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December 03, 2006
Sunday
 
 
London in winter
Guy Herbert (London)  Sui Generis
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This cheerful seasonal scene, complete with 9-foot inflatable Santa, is brought to you from the Beckham Salon, Crawford Street, W1. This small Arab hairdresser's shop is normally merely a shrine (verging on homoerotic, to my eye) to the most carefully coiffed man in international soccer, and hangout for young men whose hair is almost as insanely tidy as their hero's.

But this time of year it sprouts, with utter disregard for the cultural apartheid strangers suppose to operate in Marble Arch - and danger to low-flying aircraft - the most fabulously gaudy Christmas decorations.

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Is it the Arab, the shop, or the shrine that is small?


Posted by Monty at December 3, 2006 09:44 PM

Compared to a nine-foot Santa, probably all of them.


Posted by Mike at December 3, 2006 10:14 PM

The day after tomorrow it's also Sinterklaas. This year for the first time there were yellow en purple 'Black Peters' on national tv. Apparently (so we were told) Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet sailed through a rainbow. Although I am not sure I completely believe this. It sounds a bit doctored.


Posted by David Amon at December 3, 2006 10:45 PM

It sounds like your Arab businessman has decided to emphasize the 'business'. Good for him.


Posted by bjbarron at December 3, 2006 10:48 PM

I suspect his clientele doesn't change by it and it's just he likes dressing up the shop.


Posted by guy herbert at December 4, 2006 06:36 AM
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