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17 November, 2025

Paris Fashion Week with My New Crush: a Pre-War Leica

By David Pauley

People-watching is one of the joys of urban life, perhaps nowhere more than in Paris, a city that I love but visit rarely. Quite by chance a recent trip unfolded during the autu...

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