It is the antithesis of a boutique displaying luxury goods.
People are angling for new jobs at hedge funds, corporate Buyout shops, boutique Banks and startups.
But its smattering of boutique hotels and passable restaurants stayed largely empty.
"One wild boar entered a boutique, scaring the daylights out of a saleswoman," local police said in a statement.
Jewelry designer Jeanine Payer was showing her wares in a boutique in Portland, Ore., recently when a woman approached her.
When we left the boutique, she was all smiles, overjoyed with the fancy shopping bag in her hand.
"I wanted to do something for my country," she says. She worked for the Ministry of Finance setting up budgets; and ran a boutique hotel.
The firm is less a boutique and more a pocket battleship, with a leading position in capital-raising and dealing in shares and bonds.
And just this month, the products that the Parisian boutique Colette produced with Gap sold like hot croissants in New York.
The Best Fashion Street "should offer an eclectic mix of boutique and high street, designer and high street for all clothing tastes and ages.
The boutique expresses a world of luxury, importance and elegance as originally but through a design language that is more approachable, lightly enjoyable, and bright and unbelievably etiquette.
The road is, at first, filled with quaint boutique shops and young couples and friends, but as it advances uphill they give way to small cottage homes and kids playing ball in the street.
It's a rooftop bar at the boutique Emperor Hotel that opened a few months ago just outside the east gate of the Forbidden City, a stone's throw from the moat.
