In preparation of this day, Ateliers deMonaco, the independent watch brand based in the principality, has created its first watch for ladies: La Sirene.

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Trois des ateliers ciblaient en particulier les femmes journalistes.

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When the economy allowed for retirement at the relatively young age of 65, some of these people jumped at the opportunity to change course, to go from boardrooms to ateliers, to move from the service professions to the field of craftsmen, musicians or community volunteers.

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As artists and students have been gradually priced out of traditional inner-city areas such as Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg, this southwesterly district has become a haven for the annual hordes of newcomers seeking refuge in its relatively cheap rents, transformed ateliers and bars and burgeoning creative community.

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This is the exhibition's point of greatest concentration, a fascinating sort of before and after, where the befores are seat-of-the-pants, coarsely done as if in the den or the dark, and the afters are refined appropriation, executed in ateliers of bright light and even brighter technique labels like Yohji Yamamoto, Alexander McQueen, Burberry and Balmain.

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