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ORBISFASHION HOUSES & BOUTIQUES IN HAMBURG14 stores · curated ORBIS register
All My Friends - Kreativkaufhaus carries handmade and fair-trade fashion from small businesses in Schanzenviertel, with accessories alongside its clothing selection. Alsterhaus spreads fashion and other departments across five floors, occupying the building opened for Hermann Tietz in 1912. Schnelsen's Buddel-Bini adds maritime clothing to its ship-in-bottle workshop and souvenir shop, with online orders also available.
Schanzenviertel / Online
All My Friends - Kreativkaufhaus in Hamburg — Handmade and fair trade items from small businesses including fashion, accessories and unique gifts in Schanzenviertel.
Best for Handmade and fair trade items from small businesses including fashion
Neustadt, Hamburg
A historic department store selling fashion, beauty products, accessories, homeware, and gourmet food across five floors. The building opened in 1912 as the Hermann Tietz department store and was renamed Alsterhaus in the 1930s.
Best for Fashion, beauty, and gourmet food across five floors of the 1912 Hermann
Hamburg-Schnelsen
This Hamburg maker builds ship-in-bottle displays in its own workshop and stocks maritime clothing, flags and city souvenirs. It sells from a shop at Meddenwarf in Schnelsen and online, with pickup available.
Best for Ship-in-bottle and maritime gifts
Hamburg / Online
German denim and casualwear brand — founded in 1978, known for Italian-fabric jeans, relaxed tailoring, and understated European style.
Best for Italian-fabric denim and relaxed tailoring
Hamburg
A workshop shop creating and selling clothing, accessories, and fragrance with political themes.
Best for Hamburg-made clothing and small-batch accessories
Sternschanze
Human Empire Shop grew from a Hamburg design studio that used part of its workspace to exhibit and sell its work. Its catalogue now combines prints and illustration with stationery and home accessories. Products from other designers and small labels sit alongside the studio's own graphic work.
Best for Illustrated prints, stationery and design-led home gifts
Human Empire Shop grew out of a Hamburg design studio's search for working space. Jan, Wiebke and Malte found a former shop that could serve as both an office and a place to show the things they designed. Records and printed work for the music label Morr Music were among the early reasons to create a public-facing space.
As goods from other designers and small labels arrived, the retail area grew. The studio eventually moved into nearby offices, giving the shop more room. That history explains why graphic work remains part of a range that now extends into everyday objects for the home.
The current catalogue includes prints and illustrated products as well as stationery and books alongside home accessories. Frames and poster rails provide ways to display the graphic work, while cards offer a smaller purchase. For an artwork, check the dimensions and whether a frame is included before choosing it. The shop's own design background does not mean it manufactures every item in the assortment; work from other makers remains part of the offer.
Eppendorf, Hamburg
Owner-operated menswear store on Eppendorfer Baum in Hamburg's Eppendorf district, trading since 1999 with tailored clothing, casualwear, shirts and shoes from labels including PS Paul Smith, Superdry and Belstaff.
Best for Tailored clothing, casualwear, shirts, and shoes for men
JF Flebbe Mannermode has operated as an independent, owner-run menswear shop at Eppendorfer Baum 7 in Hamburg's Eppendorf/Harvestehude area since 1999, making it one of the longer-standing owner-operated clothing retailers in the neighborhood. The store curates a selection of international menswear labels - including PS Paul Smith, Superdry and Belstaff among others - alongside suiting names such as Boss and Hugo, covering tailored clothing, casualwear, shirts, shoes and accessories. It positions itself around personal fashion consultation and a curated, changing edit of brands rather than operating as a single-label store. The shop keeps standard weekday and Saturday retail hours.
Hamburg / Online
German lifestyle brand — from fragrances to fashion, classic menswear with a modern twist. A household name in German-speaking Europe.
Best for Classic German lifestyle fashion
Hamm, Hamburg
A textile specialist selling clothing, decoration, couture, organic cotton, silk, and cashmere fabrics. The shop occupies approximately 400 square metres in a former factory.
Best for Textile specialist selling clothing, decoration, couture, organic cotton, silk, and cashmere fabrics
Sternschanze
Marktstraße is a Trendy shopping street in the Schanze with independent fashion, vintage shops, and design stores. At Sternschanze, the range centers on independent fashion, vintage shops, and design stores along the Schanze's Marktstraße.
Best for Independent fashion, vintage shops, and design stores along the Schanze's Marktstraße.
Germany
Hamburg-rooted womenswear since 1995 — Scandinavian-leaning elegance with emphasis on colour, print, and enduring quality.
Best for Scandi-inspired womenswear
Olsen is an international womenswear brand founded in Hamburg in 1995, known for effortlessly stylish, high-quality clothing designed for modern, confident women. The brand emphasizes the beauty of women through considered colour palettes, distinctive prints, and premium fabrics. Every piece is well-cut and flattering, drawing on Hamburg's trading heritage to balance timeless style with a modern edge. Olsen has built decades of expertise in understanding what women actually want to wear and delivering it consistently across tops, shirts, jackets, coats, blazers, trousers, and more. The brand is represented in over 20 countries, known for quality craftsmanship and sustainable practices.
Karolinenviertel, Hamburg
Founded in 2000 by designer Regine Steenbock in Hamburg's Karolinenviertel; garments are handmade in-house, and Steenbock has paired the label with art and photography projects such as 'Chinese Weave.'
Best for Handmade women's clothing by Hamburg designer Regine Steenbock
SIUM is a small women's fashion label founded in 2000 by designer Regine Steenbock, based in Hamburg's Karolinenviertel, a district known for independent studios and small-batch retail rather than chain stores. Steenbock designs and produces her pieces largely in-house rather than through mass manufacturing, positioning the label around handmade construction and unconventional silhouettes rather than seasonal trend-following. Beyond garments, Steenbock has extended the SIUM name into collaborative art and publishing projects, including 'Chinese Weave,' a book credited to her, and 'BEM-TE-VIE,' a joint project with artists Roxane Borujerdi and Jochen Lempert that blends textile work with photography. The label maintains a webshop and a blog, 'Lands Outside,' through which Steenbock documents projects and cultural references that inform the clothing. SIUM has remained a single-designer operation rather than expanding into a larger label or retail chain, which keeps production volumes small and ties the collections closely to Steenbock's own ongoing art and photography work rather than a conventional seasonal fashion calendar.
Sternschanze
Stilbruch is a vintage and second-hand clothing store in the Schanze with carefully curated retro fashion.
Best for Carefully curated retro fashion in the Schanze
Sternschanze
Secondhand department store run by Hamburg's municipal sanitation service, Stadtreinigung Hamburg; rescues furniture, clothing, books and electronics daily from bulky-waste collections and donations for resale, with an in-house repair workshop.
Best for Second-hand retro fashion curated in the Schanze
Stilbruch is Hamburg's secondhand department-store operation, run by the city's own sanitation authority, Stadtreinigung Hamburg, rather than a private vintage retailer. It marked its 25th anniversary in July 2026, putting its founding around 2001. The stores are stocked from what the operation intercepts daily — furniture, clothing, books, bicycles, kitchenware and electronics pulled from bulky-waste collections, recycling drop-off points and direct donations before they reach landfill — and an in-house workshop refurbishes items before they go back on the floor. The two confirmed Stilbruch locations open to shoppers are in Altona (Ruhrstraße 51) and Wandsbek (Helbingstraße 63), both operating six days a week with separate hours for dropping off goods. The model doubles as municipal waste diversion and affordable secondhand retail, funded through the same public sanitation budget that runs Hamburg's household waste collection.
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