Guest post by tf
The will to exoticize is often flagrant in Paris. This is a window display from an agency of a large French travel chain:
It seems to me one part Josephine Baker, whose 1926 banana dance remains a popular image here, and one part sorceress, from the popular 1998 animated film Kirikou and the Sorceress by Michel Ocelot.
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