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Night in Paris, 17 October 2026. A Chanel boutique with its shutter half down and a smashed window, a person climbing through the gap. Nº 16 · Culture What the Looters Took On 17 October, half a million people marched in France against the cost of living. That evening, shops from Céline on the avenue Montaigne to a Célio at Porte Saint Denis were stripped. What was taken, how it was passed around, and why clothes sit at the centre of the anger.

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