Just off the downtown shopping arcade, Clis Road, in the Chuo district are a collection of upscale urban boutiques.  Most of them are operated by young fashion conscious boys and girls, steeped in hiphop culture with dreams of making and selling their own styles.  There’s a problem though.  They’re all the same.  The clothes look the same, the layouts of the stores are the same, the music pumping through the speakers are the same… you get the picture.

There’s another thing that all these shops have in common.  They’re always empty.

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