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Vintage boutiques are an integral part of the shopping landscape of big city centres – some, because they are cheap, others, because they're sure to stock the perfect outfit for a bad taste party and then there are those that pay homage to jewels from the past. Located on a side street of Rue Oberkampf, the vintage shop Casablanca offers an unrivalled selection of fashion from the 1930s to 1960s.

If you find a gap in your schedule during Paris Fashion Week, you should drop by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs: until 18 March you can admire work from the productive 40-year career of photographer, illustrator and artist Jean-Paul Goude: in the Goudemalion exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.

Sunday is fashion day: the second Fashion Net Education Center event will be taking place at the Cubic Studios in Düsseldorf.With a wide variety of lectures and collection presentations by guests like Marcus Luft and couture designers Jean Yu and Pim Sukahuta, short fashion films and a special fashion show by Susanne Bikovski the event promises to provide plenty of inspiration for fashion fans.

A textile worker in Bangladesh earns around 30 euros a week for 40 hours work; he pays 32 euros a month to rent his five square metre hut in the slums. For the production of one kilo of textiles, six kilos of chemicals are used – yet one still speaks of environmentally-friendly production. So what’s going wrong?