• Episode 15: Fashion and Prostitution

  • Nov 2 2024
  • Length: 1 min
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Episode 15: Fashion and Prostitution

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  • While you are walking along the canal we would like to give you some more insight into the life of Red Light District. The city as vibrant and lively as Amsterdam is never static, it keeps changing. And Red Light District being a part of it is also changing. A few years ago a then mayor of Amsterdam Job Cohen suggested that this area should host fashion designers as well as prostitutes. Therefore, some windows were closed and given to young, adventurous and fashion forward designers.

    As you walk along Oudezijds Acherburgwal you will see small fashion shops right next to the windows with girls. Designers are positive that such close vicinity benefits both parties and adds to the image of the city as a whole. Moreover, historically this area was also inhabited by weavers and tailors, so this close neighboring would not be foreign.

    Amsterdam indeed is the city with an edge where new style fashion adjoins the old style prostitution windows as mannequins stand side by side with prostitutes. Please continue your walk along the canal.

    Photo Erotica by Emilio Labrador is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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