Hundreds of people fill the park on a Thursday evening, the start of the Muslim weekend, listening to a local pop band and watching it on Bachary's jumbo TV screen.
"The way I see flowers in relation to Dior is the way you see black in relation to Yohji Yamamoto, " says Simons onthe phone from his car one evening, traveling from his home in Antwerp back to Paris after a long Easter weekend.