden's Next Top Model