Pervasive Sameness

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In a previous post, I complained about globalized fashion producing the same, boring, classless, tasteless, shapeless garments for the .01% regardless of the ostensible home-country of the label. But this blanding the world with on brand isn’t limited to clothing labels. At several certain class tiers, one can expect to find the exact same experience ‘round the world.

  • There’s a Shakespeare and Company in Paris and New York
  • There are Pret à Mangers all over Manhattan, Paris, and London
  • Virginia’s “Five Guys” can be found on Broadway (NYC), all over the South and even across the street from “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
    • …which, itself, is also findable in New York.
  • New York’s Shake Shack can be found in London or Jeddah

Denmark’s Joe and the Juice looks like this on Broadway, by my house (with Byron):

Upper West Side, with Byron

Upper West Side, with Byron

and looks like this in SoHo:

In London

In London