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Wear new clothes every week & still save the planet?

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What if you could rent fair-trade clothes here in #Leipzig for every occasion, from job interviews to picnics to house parties? Now you can.

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Store of the future: popping up and tearing down

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Have you got what it takes to design "the store of the future" at the local mall - and perhaps help save the floundering offline retail industry?

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Opinion: Karstadt and the other side of “gentrification”

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Could the demise of the Leipzig Karstadt have been avoided? And does it matter in the current market? A pragmatic view from one of our columnists.

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Afternoon with gourmet booze, stencil and skulls

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"They sold a wide variety of wares, while sharing a theme of craftiness and sustainability rather than mass production. From shoeshine to moonshine, fruity pestos to hand-decorated faux-eggs, coco-charcoal to recycled denim bags, gritty T-shirt art to luscious deli blocks and cuts."

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Personal Shopper: more than a fluff party

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Out on DVD, blu-ray and digital, Personal Shopper will have you wondering what is making those noises you didn't hear before watching it.

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Children’s shops: a Leipzig mum’s picks

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Here in Leipzig, we may be far away from that ideal children's wonderland that exists on social media, but we still have a couple of nicely curated shops around.

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