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...best shopping streets are the main artery, Rue d'Alsace-Lorraine, the pedestrian streets St. Rome/des Changes, Pomme and Filatiers, and the chic Rue Croix-Baragnon. Great artisan pottery at Nature et Sens, Rue Pharaon (tel. +33 (0) 5 61 14 12 37). Violette & Pastel, Rue St. Pantaléon (tel. +33 (0) 5 61 22 14 22), has candies, liqueurs and perfumes made from violets, the city's emblem...
...shame. Toulouse has been a market town since its early days as the Gallo-Roman Tolosa. In the Middle Ages the city was governed by councilors called capitouls, chosen from among the leading merchants. In the 15th century the merchant class grew rich from the international trade in pastel, a blue dye made from the locally grown woad plant, and the newly wealthy began to build the brick mansions that still line almost every central city street. The city's hallmarks are gaiety and gastronomy. At the Place du Salin, remnants of the city's 1st century Roman walls support...
...throwback to 1940s glamour with a modern twist.” And, boy, what a twist. With leopard skin-patterned carpets—except for the zebra-themed Veranda Room—and an explosion of not-quite-clashing pastel colors on the wall, the décor wows even the least fashion-conscious of visitors. I couldn’t help but think that Ray Charles would be distracted from his meal by the restaurant’s appearance, which is equal parts Liberace and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...
...game in which alpha-dog celebrities stay ahead of middle-class consumers, often by mimicking inner-city teenagers and other transgressive subcultures. Madonna's bold use of classic Adidas roused a posse of A-list imitators ranging from Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz to Pink. J. Lo made the pastel Juicy Couture velour sweat suit a must-have item, then started producing...
...full of dots--GTA3 is set in Liberty City, a metropolis as realistic and richly detailed as Dickens' London, with weather that changes hourly and carefully rendered litter tumbling down its meticulously drawn streets. Most video games give you a challenge, like eating all the dots while dodging hungry pastel-colored ghosts. In GTA3, your problems are real-world problems, like parallel parking...