Plate M-16 · 2,224 stores · 151–300 of 2224 · curated ORBIS register
Isabelle Bajart offers designer secondhand clothing on Rue Dansaert, including Belgian labels alongside houses such as Chanel and Dior. Natan adds Belgian womenswear and evening dressing to the selection, with tailoring central to the house's approach. Katti Zoób brings couture techniques and geometric design from Budapest, continuing the fashion house established by its namesake in 1994.
This plate lists 2,224 shops in 122 countries. Paris has the most with 191, followed by Tokyo with 68. Among these shops, 90 describe made-to-order work, 12 offer repairs, 234 sell online and 11 work by appointment, going by their own descriptions.
Ask whether the label is the shop's own: some shops design and make their own collections, while others select from other labels.
Ask about alterations: ask whether the shop shortens and adjusts garments, and how long that takes.
Ask about returns and shipping: ask whether pieces can be exchanged from abroad and sent to your country.
Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg / Online
Coexist is a Berlin concept store for alternative and sustainable slow fashion, officially opened in 2014 after founder Anna developed her Indyanna label in London. The shop mixes handmade designer pieces and international labels with Indyanna work still made in its own fashion studio and tailor room.
Best for Independent and sustainable fashion from multiple designers
Mitte (Auguststrasse)
On Auguststrasse in Mitte, do you read me?! curates several hundred international magazines and books on fashion, art, photography, design and food, favouring independent and small-run titles. The shop is a fixture of Berlin's independent-publishing scene, stocking Japanese magazines and graphic-design journals alongside notebooks and totes.
Best for International magazines and design books
Germany
Trouser-only sub-line of the German brand Brax (trousers since 1950, parent company founded in Berlin in 1888), on the market since 1995 with an ergonomic 'Perfect Cut' sizing system built for a range of body types, including plus sizes.
Best for Trousers, casual; Premium trousers
Eurex by Brax is a trousers-only line within the German company Brax, whose roots go back to 1888, when Bernward Leineweber opened a clothing business in Berlin. Brax itself, as a dedicated trousers brand marketed under the slogan 'the trousers of progress,' launched in 1950. Eurex was introduced in 1995 as a specialist offering built around a proprietary 'Perfect Cut' pattern system, engineered to fit a wider range of body shapes - including larger sizes - than a standard trouser block. The line covers chinos, jeans and dress trousers, and is stocked both through Brax's own retail channels and specialist plus-size menswear retailers such as Hirmer big & tall.
Berlin / Online
Berlin collaborative brand born from the dance floor — deadstock materials from Milan, tight jerseys, PVC pants, and bulky leather jackets. Resistance through fashion.
Best for Club-born avant-garde fashion
Hermannplatz, Neukölln, Berlin
Historic Berlin department store on Hermannplatz, opened in 1929 as Europe's largest department store with its own U-Bahn entrance and Art Deco twin towers; badly damaged in WWII, rebuilt, and now trades as a Galeria store following the 2019 Karstadt-Kaufhof merger.
Best for Fashion, home goods, and a rooftop terrace at Hermannplatz
The Hermannplatz department store, on the border of Kreuzberg and Neukolln, opened in 1929 to significant fanfare, designed in an Expressionist style by architect Philipp Schaeffer for the Karstadt group. At the time it was the largest department store in Europe, featuring escalators, lifts, a roof terrace, and its own direct entrance from the Hermannplatz U-Bahn station. The building was badly damaged during the Second World War, and only the southwest wing of the original structure survives. The store has continued trading on the same site, and today operates as a Galeria store following the 2019 merger of Karstadt and Kaufhof into Galeria.
Berlin / Online
Berlin label handcrafting bags, small leather goods, jewelry and clothing from considered materials including deadstock.
Best for Architectural leather bags, small goods and Berlin-made accessories
Berlin / Online
Berlin sustainable fashion label built around ten numbered wardrobe essentials (T-shirts through coats), founded by creative director Ashley Marc Hovelle. Uses organic, rainwater-grown cotton and fair-factory production in Portugal; flagship store on Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße.
Best for One of ten numbered wardrobe staples, from 01 T-Shirts to 10 Coats
Oftt is a Berlin fashion label built around a collection of ten numbered wardrobe categories, running from 01 T-Shirts to 10 Coats. The name is read as clothes you wear often, and the numbers are described as an edit rather than a ranking. Founder Ashley Marc Hovelle ran a namesake fashion brand before launching Oftt on its ten year anniversary. Every piece is designed without a gender attached to the cut, and each product page records the fabric weight and cut along with construction decisions. Garments are produced in small batches in family run factories in Portugal and Romania, which the brand visits. When a piece sells through it may be reproduced later, and there are no sales because the price is set once. The brand describes its cotton as grown organically and mostly with rainwater, and it works with GOTS certified factories. Oftt keeps a flagship store at Rosa Luxemburg Str. 23 in Berlin, where the OFTT and 1331 brands share one space as a family business. Visitors can see the full collection of ten there along with in store exclusives.
Mitte / Online
PLATTE is a Berlin platform for the city’s next generation of fashion, combining a concept-and-event space with an education hub, photo studio and collaborative projects. Its store gives shelf space to local labels while the wider program connects emerging designers with audiences and industry.
Best for Berlin design, fashion, events and rotating local-designer retail
Berlin / Germany
Urban Spree's bookshop, inside its postindustrial compound at Revaler Strasse 99 in Berlin, sells hand-picked graffiti, street art, and photography books alongside zines, screen prints, and t-shirts produced under its own imprint, Urban Spree Books. The shop keeps regular hours alongside the site's gallery, concert room, and biergarten, with an online storefront for checkout.
Best for Street-art, books, zines, prints, apparel
Kreuzberg / Online
Voo Store is a Kreuzberg concept space that filters Berlin through local and international fashion, modern design and visual culture. The Oranienstraße complex also includes Voo Deli for natural wine and food, Voo Space for gallery collaborations and an archive project mixing past-season and vintage pieces.
Best for Multi-brand fashion, books and design objects
Bern / Switzerland
Atelier Moda is a Bern tailoring shop above Coop City Ryfflihof that has spent over 25 years altering, repairing and making custom suits for women and men. Walk-ins are welcome alongside scheduled appointments, and the shop lists per-item pricing on its site, such as hemming trousers from 20 francs.
Best for Custom suits, alterations and repairs for women and men
Biella, Italy
Piacenza traces its textile business to 1733 in Pollone, within the Biella district of northern Italy. The house now sells knitwear and ready-to-wear alongside scarves, drawing on a range of natural fibres. Its factory is in Pollone, while the published ready-to-wear showroom address is in Milan.
Best for Knitwear and natural-fibre scarves
Piacenza's knitwear has its roots in Pollone, in the Biella textile district of northern Italy. The company's range includes ready-to-wear and accessories made with natural fibres. Its account of production is useful for understanding what sits behind a finished garment, beyond the name on the label.
An order begins with a technical sheet specifying the yarn and model, with instructions prepared at the Pollone plant. Knitting machines make the main body separately from sleeves and collars. Assembly then combines hand work with specialised machines. This is a sequence of different operations, rather than a claim that the whole garment is hand-knitted.
Washing brings out the fabric's softness before machine pressing and hand finishing. The finished knit is folded and packed with its technical sheet and identifying code. Piacenza describes that code as a way to follow a garment through the process. When comparing pieces, the fibre composition and construction therefore offer a more useful starting point than a broad promise of craftsmanship. The house's own explanation makes those production stages visible without turning the shop into a factory-tour destination.
Casco Viejo / Online
Lotune is a Casco Viejo collective shop created by four Bilbao brands: Con S de Su, Kiribiltxo, Palopalú and Lágrimas de cocodrilo. Everything is made by hand in limited editions, spanning bags, contemporary jewelry, wood-and-illustration objects and colorful family clothing.
Best for Jewelry, bags, home objects and clothing from four local design partners
Centro
MINIMIL is a women-led Basque fashion house known for restrained, functional New Basque Style clothing.
Best for Basque tailoring, architectural coats and restrained knitwear
Colmore Row (The Grand)
A clothing shop in The Grand on Colmore Row dealing in menswear and accessories with an emphasis on denim, workwear, and classic tailoring. It carries heritage-leaning labels rather than fast fashion.
Best for Denim and heritage menswear
Bled / Slovenia
The shop on Bled's island sells devotional pieces and souvenirs, as well as clothing.
Best for Devotional pieces and island souvenirs
Quinta Camacho, Bogotá
LaPercha brings together independent Colombian labels making distinctive clothing and accessories.
Best for Fashion
Via Ugo Bassi
Tailoring in Bologna since 1932, De Paz cuts bespoke suits and shirts from British and Italian cloth and stocks knitwear and ties. The Via Ugo Bassi shop handles both made-to-measure and ready-to-wear menswear.
Best for Bespoke tailoring and menswear
Borgo Panigale / Bologna / Online
Motorcycle marque founded in Bologna in 1926 by Antonio Cavalieri Ducati and his three sons as a radio-components maker; built its Borgo Panigale factory in 1935 and entered motorcycles after WWII with the 1946 Cucciolo engine.
Best for Ducati apparel and collector gear.
Ducati did not start as a motorcycle company. In 1926, Antonio Cavalieri Ducati and his sons Adriano, Marcello and Bruno founded Societa Scientifica Radiobrevetti Ducati in Bologna to manufacture vacuum tubes and other radio components. Success in that business funded a larger factory in the Borgo Panigale district of Bologna, built in 1935. Ducati's move into two wheels came after the war: the 1946 Cucciolo was a small auxiliary engine meant to be clipped onto an ordinary bicycle, and the first motorcycle built entirely at Borgo Panigale, the Ducati 60, followed in 1949. The Borgo Panigale site has remained the company's headquarters and main factory ever since, and now houses the Ducati Museum.
Bologna / Online
Bologna luxury fashion—tailored eveningwear and occasionwear with Italian refinement, plus lingerie and accessories for a contemporary silhouette.
Best for Occasion power dresses.
Elisabetta Franchi is an Italian luxury fashion house headquartered in Quarto Inferiore di Granarolo Emilia, Bologna, offering clothing, accessories, footwear, lingerie, and bridal collections under multiple lines including Elisabetta Franchi La Mia Bambina (children's) and Elisabetta Franchi For Pronovias (bridal). The brand's design approach emphasizes sophisticated tailoring and occasion dressing, featuring prominently in red-carpet and formal collections. The label operates globally with boutiques and an official online presence serving North America through a dedicated USA shop, alongside international retail. Elisabetta Franchi integrates ethical positioning through its Animal Free initiative and a charitable foundation, embedding values into its design practice. Collections are released seasonally with distinct Fall-Winter and Spring-Summer offerings, reflecting the contemporary luxury market's rhythm. The brand represents contemporary Italian fashion where technical tailoring meets fashion-forward design for a customer base seeking polished, occasion-ready pieces.
Bordeaux / France
In Bordeaux, 5 Rue du Temple specialises in men's ready-to-wear.
Best for Men's ready-to-wear
Bordeaux / France
Balletto in Bordeaux carries clothing, footwear and accessories for classical, jazz, contemporary and Latin dance.
Best for Dancewear and dance shoes
19 rue Bouffard, 33000 Bordeaux, France / Bordeaux / France
Founded 2018 by Xavier Lalère, former chef chocolatier at Cadiot-Badie; Bordeaux Tourisme and Two Cups Flour treat the Bouffard door as a working chocolate factory-and-shop.
Best for Locally authored fashion and textiles.
Pearl Street, Boulder
Starfish is a Boulder jewellery shop offering artisan and handmade pieces, mixing its own designs with work from independent makers. It sells fashion and fine jewellery from its Pearl Street store and online.
Best for Artisan and handmade jewellery
13026 Highway 9, Boulder Creek
A vintage shop at 13026 Highway 9 dealing in restored mid-century-modern stereo equipment and vinyl records. It also stocks vintage clothing and locally made apparel.
Best for Restored stereos, vinyl and vintage apparel
Bozeman (curated)
A Bozeman women's clothing shop offering casual and dressy apparel with accessories and gifts. The independent boutique curates approachable, everyday styles for its Gallatin Valley customers.
Best for Everyday women's clothing
Bozeman (curated)
An independent Bozeman women's clothing boutique carrying curated apparel, shoes and accessories. The shop focuses on wearable contemporary style for Montana life across the seasons.
Best for Women's contemporary apparel
downtown Bozeman
Founded in Bozeman in 1946, Schnee's is a heritage bootmaker and outfitter known for its own hunting and pac boots and technical outdoor apparel. Its flagship occupies a 1903 building on Main Street, blending in-house footwear with mountain hunting and fishing gear.
Best for Handmade hunting boots and outdoor apparel
Braga / Portugal
Janes on Rua do Souto in Braga sets out to change the everyday gesture of dressing.
Best for Multi-brand fashion
Williamsburg / DUMBO, Brooklyn
Flea market in New York — vintage clothing, antique furniture, artisan food, and the treasure hunt that defines Brooklyn weekends.
Best for Vintage finds, artisan food, and Brooklyn's best weekend treasure hunt.
Brooklyn / United States
The Brooklyn Museum Shop curates art books, apparel, and prints tied to the museum's exhibitions and permanent collection, including its current Iris van Herpen show. The store operates both online and from its home inside the museum on Eastern Parkway, open Wednesday through Sunday.
Best for Museum store, books, apparel, prints
Noordzandstraat / Online
Founded by Martine Goethals, l’Héroïne is a Bruges multi-label boutique centered on Belgian designer fashion. Its rotating brand roster makes the shop a destination for discovering Belgian labels alongside selected international designers.
Best for Belgian and international designer fashion and jewelry
Bruges
Selected by Francoise is a curated second-hand and vintage clothing boutique in Bruges. It focuses on quality designer and classic pieces.
Best for Vintage and second-hand fashion
Brussels / Belgium / Online
Bellerose's Brussels Louise shop offers clothing for women and men, with a children's collection also listed. Located at 66 Avenue Louise, it brings the Belgian brand's casual wardrobe into a single store. Shoppers can explore clothing for different members of the family at the same address.
Best for Casual clothing for adults and children on Avenue Louise
Bellerose dates its beginning to the summer of 1989. The label defines its work around everyday essentials that combine comfort with considered design, a useful frame for a range spanning women and men, with children included. Current collections include clothing and footwear, alongside accessories, rather than a single specialist product. The family structure of the assortment matters: children's pieces are not an occasional extension hidden behind the adult lines, but a named part of the brand's navigation. Bellerose also describes sustainability as one criterion in selecting and making its essentials. That claim is broad, so it should not be inflated into an environmental certification. What the first-party material clearly supports is a company with a 1989 origin, a multi-generation wardrobe and an emphasis on daily use. Outerwear and knitwear sit beside denim in the current assortment, extending that wardrobe across seasons. The strongest editorial distinction is restraint. Bellerose builds its case through wearable categories and continuity rather than couture technique, formal tailoring or performance technology.
Brussels
CLOSED's Brussels branch at Rue Dansaert 16 represents the German denim and casualwear brand, not a closure marker. The shop is associated with the house's denim, casual tailoring and knitwear.
Best for Quality denim and casual wear from this German brand's Brussels flagship
Rue Antoine Dansaert, Brussels
Brussels' fashion and design street — Belgian designer boutiques (Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester concept store), concept shops, and trendy cafes. The creative heart.
Best for Design district.
Brussels
Belgian designer vintage on Rue Dansaert — curated high-end second-hand, Chanel and Dior alongside the Belgians.
Best for Vintage fashion.
Brussels / Belgium / Online
Belgian luxury womenswear house — elegant evening wear, refined tailoring, and the atelier behind Queen Mathilde's wardrobe.
Best for Belgian royal-approved elegance
Andrássy Avenue / Terézváros, Budapest
A Budapest fashion label’s permanent store selling its complete womenswear collection, including suits made in its Budapest atelier.
Best for Complete womenswear collection and atelier-made suits from a Budapest label
Aeron is the Budapest label of Eszter Áron, born in Hungary in 1981 into a family already steeped in the trade -- her grandfather worked as a tailor, and she grew up trailing her mother, a textile trader, through industry fairs. Before founding her own house in 2012, Áron studied business alongside fashion design and ran the atelier of Hungary's largest apparel manufacturer, an apprenticeship that gave her equal fluency in creative direction and production logistics. That dual grounding shows in the collections, which Áron describes as built on 'the friction that comes from balancing opposites': masculine cut against feminine drape, elegant fabrication against rustic texture, hand-finishing against machine precision, classical tailoring against progressive silhouette. The label favors 'sustained evolution over radical revolution' -- incremental refinement of a recognizable vocabulary rather than reinvention each season -- alongside a stated commitment to waste-reducing production and responsibly sourced materials. In November 2023, Aeron opened its first bricks-and-mortar store, on Andrássy Avenue, inside a townhouse designed by the noted 19th-century Hungarian architects Miklós Ybl and Emil Ungár, one of the boulevard's earliest buildings and, as of its 2024 anniversary, 150 years old. Interior designer Eszter Bertóty translated the brand's design ethos into the retail space itself, giving Áron's atelier-honed philosophy a permanent home on one of Central Europe's most storied shopping streets.
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest couture house founded 1994 by Katti Zoób, fusing heritage haute couture techniques with contemporary design and geometric artistry.
Best for Artistic dresses
Katti Zoób established her design house in Budapest in 1994, building on her background as a costume designer and student-garment maker. Over the course of her career, she trained in couture techniques while showing collections at Paris, London, Vienna, and Shanghai fashion weeks. The brand's design philosophy centers on bridging classical haute couture with modern fashion, preserving artisan heritage techniques while engaging contemporary technology. Her collections are characterized by colorful, playful geometries, with roses appearing as a recurring motif. Zoób gained additional recognition through collaboration with the Zsolnay porcelain house, creating unique jewelry pieces available at Harrods in London. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, and she continues to create both ready-to-wear and custom couture orders for cultural heritage events, maintaining Budapest as the base for her independent design practice.
Terézváros
NUBU is an independent Hungarian fashion label built around minimalist, architectural clothing, and its Budapest flagship, NUBU ZEN Store, occupies Andrássy út 15, on the grand boulevard that runs past the Hungarian State Opera House in the Terézváros district.
Best for Minimalist, architectural clothing from an independent Hungarian label's Budapest flagship
NUBU is an independent Hungarian fashion label built around minimalist, architectural clothing, and its Budapest flagship, NUBU ZEN Store, occupies Andrássy út 15, on the grand boulevard that runs past the Hungarian State Opera House in the Terézváros district. The label has been recognized in Hungarian and regional press as one of the country's leading contemporary fashion names, with coverage in outlets such as We Love Budapest describing its collections as ones that draw explicitly on contemporary art for seasonal inspiration; a 2021 collection, for instance, was reported as directly inspired by contemporary artworks rather than conventional runway references. The Andrássy út address functions as a full flagship rather than a satellite or pop-up, carrying NUBU's main collections alongside seasonal releases, with the brand referring to its own 'SS26' collection as being available in stores at this address. The clothing itself is defined by clean lines and architectural silhouettes rather than embellishment, positioning NUBU within a broader Central European minimalist design sensibility while remaining independently owned and Budapest-based rather than part of a larger fashion group.
Budapest / Hungary
Inside the Hungarian State Opera's old ticket hall on Dalszínház utca, OperaShop sells CDs, DVDs, records, books, posters, jewelry, and opera glasses found nowhere else, plus a second branch in the Eiffel Art Studios' Locomotive Hall. Its webshop at operashop.hu extends the same souvenirs, framed photography, and branded clothing online.
Best for Music, memorabilia, books, jewelry
Belváros, Budapest
Paloma is a Budapest courtyard design space where independent Hungarian makers sell fashion, jewellery, art and homeware. Because several sellers share the venue, it functions as a multi-vendor destination rather than one merchant.
Best for Independent Hungarian fashion, jewelry, art, and homeware in a courtyard design space
Tabán, Budapest
A concept store selling locally produced clothing, backpacks, accessories, and home goods, with some production upstairs. Dea Bilau has co-run the store since 2018.
Best for Locally produced clothing, backpacks, and home goods, some made upstairs
Erzsébetváros, Budapest
Zita Majoros founded Printa in 2009 at Rumbach Sebestyen utca 10A in Budapest's District VII. The room works as shop, gallery and screen-printing studio at once, and every exhibition in the Printa Edition gallery comes with limited serigraphs printed on site. Products run from clothing and canvas bags to kitchen textiles and printed maps of Pest. Sustainability and zero waste construction shape what the studio makes.
Best for Budapest-themed screen prints, clothing, and recycled-paper goods, since 2009
Zita Majoros founded Printa in 2009, after an earlier venture called Bolt Muhely in 2006. She was born in Serbia, graduated in graphics from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and has said she wanted a creative playground where she could realise her own ideas. The shop stands at Rumbach Sebestyen utca 10A in District VII, diagonally opposite the Rumbach Sebestyen Street Synagogue. Majoros has lived in the district since 1999, when it was run down, and told We Love Budapest that its architecture and dark facades were what held her. Printa works as shop, gallery, screen-printing studio in one room. Every exhibition in the Printa Edition gallery is accompanied by limited-run serigraphs printed in the shop's own workshop. The product range covers clothing for women, men, children, along with canvas bags, kitchen textiles, cushions, printed maps of Pest. Sustainability is the stated design constraint rather than a slogan, and the studio works with zero waste construction and reuse. The Hetker label, named after the everyday Hungarian word for District VII, put the quarter's buildings on shirts and bags in 2022. The shop opens daily and the workshop runs behind it.
Rumbach Sebestyén u. 10, Budapest
Hungarian design — screen-printed textiles, graphics, and fashion by local designers. The concept store supports Budapest's creative scene.
Best for Screen-printed textiles, graphics, and fashion by local Hungarian designers
Terézváros, Budapest
Retrock sells vintage clothing and the work of young Hungarian designers from a large store at Anker köz 2-4 in Budapest. The shop states it has operated for twenty years and picks thousands of men's and women's pieces one by one, with sustainability as its founding idea. Hungarian designers have held a prominent place since the beginning, and an ethical wool line from Ecuador is also carried. A webshop shows part of the range, and new arrivals appear on Instagram.
Best for Vintage denim and leather jackets, band tees, independent Hungarian designers
Belváros, Budapest
A family shoemaking house producing hand-welted ready-to-wear and bespoke footwear in Budapest.Established 1978.
Best for Hand-welted ready-to-wear and bespoke footwear from a Budapest family house since 1978
Buenos Aires / Recoleta
Buenos Aires' great talabartería since 1987, a three-storey Recoleta townhouse of gaucho craft — hand-stitched saddles, polo boots, capybara leather and criollo silverwork, the estancia tradition brought whole into the capital.
Best for Gaucho leather, polo kit and Argentine silversmithing.
Buenos aires / Argentina
Atelier Molina is Carlos Molina's Buenos Aires atelier, where each garment, from leather jackets to hand-painted silk dresses, is designed and sewn on site as a one-of-a-kind piece with prices listed on its online shop. The atelier on Malabia street welcomes walk-in shoppers Monday through Saturday and ships finished pieces worldwide.
Best for Haute Couture, Leather Goods
Buenos aires / Argentina
AY NOT DEAD runs several stores across Buenos Aires and Cordoba, including its Palermo storefront at Gurruchaga 1715, selling denim, apparel, and accessories for men and women. The brand also operates a full online shop with nationwide shipping and installment payment options.
Best for Fashion, denim, apparel
Multiple
Founded in Buenos Aires in 1992 by designers Cynthia Kern and Daniela Magnano with publicist Federico Bonomi, starting with $600 in capital selling clothes to friends before building a denim-driven label.
Best for Argentine womenswear and denim
Kosiuko was founded in Buenos Aires in 1992, during Argentina's convertibility era, by designers Cynthia Kern and Daniela Magnano together with publicist Federico Bonomi, who started the business with roughly 600 US dollars in initial capital. The founding took place during the peso-dollar convertibility plan of the early 1990s, a period of currency stability that preceded Argentina's later economic crises. The trio began by making clothing to sell among friends before formalizing the company; it was legally registered in 1993 under the name Kowzef, with the Kosiuko brand name adopted the same year. The label built its identity around denim and became a reference point in Buenos Aires women's fashion, known for close attention to fabric quality and design detail. Kosiuko has since expanded into menswear and grown into a national Argentine brand with a presence across multiple cities, while keeping its original focus on trend-driven, denim-centered womenswear.
Palermo, Buenos Aires / Argentina / Online
Luz Ballestero is an Argentine designer clothing brand making jeans, knitwear and outerwear intended to last, sold online with nationwide Argentine shipping and through its own physical stores listed on its site. The label also runs capsule collections like L-B/Leather and L-B/Coats alongside seasonal drops.
Best for Womenswear, Argentine designer fashion, denim
Palermo (Gorriti)
Nimes is a Palermo leather house on Gorriti, hand-making bags, backpacks and small goods in its own neighborhood workshop. The range extends to leather coats, belts and skirts, each cut and stitched in-house rather than outsourced.
Best for Handcrafted leather bags, backpacks and accessories
Palermo, Buenos Aires / Online
Buenos Aires' bohemian fashion house — prints, embroidery and rocker-gypsy ease that dressed a generation of porteñas and spread across Latin America.
Best for Boho porteño womenswear
Marcelo T. de Alvear 550, C1058 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina / Buenos Aires / Argentina
Made-to-measure leather and tailoring on Marcelo T. de Alvear, cut in Buenos Aires.
Best for Made-to-measure leather and tailoring.
Chacarita / Online
Vanesa Krongold is a Buenos Aires house for bold colourful disruptive fashion, vibrant combinations fusing feminine/masculine/streetwear. Founded in 2012; Designed and produced in Buenos Aires where stated.
Best for Bold colourful disruptive fashion, vibrant combinations fusing feminine/masculine/streetwear
Buffalo / New York / Online
Buffalo's Ivy institution — trad clothing and proper shirts. One-piece collar available on custom and made-to-measure orders.
Best for Trad American shirting
Byron bay / Australia
McTavish, founded by pioneering surfboard shaper Bob McTavish, sells handcrafted surfboards and apparel from its Byron Bay shop on Centennial Circuit as well as a Brookvale store near Sydney, with a working online shop shipping domestically and internationally. Its board lines include the Dually, Bluebird, Battler, and Fireball models alongside men's and women's clothing.
Best for Surfboards, apparel
Byron Bay / Australia
The Local on Fletcher Street in Byron Bay stocks an eclectic mix of apparel and homewares.
Best for Apparel, homewares and retro vinyl
Zamalek
50A Concept Store's Facebook page lists Fashion, Accessories, Bags, Jewelry, Furniture, and Kids' Toys among what it carries. It is based in Cairo.
Best for Fashion accessories bags and jewelry
Maadi and Zamalek
Established in 2013 with branches in Maadi and Zamalek, Jozee Boutique sells handmade kaftans, dresses, scarves, bags and home goods built on loom-weaving and embroidery. It sources directly from artisans in Siwa, Saint Catherine, Naqada and Akhmim, many of them women.
Best for Ethnic handmade fashion and accessories
Cairo
Modest fashion brand offering elegant abayas, hijabs, and modest dresses with contemporary cuts and high-quality Egyptian fabrics.
Best for Elegant abayas, hijabs, and modest dresses in high-quality Egyptian fabrics
New Cairo, Cairo
Sara Elemary sells women's ready-to-wear including evening wear, denim, coats, jackets, cardigans and pants or skirts. The label also offers dresses, jumpsuits, tops, accessories and loungewear across its Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter collections.
Best for Evening wear, denim and ready-to-wear dresses
Sayyida Aisha
Cairo's largest Friday market, an open-air treasure hunt for antiques, vintage clothing, old coins, Islamic manuscripts, and second-hand curiosities.
Best for Antiques, vintage clothing, old coins, Islamic manuscripts, and second-hand curiosities
Zamalek
Award-winning Egyptian haute couture label known for intricate beadwork, embroidery, and red-carpet gowns worn by celebrities across the Middle East.
Best for Intricate beadwork, embroidery, and red-carpet gowns for Middle East celebrities
Cairo
Egyptian adventure gear brand creating travel backpacks, camping equipment, and outdoor apparel tested on Sinai and desert expeditions.
Best for Travel backpacks, camping equipment, and outdoor apparel tested on Sinai desert expeditions
Calgary Farmers' Market
Run by Cristina and Sofia at the Calgary Farmers' Market, CRAFTED gathers the work of emerging Canadian makers across jewellery, ceramics, apparel, and bath goods. The storefront acts as a shared shelf for small-batch and handmade producers, with online ordering and pickup.
Best for Locally made handmade goods
Cannes / France
Le Shop 17 is a concept store for women's ready-to-wear and accessories on rue Notre-Dame in Cannes.
Best for Women's ready-to-wear and accessories
V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
The store sits at The Alfred in Cape Town's V&A Waterfront, open daily from 9am to 8pm, and sells contemporary African fashion, homeware and gifts including jewelry, ceramics, basketware and stationery. Its collections carry names such as Zulu Beading, Mud Cloth and Raw Earth Ceramics, and it features work by Monkeybiz beadwork and Imiso Ceramics.
Best for African fashion homeware and gifts
Kloof Street, Gardens / Online
AKJP Studio is a retailer in Cape Town for south African fashion, jewelry, accessories, fragrance and homeware from many designers.
Best for South African fashion, jewelry, accessories, fragrance and homeware from many designers
Bree Street, Cape Town
The South African luxury boutique sells apparel including coats, dresses, jackets, jumpsuits, pants and shirts, and offers Bridal & Bespoke services. Its news section references "Malcolm And Christiaan" and the brand also publishes a "Magalogue."
Best for Bespoke and bridal fashion
Long Street / Online
Opened in 2010, Merchants on Long is a Cape Town concept store and an international platform for African fashion and design, emerging and established. Every label it stocks is described by the store as ethically made and sourced in Africa.
Best for Pan-African fashion and accessories from multiple designers
V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
The store at Shop 2, the new Alfred Mall, Victoria & Alfred Hotel, Dock Road, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town is open 10am-7pm seven days a week and sells dresses, tops, bottoms, jumpsuits and jackets/knitwear along with bags, jewelry, hair accessories, sunglasses and footwear.
Best for Women's dresses and accessories
Kloof Street, Cape Town, Online
Poetry dresses Cape Town in natural fibres and quiet colour — South African womenswear and homeware made for slow wardrobes.
Best for Considered South African womenswear and homeware
Cape Town
Purr is an online boutique at Ground Floor, Lifestyle on Kloof, 50 Kloof Street, Gardens, Cape Town, described as showcasing a curated selection of local and international fashion brands including A Bird Named Frank, Beach Cult and Pichulik. It sells clothing, footwear and accessories such as scarves, jewelry and bags.
Best for Curated multi-brand womenswear boutique
Gardens, Cape Town
The ethical womenswear brand sells dresses, tops, bottoms, jumpsuits, outerwear, knitwear, leather accessories and footwear from stores at Gardens Centre and the Watershed in Cape Town and a store in Stellenbosch, emphasizing natural fabrics and contributing "1% for good."
Best for Women's natural-fabric clothing
Hout Street, Cape Town
Tailor Me is a custom tailoring business at 52 Hout Street, Cape Town City Centre, that has spent over a decade crafting premium custom suits, dresses, shirts and accessories for occasions like weddings and matric dances. It offers mobile consultations, coming to clients for measurements.
Best for Custom-made suits and formalwear
Sea Point, Cape Town
Founded by Ashleigh Battle Russell, the concept store operates from 77 Regent Road, Sea Point and 15 Vineyard Road, Claremont, selling dresses, tops, bottoms, active wear, swimwear, jewelry and lifestyle items from its own line and partner brands including BeachCult and Ivana.
Best for Curated women's fashion and swimwear
Cape Town
The Modernist Tailoring, at 54 President Swart Street, Panorama/Plattekloof, Cape Town, makes custom suits, blazers and tuxedos along with shirts in cotton, Egyptian cotton and linen, using fabric brands Vitale Barberis, Scabal, Reda, Drago and Dormeuil. Garments can be made slim-fit, tailored fit or regular fit, and the business also operates in Bloemfontein, Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Best for Custom-made suits and tailored shirts
Century City, Cape Town
Zedmen, established in 2005, makes custom menswear, suits and shirts from European fabrics at locations in Rosebank, Johannesburg and Marriott Crystal Towers, Century City, Cape Town. Services include wedding suits and professional wardrobes, tailored under the slogan "Crafted in Europe, Engineered for You."
Best for Custom tailored suits from European fabric
Centro Histórico, Cartagena
Discover Archipiélago's sustainable luxury fashion, handmade in Colombia. Explore timeless designs in linen, cotton, and embroidered fabrics.
Best for Fashion
Cartagena
Ketty Tinoco is a Cartagena designer known as "La Dama del Lino" for reviving traditional linen embroidery. Her collections include openwork dresses for women and simplified guayaberas for men.
Best for Linen guayaberas and embroidered dresses from Cartagena designer Ketty Tinoco
Cartagena
Maygel Coronel is a Cartagena-founded womenswear label known for sculptural resort and occasion pieces. Its local retail presence makes it a natural stop for buyers looking for Colombian vacation dressing with a strong design signature.
Best for A Cartagena-founded fashion label's local retail collection.
Carrera 3 N 31-11, next to Plaza Santa Teresa (walled city), Cartagena
Silvia Tcherassi is a Colombian couturier whose Cartagena boutique sits beside Plaza Santa Teresa in the walled city, showing her resort and eveningwear. The house has operated in the city for more than two decades and later expanded into the adjacent Tcherassi Hotel.
Best for Colombian designer resort and eveningwear
Morocco Mall
Diesel denim and fashion store inside Casablanca's Morocco Mall — the Italian brand's Moroccan retail point for its jeans, clothing and accessories lines within Africa's largest shopping mall.
Best for Edgy, rock-inspired jeans and denim clothing
The Diesel brand store is located inside Morocco Mall in Casablanca, confirmed as an official Diesel retail location via the brand's own store locator. Diesel is an Italian denim and fashion company known for rock-influenced, distressed and directional treatments on jeans and casual wear, sold internationally through both standalone stores and mall-based locations. Morocco Mall, which opened in December 2011 at the junction of Boulevard de la Corniche and Boulevard l'Ocean in Casablanca's Ain Diab district, is described as the largest shopping mall in Africa and hosts a wide roster of international fashion franchises, of which this Diesel store is one. Diesel's own store locator also lists a second, separate Casablanca location (La Villa).
Quartier Princesses, Casablanca
Wonderland Kids Concept Store is a design boutique described on Instagram as selling vintage furniture for kids in what it calls a poetic and offbeat universe. The account has posted furniture and decor content since at least May 2022.
Best for Vintage kids furniture and decor
Cebu City
ANTHILL — short for Alternative Nest and Trading Hub for Indigenous Little Livelihood seekers — sells handwoven Filipino textiles including Binakol, Hablon, T'nalak and Yakan sourced from artisan communities across the country. The Cebu City social enterprise turns the weaves into clothing, accessories and zero-waste fabric.
Best for Handwoven Filipino textiles and heritage weaves
Rue du Village 59, 1874 Champéry / Champéry / Switzerland
Berra Sports offers ski equipment, rental, technical clothing and accessories.
Best for Multigenerational mountain service with roots dating to 1938
Rue du Village 69, 1874 Champéry / Champéry / Switzerland
Boutique 74 offers women’s and men’s fashion with an alpine-resort lens. The range centers on a polished village wardrobe without pretending the village is a luxury capital, with production associated with Switzerland.
Best for A polished village wardrobe without pretending the village is a luxury capital
Rue du Village 65, 1874 Champéry / Champéry / Switzerland
Gonnet Sports offers ski rental, accessories and technical clothing. Production is associated with Switzerland, while the range centers on a historic specialist established in 1932.
Best for A historic specialist established in 1932
Rue du Village 56, 1874 Champéry / Champéry / Switzerland
Verified Champéry door for clothing, accessories and footwear from a boutique established in 1988.
Best for A long-running independent fashion point on the village street
Sector 36A, Chandigarh
Jasmine Bains runs a by-appointment luxury studio in Sector 36A known for eco-printed silk carrying botanical imprints, worked into evening gowns, saris, lehengas and bridal wear. The label pairs Indian craftsmanship with minimal, modern silhouettes and also makes satin scarves and accessories.
Best for Eco-printed silk and occasion wear
Panchkula (Chandigarh tricity)
Shruti Singla's House of Singla builds hand-embroidered occasion wear over a decade of couture, using zari, mirror and threadwork on lehengas, anarkalis, saris and shararas. The atelier favours plant-based natural fabrics and silks for weddings and celebration dressing.
Best for Hand-embroidered bridal and celebration wear
Charleston
Boutique stocking Appalachian, West Virginia, and Charleston-themed apparel, gifts, and home goods from regional makers. It focuses on locally designed, mountain-state merchandise.
Best for West Virginia-themed gifts and apparel
Taikoo Li, Jinjiang District, Chengdu
Fangsuo Commune's Chengdu store sits below the Taikoo Li quarter beside the Daci Temple, a cavernous design-led bookshop stocking Chinese and foreign titles, stationery and craft objects. Its temple-inspired concrete interior threads reading galleries through a coffee bar and a curated range of homeware and apparel.
Best for Design-led books and international bookstore programming
Fangsuo Commune's Chengdu store sits below the Taikoo Li quarter beside the Daci Temple, its concrete, temple-inspired interior threading reading galleries through a coffee bar and a curated range of homeware and apparel. The Chengdu shop is one node in a wider network -- Guangzhou, Qingdao, Xi'an, Sanya and a Shanghai location among them -- run by Guangdong Fangsuo Cultural Investment Development Co., a company whose ambitions extend past bookselling into publishing culture itself: it organizes the International Bookstore Forum and partners with the Fu Lei Translation Publishing Award, an established prize for literature translated into Chinese. The company has also pushed into adjacent cultural real estate, including reading-themed boutique hotel concepts and rural cultural initiatives, treating the bookstore less as a single retail format than as the visible storefront of a broader publishing-and-culture business. Inside the Chengdu store itself, the emphasis stays on the reading experience -- galleries built to be walked through rather than shelved for browsing, with the coffee bar and lifestyle goods positioned as a stop along that route rather than the main event.
Whites Road, Royapettah, Chennai
Set in a restored bungalow with a garden cafe, Amethyst pairs a tearoom with boutiques of Indian designer clothing, jewellery and homeware. The store leans toward handloom labels and artisanal accessories alongside patisserie and a small plant nursery.
Best for Designer boutique, homeware and garden cafe
Chennai
A multi-designer lifestyle boutique, Cinnamon stocks contemporary Indian womenswear, jewellery and home accessories from independent labels. It mixes occasion wear and everyday cottons with craft-led accessories in its Chennai rooms.
Best for Multi-designer womenswear and accessories
Cathedral Road, Chennai
This Cathedral Road boutique gathers Indian handloom textiles, block-printed fabric and folk handicrafts from across the country. Its shelves run to brass and wooden decor, cotton and silk apparel and craft-led gifting.
Best for Handloom textiles, handicrafts and home decor
Chicago / United States
At 5247 N. Clark Street in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood, this boutique market building houses more than 200 local artists and small businesses selling handmade jewelry, artwork, apparel, and home decor under one roof. It also runs an online shop for browsing the same vendor-made goods from home.
Best for Vendor mall, handmade goods, local artists
Pilsen
Vintage and thrift shop opened in 2009 by Paul Gazar at 1430 W 18th Street in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood; the largest store of its kind locally, with weekly-refreshed stock.
Best for Vintage clothing, furniture, and local art in Pilsen
Pilsen Vintage and Thrift opened in 2009 at 1430 W 18th Street in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, part of a wave of vintage shops that opened in the area around that time. It was founded by Paul Gazar, who had worked at another local vintage shop before striking out on his own. The store is described as the largest vintage and thrift shop in the Pilsen community, selling clothing, furniture, records, housewares, accessories and jewelry spanning roughly the 1940s through the 1980s, with new stock brought in on a weekly basis. It sits within Pilsen's broader cluster of secondhand and vintage shops along and near 18th Street.
West Loop
Randolph Street Market is a Monthly indoor/outdoor vintage market with antiques, fashion, indie designers, and food. At West Loop, the range centers on monthly vintage antiques, indie designer fashion, and food market.
Best for Monthly vintage antiques, indie designer fashion, and food market
Logan Square / Online
Wolfbait and B-girls is a retailer in Chicago for goods from Chicago makers, including clothing, jewelry, beauty, prints and home objects.
Best for Goods from Chicago makers, including clothing, jewelry, beauty, prints and home objects
Chioggia / Italy
Dettagli Donna on Calle San Giacomo in Chioggia selects dresses and knitwear, along with blouses and trousers.
Best for Women's clothing and knitwear
Christchurch
Grown from Peri Drysdale's Christchurch knitwear company Snowy Peak, Untouched World makes merino and possum-blend clothing manufactured in New Zealand. The brand runs its flagship store and café in Christchurch.
Best for New Zealand-made merino knitwear
Cologne / Online
Marke is a contemporary Cologne fashion label within Germany's independent scene.
Best for A Cologne fashion label anchoring Pitti Uomo's Neudeutsch showcase.
Germany
German trouser specialist founded in 1960 in the Bergisches Land region near Cologne. Trousers are manufactured at the company's own facility in Targu Secuiesc, Romania, using organic and Fairtrade-certified cotton since converting fully to organic cotton in 2020.
Best for Trousers, quality; Trousers, Chinos
Meyer-Hosen AG is a German family-owned company founded in 1960 with roots in the Bergisches Land area near Cologne, describing itself as Europe's leading specialist in men's trousers. Since the 1990s its production has been based at its own facility in Targu Secuiesc, in the Covasna region of Transylvania, Romania. Meyer has moved its cotton sourcing toward sustainability commitments: in 2020 it switched entirely to organic cotton, and trousers made with Fairtrade-certified cotton carry the Fairtrade Cotton Mark. The trade publication TextilWirtschaft named Meyer its 'Top Brand' for men's trousers in the sustainability category in 2021.
Hyde Park, Colombo
Large-format retail hypermarket with groceries, household goods, electronics, clothing and home appliances under one roof.
Best for Large-format retail hypermarket with groceries, household goods, electronics
Colombo 5, Havelock Town
Designer Amilani Perera debuted at Colombo Fashion Week in 2013 and opened her own flagship in Colombo 5 in 2023, showing ready-to-wear, resort and bridal collections. Since 2020 the label has partnered with UNFPA to involve survivors of gender-based violence in product development, threading a social mission through its womenswear.
Best for Designer womenswear and bridal
Colombo 05
Babybear sells baby and mothercare products that include clothing and nursery furniture as well as toys among its ranges. Its catalogue also covers feeding equipment and strollers as well as car seats and supplies for pregnancy and early childhood. This is a multi-brand retail offer, not a claim that the products are manufactured by Babybear in Sri Lanka.
Best for Baby clothing, nursery equipment and mothercare supplies
BabyBear brings together baby and mothercare products from multiple brands, covering pregnancy through the early years. Its catalogue separates feeding equipment from clothing and nursery furniture. Toys and development products form another section, so the entry functions as a broad retailer rather than a manufacturer. The current product list gives that range useful precision. Nuna appears through the TRVL lx BMW Collection, while Joie is represented by the Litetrax 3 two-in-one stroller. CYBEX listings include the Gold Solution G2 Comfort car seat and the Solution B i-Fix booster seat for children aged three to twelve. Feeding and comfort products include Tommee Tippee bottles and soothers, with bowls also represented. Avent supplies cups and soothers. The catalogue carries both Rascals and Huggies nappies. Mustela skincare appears alongside products by Kidilo and Burbay. BabyBear identifies its flagship at 50 Flower Rd, Colombo 07. That address anchors the multi-brand offer in Colombo while the named products explain its practical breadth. Car seats and strollers cover transport needs. Feeding items sit beside clothing and nursery furniture, addressing several stages of early-childhood care without implying that BabyBear produces the goods. Its value lies in assembling recognised specialist labels within one mothercare catalogue.
Bambalapitiya, Colombo 04
Dense urban shopping stretch on Galle Road with clothing stores, shoe shops, mobile phone dealers, textiles and budget retail.
Best for Clothing stores, shoe shops, mobile phone dealers, textiles and budget retail
Thimbirigasyaya, Colombo 05
Buddhi Batiks began in Sri Lanka in 1971 when Buddhi and Ranasiri Keerthisena started making batik together. Their early work grew from a shirt into a workshop and shop, with wall art and flags also appearing in the brand's history. A 2023 retrospective account describes their daughter Darshi continuing that work as creative director and chief executive.
Best for Sri Lankan batik with a family workshop history
Buddhi Batiks began almost by accident in 1971: Ranasiri Keerthisena wanted to surprise her journalist husband Buddhi with a batik shirt for his birthday, but the artist she approached fell through. Buddhi, an artist himself, suggested they make it together — and that single shirt became the genesis of the business, first run from a workshop behind their home with a shop out front.
Early tourist success led to invitations to exhibit in Europe, particularly Scandinavia and Germany, with the proceeds funding the business's expansion. Over a career spanning more than 40 years, Buddhi Keerthisena became one of the artisans credited with shaping the modern standard of Sri Lankan batik, helping establish it as part of the country's cultural identity.
His daughter Darshi Keerthisena, who holds a B.A. Hons in Fashion and Textile Design from Birmingham City University, took over the family business in 2005 and has continued developing its hand-drawn batik shirts, dresses, sarongs and accessories in contemporary designs. The brand maintains a public presence primarily through its Facebook page rather than a dedicated e-commerce site.
Colombo 07
Sustainable and ethical fashion brand using organic cotton, handloom and natural dyes to create minimalist contemporary clothing.
Best for Minimalist clothing made with organic cotton, handloom weaving, and natural dyes
Multiple Locations, Colombo
Long-standing local fashion chain providing budget-friendly clothing, accessories and footwear for the whole family.
Best for Budget-friendly family clothing, accessories, and footwear.
Colombo 07, Colombo
Good Market's Colombo events bring food producers together with other participating businesses selling clothing and household goods. The organiser lists the nuga tree car park at Colombo Racecourse for its regular event. It is a marketplace of separate vendors, so product origin and ingredients should be checked with the individual seller rather than inferred from the venue.
Best for Producer-led food shopping and goods from participating enterprises
Good Market in Colombo brings participating producers and small businesses together around food and other goods for everyday use. Organic produce and prepared food share the marketplace with vendors offering clothing and household products. The organiser identifies the nuga tree car park at Colombo Racecourse as the location for its regular Colombo event.
The event is part of a wider Good Market network, rather than a single maker producing everything on the stalls. Approved participants include social enterprises and responsible businesses, with the marketplace providing a place to introduce products and meet customers. The organiser also describes the event as a starting point for small enterprises that later develop other outlets or distribution.
Each producer and product needs its own evidence when origin or ingredients matter to the purchase. A market-wide description cannot establish where every garment was made or the composition of every prepared food. Before visiting, check the organiser's current event information rather than using an older venue-move report as a substitute for the present event listing.
Colombo 03
Sri Lankan menswear specialist offering formal wear, office wear, ceremonial clothing, shirts, trousers and traditional wear.
Best for Sri Lankan formal, office, and ceremonial menswear, from shirts to traditional wear.
Colombo
Led by designer Lonali Rodrigo, House of Lonali is Sri Lanka's pioneering upcycling label, turning textile waste into clothing and accessories through zero-waste, circular methods. The studio pairs its own collections with design-and-manufacture services and reports recovering more than ten thousand kilos of fabric offcuts since 2019.
Best for Upcycled fashion and accessories
Nugegoda, Colombo
Kids World is a Nugegoda department store for children’s clothing, school supplies, toys, books and party goods. The broad range supports one-stop family shopping across infancy through teenage years.
Best for Children's clothing, school supplies, toys, books, and party supplies
Multiple Locations, Colombo
Nolimit is a Sri Lankan fast-fashion chain for womenswear, menswear, accessories and footwear. A specific Colombo branch should replace this multiple-location record because range and hours vary by store.
Best for Seasonally updated Sri Lankan fast fashion — womenswear, menswear, accessories, and footwear
One Galle Face, Colombo 02
OVS sells accessible womenswear, menswear and children's clothing through a fast-fashion model.
Best for Accessible Italian womenswear, menswear and kids' clothing
Colombo 03, Colombo
A home-design flagship selling monochrome tableware, ceramics, furniture, antiques, decorative objects, and clothing by Sri Lankan designers. Its Galle Road flagship occupies three floors.
Best for Home-design flagship selling monochrome tableware, ceramics, furniture, antiques, decorative objects
Colombo 07, Colombo
A concept store carrying Sri Lankan and South Asian independent fashion, sandals, swimwear, jewelry, homeware, and beauty products. Annika Fernando owns and curates the store.
Best for Sri Lankan and South Asian independent fashion, sandals, swimwear, and jewelry
Colombo 03, Colombo
A specialist boutique selling Indian and Sri Lankan saris, traditional clothing, shawls, textiles, jewelry, and accessories.
Best for Indian and Sri Lankan saris, traditional clothing, shawls, and textiles
Colombo 05, Colombo
A fair-trade handloom store selling saris, clothing, accessories, toys, table linen, bed linen, and homeware made from handloom textiles. Sandra Wanduragala founded Selyn in 1991 with 15 women working from her home garage in Kurunegala.
Best for Fair-trade handloom saris, table linen, and homeware
Colombo 03
Singer Watch House is a Colombo dealer for Casio, Seiko, Citizen, Titan and fashion watches.
Best for Authorised watches from Casio, Seiko, Citizen, and Titan
Colombo 05
Sonali Dharmawardena came to batik after working in pottery and jewellery and in fine art in oils and watercolour. She works natural fabric with wax as a resist and dye to create her own signature lines, fusing traditional Sri Lankan technique with new methods. The Sonali Dharmawardena and Acushla labels are both her registered trademarks.
Best for Signature wax-resist batik womenswear on natural fabric
Colombo 06, Colombo
A multi-brand store carrying independent Sri Lankan and South Asian clothing, beauty products, books, swimwear, and saris. The store carries more than 50 Sri Lankan and South Asian independent brands.
Best for 50+ independent Sri Lankan and South Asian brands — clothing, beauty, books
Colombo, Sri Lanka
A design store selling Sri Lankan-made homeware, textiles, basketry, furniture, gifts, and fashion produced with local artisans.
Best for Sri Lankan-made homeware, textiles, basketry, and furniture from local artisans
Colombo 04
Youth fashion retailer with trendy streetwear, casual clothing, accessories and sneakers from international and local brands.
Best for Streetwear, sneakers, and accessories from international and local brands
Como
Larioseta manufactures silk scarves and fashion accessories in the Como textile district. It sells printed foulards and scarves directly through its own online shop.
Best for Silk scarves
Grandate (Como)
Founded in 1902, Mantero prints and weaves silk foulards, apparel and accessories at its mill in Grandate just outside Como, drawing on an archive of exclusive patterns. Every step is carried out in the province of Como and the goods are labelled 100% made in Italy.
Best for Printed silk foulards and scarves
Guanzate (Como)
Established in 1945, Ratti weaves and prints silk and fine fabrics at Guanzate near Como and supplies fashion houses internationally. It now operates as a benefit corporation within the Marzotto textile group.
Best for Printed silk fabrics
Como
Silkpro produces silk fabric in the Lake Como textile district and sells it by the metre through its own site. The company markets its cloth as made in Italy for fashion and accessories.
Best for Silk fabric by the metre
Copenhagen
Sustainable Danish basics — ethically produced knitwear and basics using llama wool and organic cotton. The antithesis of fast fashion, with pieces designed to last decades.
Best for The llama wool, the ethical production, and the longevity.
Copenhagen / Online
Copenhagen menswear label named after Hesiod's poem, founded in 2022 by British designer Raff Godfrey after relocating from London; reworks archival workwear pieces using updated materials and construction.
Best for Considered menswear
The brand trading as Works and Days was founded in 2022 by British designer Raff Godfrey after he moved to Copenhagen and took a job at the Danish menswear retailer Norse Projects. Godfrey has said he wouldn't have felt able to take the leap into starting his own label while still living in London, and credited Copenhagen's design community with making it easier. The label takes its name from Hesiod's ancient Greek poem 'Works and Days,' reflecting the brand's stated focus on process and craftsmanship - clothing designed from archival workwear references and rebuilt using updated materials. The line began shipping product for fall/winter 2023 and has been carried by Copenhagen multi-brand retailers including Grocery.
Copenhagen / Danish-German / Online
Bruuns Bazaar makes commercially accessible Scandinavian womenswear and menswear with clean tailoring, knitwear and everyday separates. The range favours coordinated wardrobes and restrained colour over experimental construction.
Best for Scandinavian minimalist fashion
Denmark
Danish luxury womenswear — minimalist charm, feminine allure, and Arabian floral prints. Copenhagen Fashion Week staple since 2004.
Best for Womenswear; Danish luxury womenswear
Copenhagen / Denmark
DLSTUDIO is Copenhagen designer DL Andersen's bespoke atelier in Østerbro, crafting made-to-order garments from European fabrics through personal consultations and multiple fittings, with prices starting at 8,000 DKK. The showroom operates by appointment only and ships finished pieces worldwide.
Best for Bespoke tailoring, made-to-order couture
Copenhagen / Denmark / Online
Copenhagen fashion brand founded 2008, blending brutalist Scandinavian design with avant-garde streetwear aesthetics in eyewear and clothing.
Best for Bold Danish eyewear and fashion
Han Kjøbenhavn was founded in 2008 in Copenhagen by Jannik Wikkelsø Davidsen, initially as an eyewear brand before expanding to include outerwear and shirting. The name Kjøbenhavn (Copenhagen in Danish) anchors the brand's Scandinavian identity. The label blends raw, gritty streetwear influences with avant-garde Scandinavian design, marrying bold aesthetics with premium build quality and construction. The brand offers menswear (jeans, knitwear, outerwear, t-shirts, hoodies) and womenswear (including dresses and skirts), plus a "Second Life" secondhand line and specialized eyewear collections. Han Kjøbenhavn gained international recognition when it designed actress Julia Fox's viral black leather 'Grip Dress' for the 2022 Oscars. The website features distinctive branding including an integrated audio player called "HanAmp" with customizable equalizer settings, reflecting the brand's lifestyle-oriented identity.
Copenhagen / Denmark
Hansen Garments is a Copenhagen menswear label rooted in Nordic design, running two brand stores in the city, on Pilestræde and Gammel Kongevej, alongside its online shop. The stores also carry a curated edit of locally made goods from family businesses that share the brand's focus on quality and craft.
Best for Menswear, denim, Nordic design
Strøget, Copenhagen
Illum is a department store in central Copenhagen, offering a setting for fashion and personal shopping. Its personal-shopping service uses a dedicated suite, where customers can discuss clothing choices with a stylist. The store's Østergade building forms part of its history, distinct from any claim about where products are manufactured.
Best for Department-store fashion and personal shopping
ILLUM is a Copenhagen department store that places fashion beside beauty and design alongside food within one building. Its directory covers womenswear and menswear. Sport and children's goods share space with jewellery and watches as well as home-oriented design. The store also houses Bucherer for watches and jewellery, giving that category a specialist presence within the larger department-store format. Service is part of the proposition. ILLUM's personal-shopping programme operates from a private suite on the second floor, where stylists work with customers on a defined wardrobe brief. Above the retail floors, ILLUM Rooftop adds restaurants and a city view, turning the building into a place where shopping and dining share the same address. The combination explains the store's range: it is not simply a row of fashion concessions, because beauty and design share the building with food and specialist services. The useful distinction is between the breadth of a department store and the focused expertise inside it. ILLUM provides both, with broad floor-by-floor choice and dedicated styling plus specialist watch and jewellery services.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen fashion house founded 1986 by Mads Norgaard, third generation of a family retail line dating to his grandfather's 1944 Stroget shop. Known for its striped-tee signature; stores in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Berlin.
Best for Playful knitwear
Mads Norgaard - Copenhagen traces its retail lineage to 1944, when Mads Norgaard's grandfather, Matthes Mathias, opened a shop on Stroget, Copenhagen's main pedestrian street. Mads' father, Jorgen, took over the business in 1959 and, with his wife Ellen, turned a struggling fabric retailer into a shop attuned to the youth culture and women's-liberation movements of the 1960s and '70s. Mads Norgaard himself, born 1961, opened his own menswear shop in 1986, initially selling only his own small collection before expanding into womenswear - the founding date the brand now uses officially, making Mads the family's third generation of Copenhagen retailers and designers. The brand's defining visual signature is its striped T-shirt. Today the company operates its own stores in Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Berlin in addition to the original Stroget location.
Copenhagen / Kongens Nytorv 13 / Online
Denmark's grand department store since 1868, in the Belle Époque palace on Kongens Nytorv where Hans Christian Andersen once boarded. Five floors of Nordic fashion and design — Royal Copenhagen to Georg Jensen — above the Mad & Vin food hall in the basement.
Best for One roof over the whole of Danish design.
Copenhagen / Aarhus / Online
Copenhagen sneaker and streetwear boutique founded in 2004, focused exclusively on women's footwear from Nike, adidas Originals, New Balance and other major sportswear labels; two stores in Copenhagen plus one in Aarhus.
Best for Danish women's sneaker boutique.
NAKED Copenhagen opened in 2004 as a sneaker retailer built specifically around women's footwear, at a time when sneaker culture and limited releases were marketed almost entirely to men. The company grew from a single Copenhagen shop into two stores in the city's central shopping district plus a third location in Aarhus, alongside an online store shipping internationally. Its stock centers on women's-specific sneaker lines and exclusive colorways from Nike, adidas Originals, ASICS SportStyle, New Balance and Salomon, supplemented by streetwear apparel and accessories. NAKED runs its own raffles and early-access drops for limited releases, a mechanism that has made it a recurring stop for sneaker release trackers and city guides covering Copenhagen's footwear scene. The stores are minimalist white interiors that put the product on display against a plain backdrop.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Rotate is Birger Christensen’s Copenhagen answer to going-out clothes: sequins, minidresses and emphatic party silhouettes. The Danish label is most useful for shoppers comparing statement dresses rather than everyday basics.
Best for Party Dresses, Going-Out Wear
Copenhagen
Copenhagen's hottest outerwear — Barbara and Cathrine Saks Potts create colorful, statement fur and leather coats worn by celebrities worldwide. The most Instagrammed Danish fashion brand.
Best for The colorful fur coats, the celebrity following, and the Danish boldness.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen label that began as a 1993 jewelry shop opened by the Samsoe brothers; relaunched as a fashion house in 2000 under Peter Sextus and Per-Ulrik Andersen; now sold through 40+ own stores in 31 countries.
Best for Scandi essentials, minimalist
Samsoe Samsoe traces back to 1993, when brothers using the Samsoe name opened a small jewelry shop in Copenhagen's Latin Quarter. The label gradually expanded into premium T-shirts and knitwear, primarily menswear, before Peter Sextus and Per-Ulrik Andersen took over the brand in 2000 and rebuilt it into a broader contemporary fashion house covering clothing, footwear and accessories for men and women. The company is headquartered in Norrebro, a Copenhagen neighborhood known for its independent, street-facing retail character, and today the brand is sold through more than 40 of its own stores and over 1,600 retail accounts across 31 countries. Its aesthetic is generally described as combining Copenhagen street-style ease with a broader Scandinavian design sensibility.
Copenhagen
Storm Copenhagen was an independent boutique of avant-garde international designers and a launchpad for Scandinavian brands that went global. The shop traded for 32 years before closing in mid-May 2026; the brand and online shop continue.
Best for Avant-garde international and Scandinavian designers in the Latin Quarter for 30 years
Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen label founded in 2002, now part of DK Company, selling Scandinavian clothing, denim, accessories and seasonal collaborative collections through its current webshop.
Best for Premium streetwear; Danish streetwear and graphics
Place du Marché 2, 3963 Crans-Montana / Crans-Montana / Switzerland
On Place du Marché. The house that has been supplying the plateau for five generations — kitchen, hardware, fashion. Not a chain. Not a franchise. The Mabillard till: Victorinox engraved while you wait, the screw that holds the chalet, the cashmere for the evening. Local family, local knowledge, the practical conversation that still belongs to the village. Walk it when the errand is real — a knife, a tool, a gift, a piece of clothing — and the counter has been here longer than the brand strip on the Prado.
Best for Household, hardware and fashion — continuous family house, ~90 years / five generations
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