I really enjoyed the NYT's story on Lille's renewal yesterday. The city has commanded a fair share of attention and ink over the last few years in Europe. The "Surfacing" rubric, under which the Lille article was classified, made me fear a tardy introduction to the city's charms. My fears went unmet. Seth Sherwood's piece yesterday comments on the initiative to lure fashion designers to Lille and nearby Roubaix.
With the Eurostar transporting passengers to Paris in just over an hour and to London in hour and forty minutes, it's occurred to me more than once that the city could have a turn as a half-way staging point—perhaps a place for time-starved execs from the two cities to meet over a waterzoï, or for freelancing creatives on a joint assignment to know each other over some of those distinctive area beers. In any case, the city's got enough people, grit, and quirky regional particularity to continue to rise.
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