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Fellow British aid worker Alistaire Hoad provides a mobile phone charging service and plans to roll out free wifi coverage across the entire Jungle area in the New Year.Īlongside him is another Briton, student Richard Thanki, who has set up a popular 4G network. The dome-shaped tent was erected by two British activists, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, and named the Good Chance Theatre. In one corner of the site, about 50 blue tents, conspicuous by their neat exteriors and sense of orderliness, stand in six neat rows - erected as part of efforts by the French government to improve conditions. An estimated 4,500 people are living in the Jungle. Police have been hit by rocks in the clashes. Groups of migrants, guided by people-smuggling gangs and left-wing activists, try to stop lorries and cars heading for the UK in the hope of stowing away on them.īook shop: A book shop (wittily named Jungle Books, presumably after the Rudyard Kipling tale) provides English and French classesĪccording to a security guard at a nearby factory, it is ‘guerilla warfare’. At 1am, ‘the intifada’, as the locals call it, swings into action. A Mauretanian artist, Alpha, has set up a sculpture garden.ĭespite the superficially easy-going atmosphere, at night the mood becomes sinister and there are serious concerns of infiltration by British Islamic militants posing as humanitarian workers. Within the Market area, there are a number of restaurants - predominately Kurdish, Eritrean and Afghan - and convenience shops selling food and cigarettes. Men sit at tables and play dominoes while others play table football. For children, there’s a playground with wooden climbing frames.Įvery Saturday, there is a ‘beauty day’ in a makeshift building, with massages and other treatments available. After all, Flying Roof might sound like a kind of kooky name for your fashion line, but Toit Volant? Now we’re talking.Īhead, get to know-and shop-ten of our favorite faux-French brands in fashion right now.Art gallery: A man holds a picture of 'England' in the camp's art gallery, perhaps as a homage to the final destination many migrants are hoping to get toĪlmost every need is catered for as charities supply hot meals and build wooden shacks, and human rights lawyers offer advice on asylum. (That said, Vetements, a Paris-based brand, also dropped the circumflex in their name from the original French vêtements, which means clothing.)įashionista investigated this naming phenomenon last year, and-perhaps unsurprisingly-found that most labels choose Gallic-sounding names for the caché they’re thought to lend to the brand. One of them, Loéil, an e-commerce shop that’s become an editor favorite in recent months, sounds French enough-like trompe-l’œil, right? But the lack of apostrophe, as well as the fact that the website URL-would translate to “the the eye” in French, was a pretty strong tip-off to the fact that no, they are in fact based in Korea. MORE: The 50 Best Shopping Sites for Girls on a Budget While the phenomenon is hardly new-Comme des Garçons, for one, is based in Tokyo-this year seemed to be an especially big one for indie brands with faux-French roots. Like their style, their food, and their laissez-faire attitude toward life and fitness, French names are a quality the rest of the world can’t seem to help but covet, and there’s nothing preventing a non-French brand from adopting one-which can be a little confusing, even for those of us who do this for a living.
L’Oéil, Réalisation, Totême, Marais … parlez-vous Français? Even if you don’t, you’d be forgiven for thinking we just rattled off a list of French brands-but non! Not one of the aforementioned fashion labels hails from the land of croissants and Christian Dior.
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