Is fashion a good reason to visit France?

I'm doing a project for school on the countries, and I have to have three good reasons to visit each country. I have the Eiffel Tower and food as my two other reasons, but I still need a third. Would fashion be a decent reason? Now, you should understand how the project works. My teacher wants us to pick the main tourist attractions, the ones the vast majority of tourists go to. If the tourists were split into three groups, these would be the attractions you would find all of them at, save for a few other people. Would fashion be a main attraction? And don't say that my teacher wouldn't want me to put fashion because it sounds like I care more about fashion that France. We're talking about the general population here. Everyone. I don't want an opinion either. I want facts only. I don't care if you would like to go to France to go shopping and all that, would the general population do that? Thank you, I hope you deserve it.






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I think many people outside of France are very curious to see French culture and people when they visit. Museums like the Louvre(the Mona Lisa is famously housed there), Montparnasse Cemetery, Arc de Triumph, hearing the language, seeing how people live there, conversing with locals, etc.

Shopping or fashion might entice many travelers but it would be very expensive and is limited to fashion enthusiasts.






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Around fashion week many people come for fashion. And shopping in Paris is really great. I am sure some people go to Paris just to go shopping, most people probably come for culture. But people who care about fashion also come to shop.






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OK. I understand what you are asking. You have to differentiate between France and Paris.

Many people from abroad are content just to go to Paris, at least for their first visit, because it is the capital and it is choc-a -bloc with historical and cultural sites. So even French people who live in the provinces will go there to get to see their own capital, and pick the same things as the majority of foreign tourists who come from all over the world. Paris itself is the world's most visited place.

Strictly, speaking food and fashion are not the objectives of most ordinary people who go to Paris though it may be a secondary interest. Those that go for fashion as a reason are usually in the fashion business and they want to see the new collections, but they are a minority. The majority of tourists really go to Paris for is the sights. I have escorted many groups and the most usual places they put on top of their agenda are the following, in no particular order:
The Eiffel Tower
The Louvre
Notre-Dame de Paris
The Sainte-Chapelle
Palais de Versailles
Cimetière du Père Lachaise
Musée d' Orsay
The catacombs
Pompidou centre
The Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Elysées
All this is because they have heard of them as "must sees".
Many opt for a cruise of some sort on the Seine or a tourist bus that drives round Paris so that they can see the most important buildings from the exterior.

They are quite happy to eat a sandwich or a salad at lunch time, and to go to a restaurant that is within their budget in the evening, but the food is only a secondary consideration.

Women who have heard about Parisian style go shopping for clothes, but only in moderation because prices are very high , and often they combine this with sight seeing. Few people will travel exclusively to Paris to buy clothes unless they are extremely rich, or they are fashion buyers for famed outlets abroad.

Restaurants in Paris range from brilliant and extremely expensive to ordinary bistros where the local population goes at lunch time and where standard but not gourmet dishes are served. Many Americans and English people often are not all that keen on elaborate cuisine and flock to the Mc Donald's for instance. Foreigners are curious about the food but do not make it the specific purpose of their visit, unless they are gourmets or foodies, and, again, have money to spend.

When it comes to the rest of France people go for the global experience: a specific region where there are different attractions, depending on their personal interests: medieval towns, cathedrals, castles, prehistoric sites, dolmens, menhirs, caves, abbeys, etc.. or a mixture of these things. They do look at shops but do not go specially for fashion there and are more interested by local made things: artifacts, hand made goods, perfume, etc.. or they may buy the local food specialities like cheese, biscuits, foie gras, etc..
Some regions specialise in specific dishes which are served more than others in that particular region, like bouillabaisse in Provence, buckwheat Crèpes in Brittany, choucroute in Alsace, beef stew in Burgundy etc.. but people would not go to that region just for the food.

What you must also realise is that many people visit France and only go to a specific region, like the Americans would go to the Grand Canyon or a national park and are not particularly drawn by food or fashion.

Many tourists go there just for a specific purpose like a sport: skiing , mountaineering, sailing , paragliding, walking, etc...Some go for a pilgrimage to a shrine, or walk the length of France to go to Compostella in Spain as a challenge, or simply travel to spend time on a beach and "have a good time" (which you think is the reason why a boy got a poor grade for talking about , but which is the truth). Many Americans for instance are not in the least interested by Paris or the main cities in other areas, and simply go to the French Riviera ( Nice , Cannes etc...) because they are fashionable sea side resorts, and many celebrities patronise the area, have their yacht there and go there to meet people of their kind and be seen...Others go to the Atlantic beaches because of the miles of sand and the surfing.
What I am trying to say is that there are hundreds of reasons why people choose France as a holiday destination and for Northern Europeans it may even only be the temperature or the climate!
However if what you want is concentration and the options chosen by the majority of tourists then go for the main sites in Paris that are heaving with visitors all year round.

PS. After laboriously writing all this, I had a second thought and looked on the net.
If what you want is exact statictics, here you go:
http://www.francethisway.com/places/top-…

Since several amusement parks figure in the top visited attractions, this makes my point about what are the reasons behind people's motivations.






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Well, we know who will wear the pants in your family. haha a fashion joke! And the truth. You seem to know the answer to your own question and it is your homework so go with your heart.