The Aesthetes: Expats in Tangier

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Seven expats tell seven journeys which led them to Tangier.
Colourful, chaotic, exuberant, eccentric, artistic, intellectual are the adjectives which link them all. Of course they were preceded by many others - Matisse, Delacroix, Yves Saint Laurent, Mark Twain - who were intoxicated by the place.

The following quote gives a glimpse of the lives of those who live there:

"I stepped into the church where I knew I would find today’s versions: the people who came and never left. A cornerstone of art and fashion is that some people believe what they see and others see what they believe. Tangier is filled with the latter group and inside the church they were kneeling.

A Swiss gentleman appeared to be wearing an entire mile of green cashmere dripping from his shoulders. A Frenchman with a head like Flaubert seemed amused in a multitude of plaid. As Gibbs generously walked down the aisle to offer the locals — each of them — the sign of peace, an Australian gentleman in beautiful brogues turned to the handshaking priest and whispered, “Brian, there’s 10 years off you with that new haircut.”

The full article can be read here:
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/the-aesthetes/

This video is from New York Times T Magazine.

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"She fell through the cracks. And into a world of beauty."

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