Plate M-16 · 2,224 stores · 451–600 of 2224 · curated ORBIS register
Anokhi offers hand-block-printed clothing at its Jaipur flagship and extends the range into bedding and quilts for home use. Nila Jaipur combines textile research with a retail atelier in a restored bungalow, selling indigo clothing and other textile goods. Ritu Kumar Label applies Indian embroidery and prints to contemporary silhouettes, continuing the sub-label launched by Ritu Kumar in 2002.
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.
Lauenenstrasse 18, 3780 Gstaad / Gstaad / Switzerland
Edelweiss Sport specialises in alpine racing and touring equipment, including bindings, skins and safety gear for off-piste use. Rental covers piste skis, snowshoes and touring setups, with service available for owned equipment.
Best for Touring skis, snowshoes and technical service
Promenade, Gstaad
Swiss luxury sportswear brand specializing in high-end ski and mountain fashion. Technical materials meet elegant design. The Gstaad flagship is their only standalone store.
Best for Technical materials meet elegant design
Promenade 81, 3780 Gstaad / Gstaad / Switzerland
Verified Gstaad door for family-run Gstaad multibrand fashion boutique positioned around Swiss-Alpine style and international labels.
Best for Family-run alpine luxury edit
Promenade 6A, 3780 Gstaad / Gstaad / Switzerland
Verified Gstaad door for independent clothing, jewellery, artisan scarves, bags, home objects and appointment-led styling.
Best for Gstaad-founded independent fashion and crafted objects
Promenade 17, 3780 Gstaad / Gstaad / Switzerland
Verified Gstaad door for current Gstaad store spanning ready-to-wear, leather goods, bags, shoes, jewellery, beauty and travel.
Best for Prada ready-to-wear, leather and travel pieces
Promenade 4, 3780 Gstaad / Gstaad / Switzerland
Verified Gstaad door for tonja Dimov’s lifestyle concept mixing boutique clothing, accessories, textiles and handmade pieces.
Best for Independent fashion, accessories and handmade finds
Guadalajara / Mexico
Ugga is a concept store in Guadalajara that shows Mexican design across fashion and accessories.
Best for Mexican design, fashion and bags
Guadalajara / Spain
ADÚO on Calle Enrique Benito Chávarri in Guadalajara is a multi-brand shop following current fashion.
Best for Multi-brand fashion and accessories
Guadalajara, Spain / Online
Atelier Bere Hernandez is a Guadalajara-province workshop making handmade communion, party and children's clothing, sold directly through its own online shop, including tulle communion dresses and custom vests. Designer Bere Hernandez also stages seasonal runway shows around Spain to present new collections.
Best for Children's & Occasion Wear
Zona 14, Guatemala City
Concept store in Zona 14, Guatemala City: dresses, womenswear and Latin American designer fashion. Exclusive brands from Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Peru.
Best for Fashion
Halifax / Canada
KingsPIER on Barrington Street in Halifax offers luxury vintage clothing, and the footwear to go with it.
Best for Luxury vintage clothing and footwear
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.
Germany
German women's casual-wear brand under CBR Fashion Group, headquartered in Isernhagen near Hannover (relocated from Celle); coordinated everyday womenswear made in Germany and Asia.
Best for Coordinated casual wardrobe systems for German women
Street One is a German women's fashion brand within CBR Fashion Group, alongside sister brands Cecil and Street One MEN. The company's operational headquarters is in Isernhagen, near Hannover - the group relocated its logistics and office site there from its earlier base in Celle. Street One's business is built around coordinated, easy-to-combine everyday womenswear: tops, blouses, trousers, jeans, skirts, dresses and outerwear, sold both through its own retail network and online. It also runs a distinct premium sub-line, Street One Studio. Manufacturing is split between Germany and Asia.
Tây Hồ
Spanish artists Diego Cortizas and Laura Fontan founded Chula in Hanoi in 2004, blending Spanish and Vietnamese design; garments are cut, sewn, painted and embroidered in-house, and about 75% of the artisan team has a physical disability.
Best for Colorful, artist-led garments made with local Hanoi teams
Chula Fashion was founded in Hanoi in 2004 by Diego Cortizas and Laura Fontan, who had arrived in Vietnam some years earlier and were drawn into fashion design by the country's fabrics and craft traditions. The brand takes its name from a Spanish word connoting something distinctive, and its design language merges Spanish and Vietnamese influences. Production is kept in-house at every stage - designing, cutting, sewing, painting, stamping and embroidering - carried out by a team of skilled artisans, roughly three-quarters of whom have a physical disability, a detail the brand frames as core to its social mission. Cortizas, previously a photographer, painter and musician engaged with Hanoi's art scene, has also used the boutique as a venue for exhibitions and musical performances.
Hanoi / Vietnam
Hanoi's custom ao dai atelier — Vietnamese tunic dresses combining traditional silhouettes with contemporary tailoring and ethnic textile techniques.
Best for Custom ao dai and dresses made to order
Chula Fashion operates a workshop and showroom at 43 Nhật Chiêu in Tây Hồ, Hanoi, specializing in custom ao dai production and contemporary interpretations of Vietnam's traditional dress. Founded by Diego Cortizas, a Spanish architect-turned-designer who has lived in Vietnam since 2004, Chula draws from more than thirteen years of ao dai design experience. The atelier emphasizes preservation of artisanal techniques by incorporating textiles and weaving traditions from Vietnamese ethnic minority groups (Mông, Thái, Cơ Tu peoples). Rather than generic modernization, Cortizas approaches ao dai as a historical garment evolving through contemporary design—using materials rarely seen in traditional contexts to create patterns while maintaining structural integrity. The workshop produces custom orders alongside ready-to-wear pieces, with construction emphasizing clean lines and languid draping that prioritizes ease of movement. The studio represents a philosophical shift toward handmade, slow-fashion approaches in Vietnamese design. The practice directly engages with ethnic minority communities to keep traditional weaving techniques economically viable while adapting them to fashion contexts.
Tây Hồ, Hanoi
A Hanoi slow-fashion studio using natural dyes and traditional textile processes. Established 2012.
Best for Vietnamese natural dyes, handwoven cloth and studio-made clothing
Kilomet109 is a Hanoi slow-fashion studio founded in 2012 by designer, artist, and eco-entrepreneur Thao Vu, recognized as one of the figures who helped establish Hanoi's contemporary fashion scene. The label's garments are produced by hand in Vu's Tây Hồ studio using naturally sourced, eco-friendly dyes — including traditional indigo dyeing — alongside hand-spinning, hand-weaving, and hand-stitching carried out in direct collaboration with local artisans rather than industrial manufacturing. Design details such as flexible panels, detachable elements, and convertible hoods allow single pieces to be styled multiple ways, an approach Vu has framed as central to the brand's philosophy: 'the value of our pieces is about more than their design,' she has said, describing garments as carriers of 'the culture of the people who make them and the environmental issues that are so vital to our future.' The label has been featured in Harper's Bazaar and profiled by Channel News Asia's CNA Luxury as part of a story on artisan collaboration and environmental commitment in Vietnamese fashion, shown a runway collection titled Phiêu with ELLE Vietnam, exhibited at the London Design Biennale after debuting the work in Hanoi, and been the subject of a THE KINDCRAFT interview alongside an art installation titled SUI. The brand's flagship operates from 64 Quảng An in Hanoi's Tây Hồ (West Lake) district.
Hanoi
Hanoi design brand founded in 2016, printing work by young Vietnamese artists — including the 'Thirty-Six' collection inspired by Hanoi's 36 Old Streets — onto clothing, prints and stationery.
Best for Hanoi prints of young Vietnamese artists' work on clothing and objects
TiredCity is a Hanoi-based design brand founded in 2016 with a mission to support young Vietnamese artists by putting their original artwork onto clothing, prints, postcards, stickers and other merchandise. Rather than an in-house design team, the company works directly with individual Vietnamese illustrators, licensing their work across product lines - for example, the 'Thirty-Six' collection reimagines Hanoi's historic 36 Old Streets through work by artist Giang Gió, while the 'Traditional Melodies' line reinterprets Vietnamese folk imagery through the art of Chung Pham. The brand has operated multiple retail locations across Hanoi's Old Quarter, drawing tourist and local foot traffic as a stop for wearable, artist-made souvenirs rather than generic tourist merchandise.
Eastgate
South African chain founded 1929 by Morris and Eli Ross in Johannesburg, named after London's Swan & Edgar department store; expanded into Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) in the late 1940s.
Best for Mid-range fashion, beauty, and shoes for the family
Edgars was founded on 6 September 1929 by brothers Morris and Eli Ross, who opened the first store on Joubert Street in Johannesburg. The name was borrowed from Swan & Edgar, the London department store the brothers used as a model. Sydney Press joined the company in Cape Town in the mid-1930s as a temporary employee and eventually took ownership, driving an expansion that added a second Johannesburg store on Eloff Street in 1937 and branches across South Africa. The chain crossed into what was then Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the late 1940s, with sources placing the first store there between 1946 and 1949 under Press's ownership; it was formally registered as a company in 1948. By 1960 the group operated close to 140 stores regionwide, a figure that more than doubled within five years, and it later absorbed other Southern African retail chains including Sales House and Jet Stores. This Harare branch, in the Eastgate shopping centre, continues the mid-market department-store format the Ross brothers established in Johannesburg nearly a century earlier.
Harare
Liberty Tailors was established in 1952 by Khalil Ahmed Parbhoo, known as Solly, starting in a small Salisbury storefront and now run as a third-generation family business at 33 Carsberg Ave, New Alex Park, Harare. In 2013 the tailors altered suits at State House for a wedding in President Mugabe's family.
Best for Bespoke suits and alterations
Haren, Groningen, Netherlands
Run by former Oslo- and London-based stylist Hannie Dethmers, this concept store in Haren gathers handmade and sustainable homeware and fashion with a Scandinavian leaning toward natural materials. It stocks European-made lifestyle goods and furnishings on Rijksstraatweg.
Best for Scandinavian-leaning homeware
Haren / Netherlands
Cosmé Lifestyle on Brinkhorst in Haren is a shop for fashion and beauty, as well as pieces for the home.
Best for Fashion, beauty and home
Havana
AMA is a Havana label selling handmade bags and clothing made in Cuba. Its tagline, 'Made slow, made here,' reflects its slow-fashion design approach.
Best for Handmade Cuban bags and clothing from slow-fashion label AMA
Havana
Capicúa Fashion, marca de moda de diseño sustentable, es la materialización de la visión personal de la diseñadora cubana Laila Chaaban.
Best for Fashion
Old Havana
Clandestina is an independent Havana fashion and graphic-design label founded in 2015 and associated with Cuba’s emerging sustainable-design scene. Its current range spans apparel, bags, accessories and home pieces with the brand’s distinctive Cuban graphic language.
Best for Pioneering independent Cuban fashion and design, established 2015
Old Havana
Dador is a Cuban fashion and lifestyle brand based in Havana Vieja, producing ethically made, often made-to-order clothing. Its retail store on Calle Amargura also supports professional training and secure jobs for Cuban women.
Best for Made-to-order linen dresses and ethically made Cuban womenswear
Dador runs both an online shop and a walk-in retail store in Havana Vieja, at Calle Amargura #253 between Habana and Compostela, open daily from 11am to 6pm. The Cuban brand describes itself as a responsible fashion and lifestyle label built around local development and female empowerment, framing its business explicitly around providing secure jobs, professional training and a support network for entrepreneurial Cuban women rather than treating "Made in Cuba" as a marketing label alone. Its collections run through dresses, jumpsuits, pants, shirtdresses, shirts, skirts, tops and accessories, with recent releases built around 100% linen pieces in its Malecón collection. Beyond ready-to-wear sizing, Dador offers made-to-measure tailoring: customers can visit the Havana store for an in-person fitting, or submit their own measurements online following the brand's detailed self-measurement guide for made-to-order pieces. The brand also publishes lifestyle content tied to its collections - travel journals from Cuba, notes on its design process - through a blog integrated into its site. For visitors to Havana Vieja, Dador functions as both a retail stop and a walk-in tailoring service, with staff taking measurements on-site for custom orders rather than requiring garments to be shipped back and forth.
Habana Vieja, Havana
Innātus produces its clothing in Cuba. Its garments are described as fresh and versatile, made to dress every body type.
Best for Cuban made fashion for every body type
Havana
Matty is described as a Cuban multi-brand boutique for local fashion and accessories in Havana. Its Instagram profile is the available first-party source for current labels, releases and visiting information.
Best for Cuban fashion and accessories at a multibrand concept boutique.
Helsinki / Finland
Shop offering clothing, household goods and publications, with Japanese brands represented in its catalogue.
Palopirtintie 15, 00930 Helsinki, Finland / Helsinki / Finland
Founded 1998 by Paola and Pirjo Suhonen; first Nordic house on the Paris Fashion Week calendar (2007) and the only Finnish brand on the official IMG New York Fashion Week calendar (Wikipedia Ivana Helsinki; MyHelsinki).
Best for Ivana Helsinki fashion and textiles.
Helsinki / Finland
Fashion and accessories shop featuring Mai Niemi's designs inspired by Finnish folklore and nature.
Yrjönkatu 12, 00120 Helsinki, Finland / Helsinki / Finland
Clothing-fabric specialist founded 1988, natural-fibre silks, wools, linens and cottons; Sew DIY independently visited the Yrjönkatu 12 boutique.
Best for Natural-fibre silks, wools, linens and cottons for garment making.
Highlands, Texas
Teapot Depot Gift Shop & Boutique is a boutique in Highlands. Its in-person selection includes tea room, gifts and boutique, with a focus on tea room, gifts and boutique.
Best for Tea room, gifts and boutique
District 1
Canifa is a Vietnamese fashion brand operating for more than two decades, selling clothing for men, women, and children. Its knitwear uses Woolmark-certified wool and Oeko-Tex-certified cotton and viscose fabrics.
Best for Family fashion basics — knitwear, wool sweaters
Canifa has spent more than two decades building a national fashion brand in Vietnam, competing directly against international entrants like Zara, Uniqlo, and H&M on home turf. The company's product range covers clothing for men, women, and children, with a particular emphasis on knitwear: wool sweaters made from Woolmark-certified yarn, including Australian merino, alongside acrylic-blend knits and cotton-spandex and viscose basics that carry Oeko-Tex Class 2 safety certification. Sun-protective, anti-UV jackets and waterproof, heat-retaining down jackets round out its outerwear lines. Rather than compete purely on price, Canifa has leaned on in-store technology to differentiate its shopping experience: a DYO (Design Your Own) printing service lets customers print custom designs onto garments in about ten minutes, and a C-LIVE video-call feature connects online shoppers with in-store consultants in real time. The brand's manufacturing traces back to Hoang Duong, a Vietnamese textile and garment company, and Canifa has been recognized in industry innovation awards for the technology built around its retail floor. For shoppers, Canifa functions less as a single-category label and more as an everyday, family-oriented wardrobe brand, positioned as a homegrown alternative to the multinational fast-fashion chains operating in the same malls.
Ho Chi Minh City
Ginkgo makes clothing with graphics drawn from Vietnamese culture and everyday life, sold through shops in Ho Chi Minh City and elsewhere in Vietnam. Its range includes T-shirts for adults and children alongside shirts and accessories. The brand lists more than one shop on Le Loi Street, so choose the particular branch before setting out.
Best for Vietnam-inspired graphic T-shirts and casual clothing
Ginkgo is a Vietnam-based clothing and accessories label that foregrounds original design and material choice. Its clothing range covers adults and children, moving from T-shirts and polos to shirts and trousers as well as outerwear. Accessories extend the same graphic language into bags and stationery as well as hand fans as well as scarves and caps. Fabric categories provide a second way to understand the label. Organic cotton appears separately from Supima cotton, while linen has its own place in the range. Those distinctions make fibre part of the product identity rather than leaving it buried in care information. Ginkgo's breadth is therefore held together by two consistent ideas: artwork developed for the label and an explicit vocabulary of textiles. A graphic can move from a shirt to a smaller object, but the material changes how each version feels and functions. The business also connects its product pages with a story and creation programme, giving the designs context beyond a catalogue grid. Ginkgo operates as a Vietnamese design label whose apparel and objects share visual authorship. Cotton and linen choices supplying a practical material structure.
District 1
Saigon-founded concept-store and cafe group launched around 2009 by Thai Nguyen and his wife Tib under the umbrella company L Concepts, pairing a casual restaurant with curated Vietnamese and international fashion and design across several Ho Chi Minh City branches.
Best for Vietnamese and international fashion and design from a Saigon-founded concept store.
L'Usine first appeared in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) around 2009, founded by Thai Nguyen and his wife Tib under the umbrella company L Concepts. Its format pairs a low-key cafe and restaurant with a curated retail section selling clothing, accessories and design objects from Vietnamese and international labels, typically set inside converted industrial-style buildings with exposed brick, floor-to-ceiling windows and warehouse-inspired fittings — a look the company ties to Saigon's industrial and Indochine-era architecture. The business grew from its original location into multiple branches across Ho Chi Minh City, including a flagship at 19 Le Thanh Ton that opened in July 2017. L'Usine describes its mission as curating a sense of discovery around Vietnamese design talent while also carrying international brands, positioning itself as a lifestyle destination rather than a single-category shop.
District 1
LIBÉ is a Vietnamese clothing label whose collection focuses on everyday womenswear. Its online range includes denim and dresses, with separates such as halter tops and tailored shorts. In Ho Chi Minh City, its Lý Tự Trọng shop is on the first floor at number 26, distinct from the Nguyễn Trãi branch.
Best for Vietnamese womenswear and everyday separates
157 Dong Khoi, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
This Vietnamese slow-fashion house works in two core materials, mulberry silk and organic cotton, turning both into clothing, scarves, jewelry and home textiles produced locally. Its Dong Khoi Street flagship sits alongside sister stores in Hanoi and Hoi An, Vietnam.
Best for Silk scarves and organic-cotton clothing
District 1
The New Playground opened in March 2017 as a concept mall for Vietnamese local brands, gathering more than fifty labels under one roof. The original site occupies a basement on Ly Tu Trong Street in District 1, with vendor stalls divided by wire mesh and lit in neon. Stock leans to streetwear, with graphic shirts, hoodies, denim alongside hats, bags, jewellery. A second branch trades inside Vincom Center Dong Khoi.
Best for Vietnamese streetwear labels in an underground District 1 concept mall
District 1
Ho Chi Minh City atelier founded 2011 by artist-designer Thuy Nguyen, who trained at Hanoi's Vietnam University of Fine Art and holds a PhD from Kyiv's fine-art academy; reworks brocade and silk techniques into contemporary fashion.
Best for Art-led fashion from this independent Vietnamese designer
Thuy Design House was founded in 2011 by Thuy Nguyen, a Vietnamese artist and fashion designer educated at the Vietnam University of Fine Art in Hanoi, who went on to earn a doctorate in fine art from the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv, Ukraine. The label's guiding idea is translating traditional Vietnamese textile handicraft - brocade weaving and silk work among them - into contemporary garment design, rather than treating those techniques as purely decorative or archival.
Nguyen's work extends beyond the clothing line itself. She produced and directed the film "The Tailor," which uses the ao dai, Vietnam's traditional dress, as a lens for exploring Vietnamese cultural identity and its collision with modern life. She also founded The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Ho Chi Minh City, a space dedicated to contemporary Vietnamese art, which operates alongside her fashion practice rather than as a side project. Thuy Design House's collections have been shown at Vietnam International Fashion Week and worn by figures in Vietnamese entertainment and media, part of a broader push - shared with other Vietnamese designers of her generation - to position Vietnamese craft techniques within international, rather than purely folkloric or tourist-facing, fashion contexts.
Hai Ba Trung Street, Hoi An
A bespoke tailoring studio at 635 Hai Ba Trung Street in Hoi An, founded in 2005, where every garment is cut, sewn and pressed on-site with no outsourcing. Most orders are ready within 24 hours, with international shipping to more than 40 countries.
Best for Bespoke suits and wedding attire
Old Town, Hoi An
A bespoke tailor at 117 Phan Chu Trinh in Hoi An offering custom men's and women's suits, dresses, coats and jumpsuits. Garments go through consultation, fabric selection, measurement and fitting stages.
Best for Custom suits and dresses
Old Town, Hoi An
Kimmy Tailor pairs precise measuring with a large in-house fabric library so customers choose cloth and silhouette in the same sitting rather than over several visits. Suits start around $180, a price point the atelier uses to compete with Hoi An's bigger tailoring houses on turnaround and fit rather than volume.
Best for Made-to-measure suits, dresses, and wedding attire
Tra Que Vegetable Village, Hoi An
Little Daisy Hoi An teaches hand embroidery, sewing, and crochet from a workshop in Tra Que Vegetable Village just outside the old town, and sells the linen clothing and embroidered pieces its staff and students make there. The setting away from the tourist core keeps it closer to a working studio than a souvenir counter.
Best for Hand-embroidered linen clothing and embroidery classes
Old Town, Hoi An
A bespoke tailoring workshop at 127 Tran Hung Dao Street in Hoi An, operating since 1999 and hand-cutting suits, dresses, shirts, trousers and overcoats shipped to over 50 countries. Suits range from $149 to $309 depending on fabric, including wool blends, merino and cashmere.
Best for Hand-cut suits shipped worldwide
Old Town, Hoi An
A made-to-measure tailor at 29 Nguyen Thai Hoc in Hoi An's Old Town, making suits, dresses, blouses, shirts and trousers in linen, cotton, wool and blended fabrics. Turnaround is 1 to 3 days plus one or two fittings.
Best for Made-to-measure suits and dresses
Founded in Ap Lei Chau; multiple HK locations
G.O.D. was founded in 1996 by designer Douglas Young in a small Ap Lei Chau boutique and built its identity on turning everyday Hong Kong iconography, from housing-estate tiles to Cantonese slang and neon signage, into homeware, stationery and clothing. The brand has stayed independently Hong Kong-owned even as it expanded into a multi-location retailer.
Best for Hong Kong-motif homeware and design gifts
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island
Causeway Bay's bargain street — a narrow street market of clothing, accessories, and discount goods in the heart of Causeway Bay. The cheapest shopping in one of Hong Kong's most expensive districts.
Best for The bargain prices, the Causeway Bay location, and the discount goods.
Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tung Choi Street's shopping stretch — a kilometer of stalls selling clothing, accessories, souvenirs, and toys at bargain prices. The most popular tourist market in Hong Kong, open daily.
Best for The bargain prices, the clothing stalls, and the Mong Kok energy.
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Raja Fashions was founded in 1957 by a tailor who emigrated from northern India to Kowloon and is now run by the fourth generation of the same family. The shop stocks more than 20,000 fabric options for made-to-order suits and dresses, fitted over consultations regulars often repeat across decades.
Best for Custom suiting with an extensive in-house fabric library
Central, Queen's Road Central
W.W. Chan traces its cutting technique to the Shanghainese Red Gang tailors who relocated to Hong Kong mid-century, blending English suit construction with Chinese hand-finishing since 1952. Padding, canvassing and buttonholes are still done by hand on a single straight machine per garment.
Best for Full hand-canvassed suits in the Shanghainese tailoring lineage
Honolulu
Kahala has manufactured aloha shirts in Honolulu since 1936, making it the oldest operating apparel company in Hawaii. The family-owned label still produces most of its collection locally rather than shifting production overseas.
Best for Heritage aloha shirts
Hawaii (Honolulu-founded)
Kamehameha Garment Company dates to 1936 as one of Hawaii's first wholesale apparel manufacturers and an early producer of the aloha shirt. Garments are still cut and sewn in Hawaii, drawing prints from the company's original vintage archives.
Best for Vintage-style aloha shirts
Warren Street, Hudson, NY
Milliner Behida Dolić hand-shapes straw and felt hats to order from her Hudson studio-shop, alongside a small line of ready-to-wear garments. The workshop sells directly to customers rather than through department stores, keeping production small and made-to-measure.
Best for Custom straw and felt hats
Ibiza, Spain
Bamba Adlib has sold Ibiza's signature loose, white linen Adlib fashion since 1987, making it one of the island's longest-running boutiques for the look. The shop stocks its own dresses and accessories designed to move from an Ibiza beach day to a night out without changing register.
Best for Adlib fashion dresses and accessories
Ibiza, Spain
Patricia Monjo hand-stitches espardenyes, Ibiza's traditional jute-soled sandal, under the Espardenyes Torres name and is registered with the Consell d'Eivissa's official artisan craft roster. She shows her work at the island's Adlib fashion events and the Viu l'Artesania craft fair alongside other recognized Ibizan makers.
Best for Handmade jute-soled Ibiza espadrilles
Ibiza, Spain
Designer Tony Bonet has shown collections at Ibiza's Adlib fashion parade for years and sells pieces directly through his own Tony Bonet Ibiza label rather than through resellers. His work keeps to Adlib's founding rules of natural fabrics and handcraft while updating the silhouettes each season.
Best for Contemporary Adlib fashion from a working Ibiza designer
Innsbruck / Austria
Traditional clothing shop selling dirndls, lederhosen and other Tyrolean-style garments in Innsbruck.
Innsbruck / Austria
Clothing and home-textile shop with Austrian walk, knit and loden garments, plus household and bedroom textiles.
Islamabad
This is the retail arm of the Behbud Association of Pakistan, a women-run non-profit inaugurated in 1967 that trains home-based women in hand embroidery and needlework across eleven traditional crafts. Its Islamabad outlet at F-6 Markaz sells the resulting ghararas, gowns and pouches, with proceeds funding the association's schools and healthcare programs.
Best for Hand-embroidered ghararas, gowns and accessories
Islamabad
Founded in 2004, this Islamabad-based non-profit trains women artisans from South Punjab and North Sindh in chunri, ralli and block-printing embroidery and sells the resulting kurtas, cushions and homeware under its Virsa and Phulkari lines. It also initiated Islamabad's Craft Village project, a dedicated site set aside to showcase regional artisan work.
Best for Chunri, ralli and phulkari embroidery homeware and apparel
Multiple locations, Istanbul
Boyner is a Turkish multi-brand department-store chain carrying local and international fashion, beauty and home goods. A specific Istanbul branch should replace this multiple-location record.
Best for Hundreds of local and international fashion labels at Turkey's largest department-store chain
Turkey
Turkish fast-fashion chain founded in Istanbul in 1988 by Yılmaz and Gülden Yılmaz from a 25-square-metre Kuzguncuk shop; now roughly 460 stores across more than 30 countries.
Best for Affordable Turkish fashion and denim
Koton is a Turkish fast-fashion retailer founded in Istanbul in 1988 by Yılmaz and Gülden Yılmaz, who opened their first store - just 25 square meters - in the Kuzguncuk district. The company moved into wholesale ready-to-wear in 1992, then opened its first store outside Turkey, in Munich, Germany, in 1996. In 2000 it shifted its main focus from wholesale toward larger-format retail stores. Koton has since grown into one of Turkey's largest ready-to-wear chains, operating roughly 460 stores in more than 30 countries. The company went public on Borsa Istanbul in 2024, trading under the ticker KOTON.
Istanbul, Turkey
Ay Marka launched NetWork in Turkey's ready-to-wear market in 1999; the limited-production NetWork Limited series followed from Spring/Summer 2012.
Best for Turkish smart-casual, corporate and occasion dressing
Ay Marka launched NetWork in Turkey’s ready-to-wear market in 1999. The label’s first-party history frames the name around connection and the technology era, then follows the collection from idea and design through production and presentation. Since 2012 it has widened its vocabulary through limited editions, leisurewear, occasion-focused Ceremony pieces and the technical N-Tech line. In practical terms, NetWork is a Turkish wardrobe brand spanning smart casual, formal and evening dressing rather than a single-category tailoring specialist.
Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Tomtom Kaptan Sokak is a Beyoğlu street lined with fashion boutiques, galleries and ateliers. It is an area itinerary rather than one merchant, so individual businesses need separate door records.
Best for Turkish fashion designers, concept stores, art galleries and ateliers
Maslak, Sarıyer, Istanbul
Multi-purpose venue with shops, restaurants, and events in Maslak — contemporary Turkish design, fashion, and lifestyle. The concept represents modern Istanbul's creative energy.
Best for Shops, restaurants, and events in Maslak — contemporary Turkish design, fashion
Istanbul / Turkey / Online
Vakko is a Turkish luxury house spanning womenswear, menswear, accessories, home and food. A specific Istanbul branch should replace this broad brand-level record because services and departments vary.
Best for Istanbul luxury fashion house
Turkey
Istanbul menswear brand under Vakko Holding, opened its first store in 2003 and has grown to roughly 40 stores in Turkey and abroad, pairing special fabrics with contemporary tailored cuts for business and everyday wear.
Best for Business-casual Turkish menswear with Istanbul polish
W Collection is a menswear brand belonging to Vakko Holding, the Turkish fashion and textile group best known for its flagship Vakko label. W Collection opened its first store in Istanbul in 2003, aiming at urban professional men who wanted clothing that could move between office and off-duty wear without a hard style break. Over the following two decades the brand expanded within Turkey and into a small number of international markets — reported at roughly 38 domestic stores and two abroad. The line's design approach favors special fabrics — technical blends and finished wool and cotton cloths chosen for comfort as much as appearance — worked into tailored but wearable silhouettes: suiting, shirting, knitwear and outerwear cut with contemporary proportions rather than strict formalwear rules. As part of Vakko Holding, W Collection draws on a parent company with a long-standing textile manufacturing and retail base in Turkey, giving the brand access to established production relationships. Its stores sit in shopping malls and city-center retail strips across the country, including branches in Istanbul (such as İstinyePark) and Antalya, targeting professional and semi-formal menswear customers at a mid-to-upper contemporary price point rather than mass-market fast fashion or the highest end of Turkish luxury retail.
Teşvikiye, Istanbul, Turkey
Fashion designer Rifat Ozbek turned to interiors in 2005 and, with partner Erdal Karaman, founded Yastik to make cushions from hand-woven ikats and suzani embroideries sourced in Central Asia and Uzbekistan. The Istanbul shop at Şakayık Sokak 13/1 in Teşvikiye carries limited-edition pieces with lavender folded into the down filling. Further stores followed in Alaçatı and, from 2010, in London.
Best for Ikat and suzani cushions
Yastik is the cushion house that the fashion designer Rifat Ozbek started in 2005. After thirty years on the runway, decorating his own holiday home in southern Turkey turned his attention to interiors. With his partner Erdal Karaman he created Yastik, the Turkish word for pillow, and opened a small shop near Bodrum. Own-brand stores followed in Istanbul and Alaçatı, and the label launched in London in 2010. The Istanbul shop and head office sit at Şakayık Sokak 13/1 in Teşvikiye. Yastik cushions are made in limited editions from hand-woven ikats and suzani embroideries sourced in Central Asia and Uzbekistan. The house describes these textile traditions as telling their stories through colour and weave as much as pattern. Ozbek and Karaman recombine and rework the fabrics so that they sit in either a traditional or a modern room. A handful of lavender flowers goes into the down filling of each cushion. The inner pillow is 100 percent goose feather. For its tenth year in 2016 the brand added two scented candles, Istanbul and London, developed with the perfumer Azzi Glasser. Wholesale accounts have included CFOC and Le Bon Marché in Paris and Dwell in New York. The cushions have furnished the Amanzoe in Athens and Maca Kizi in Bodrum. Ozbek was born in Istanbul and graduated in fashion from Central Saint Martins in 1977. He launched his Ozbek label in London in 1985, and the British Fashion Council named him Designer of the Year in 1988 and again in 1992.
C-Scheme
Anita Dongre's Jaipur presence offers the designer's womenswear, occasionwear and accessories, including collections rooted in Indian craft and contemporary festive dressing.
Best for Anita Dongre occasionwear, dresses, lehengas and accessories
C Scheme, Jaipur
A Jaipur flagship selling hand-block-printed clothing, bedding, quilts, and other textile goods for wardrobe and home.
Best for Hand-block-printed clothing, bedding, and quilts at the Jaipur flagship
Anokhi was founded in Jaipur in 1970 by John and Faith Singh, who set out to revitalize the city's traditional hand block-printing trade at a time when it faced decline. The Singhs built long-term working relationships with local craftspeople -- block carvers, printers, dyers, embroiderers and bead workers -- organized around a stated commitment to sustained, year-round work rather than seasonal piecework, which the company has described as a model for ethical craft-industry business practice. What began as a small clothing range grew to include bedding, quilts and other home textiles, translating classical Rajasthani block-printing patterns into contemporary silhouettes for an international market; Anokhi pieces are now stocked as far afield as England, Paris, Kyoto, San Francisco and Bogotá. In 2005 the company extended its mission beyond retail by founding the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing in Jaipur, a dedicated institution preserving the history of block-printed textiles and documenting the technique for contemporary audiences. More than fifty years on, the Anokhi archive is described by the company as representing over five decades of continuous design collaboration with the craft sector, and the Jaipur flagship on Prithviraj Road remains the clearest point of contact between that archive and the working artisans who still produce it by hand.
Jaipur
Geroo takes its name from gerua, the pink hue of Jaipur's old city, and builds its collections around hand embroidery, hand weaving, hand block printing, and hand painting drawn from Rajasthani artisan techniques. The label sets these heritage processes into clean-lined, contemporary silhouettes rather than strictly traditional garment forms.
Best for Hand block-printed and embroidered fashion
C Scheme, Jaipur
Thierry Journo's boutique selling maximalist clothing, bags, and cushion covers made with Indian textiles and craft techniques.
Best for Thierry Journo's maximalist clothing, bags, and cushions made with Indian textiles
central Jaipur
Set inside a 1940s bungalow in central Jaipur, Jaipur Modern pairs a retail floor of contemporary Indian textiles, apparel, and homeware with a café whose wall is built from 400 hand-embroidered wooden bricks, each requiring six hours of work. Its garden displays marble inlay by Agra craftsmen, and the space regularly hosts artist exhibitions and artisan workshops alongside curated designer collections.
Best for Contemporary Indian design and textiles
C Scheme, Jaipur
A textile research space and retail atelier selling zero-waste indigo clothing, cushions, rugs, table covers, stationery, and baby products. The shop operates from a restored 1940s bungalow and supports research into sustainable textile practices.
Best for Textile research space and retail atelier selling zero-waste indigo clothing, cushions, rugs
C Scheme
Parampara is a multi-designer boutique in Jaipur's Mani Mahal, founded by Colombian designer Virginia Borrero de Castro. It stocks her own De Castro label alongside ikat prints, embroidered dresses, and accessories.
Best for De Castro ikat, hand-embroidery and multi-designer Jaipur fashion
Parampara sits inside Mani Mahal on Jaipur's Mirza Ismail Road, a multi-designer boutique built around the eye of Colombian designer Virginia Borrero de Castro. After settling in Jaipur, de Castro turned her outsider's read on Rajasthani craft into a shop that mixes her own label, De Castro, with a wider roster of independent Indian designers. De Castro's own pieces lean on handloom fabric and traditional embroidery reworked into seasonless, fluid silhouettes rather than directly reproducing traditional forms, and they anchor a space stocked with vivid ikat prints, embroidered dresses, scarves, bags, and shoes from other makers. The overall feel favors ease over formality: bright color, breezy cuts, and a curatorial hand that treats Jaipur's block-print and embroidery traditions as raw material for something more contemporary rather than souvenir-shop reproductions. It is a small operation by design, open daily except Sunday from 11am to 7pm, and it rewards the kind of unplanned wandering through Jaipur's older lanes that turns up shops tourist itineraries tend to miss.
Jaipur
Founded by Archana Choudhary, Pomcha is a registered Jaipur MSME building its clothing line around the colors and heritage of Rajasthan, pairing quality fabrics with embroidery and traditional Indian craft techniques. Its collections include Rajasthan-specific pieces such as leheriya sarees, carrying the region's tie-dye textile vocabulary into contemporary womenswear.
Best for Rajasthani-inspired womenswear and leheriya sarees
C-Scheme
Indian designer brand launched 2002 as contemporary sub-label of Ritu Kumar. Western silhouettes with traditional Indian embellishments, embroidery and prints.
Best for Designer dresses, suits, and sarees
Label Ritu Kumar is the contemporary sub-brand of legendary Indian designer Ritu Kumar, launched in 2002 to reflect modern trends. The designer introduced India's boutique culture starting in 1966, opening pioneering fashion retail spaces in Delhi, Calcutta, and Mumbai. Ritu Kumar's design philosophy mingles traditional Indian techniques—hand-block printing, embroidery, textile patterns—with Western tailoring and silhouettes, creating a bridge between heritage and contemporary style. Label operates as the modern expression of this vision, offering dresses, suits, sarees and fashion pieces for men and women. The C-Scheme location in Delhi positions the brand in the city's luxury shopping district. Ritu Kumar herself won the Padma Shri award (India's fourth-highest civilian honor) in 2013 for her contributions to fashion and textiles. The label appeals to consumers seeking Indian craftsmanship expressed through contemporary forms.
Gopalbari, Jaipur
Rohit Kamra designs contemporary Indian menswear, including achkans, bandhgalas and wedding clothing. The Jaipur store suits occasion clients who need fabric selection, coordinated layers and fittings rather than ready-made casualwear.
Best for Contemporary achkans, bandhgalas, and wedding menswear
C Scheme, Jaipur
Soma sells block-printed bed linen, tableware, clothing, bags and curtains from its Jaipur bungalow store. Repeated textiles connect home and wardrobe pieces, making print scale and dye variation worth examining.
Best for Block-printed bed linen, sarees, and garments from a bungalow store
Civil Lines, Jaipur
A textile and clothing store specializing in hand-block-printed cotton and silk kurta sets, home decor, and baby goods.
Best for Hand-block-printed cotton and silk kurta sets, home decor, and baby goods
C-Scheme
Concept store of Dhora India, a jewellery and home-objects label founded in 2012 by Siddharth Daspan and Aavriti Jain, at 9 Yashwant Place, Ajmer Road, Jaipur.
Best for Indian designer clothing, jewellery and home objects
Teatro Dhora is the flagship concept store of Dhora India, a jewellery and home-objects label founded in 2012 by designers Siddharth Daspan and Aavriti Jain. The shop occupies 9, Yashwant Place on Ajmer Road in Jaipur, away from the walled Pink City's main bazaars. Dhora's name signals the label's grounding in Rajasthan's desert landscape and craft traditions, and the owners style the store as a "design theatre" meant to host ideas and artwork rather than function as a conventional sales counter. Alongside Dhora's own minimal jewellery line, the store stocks rustic furniture pieces, folk-music albums, paintings and art installations, and collaborates with other local artists and craft brands rather than selling a single house line exclusively. Aavriti Jain has described the pieces as shaped by her travels and the people she meets, a working method that keeps the collection changing rather than fixed to one seasonal drop. Teatro Dhora is listed and reviewed under its own name and address on Tripadvisor, Wanderlog and Cityseeker.
City Palace
Museum and concept store inside Jaipur's City Palace, Rajasthan, pairing local craft traditions with contemporary design; sells apparel, jewellery, homeware, stationery and palace-, Jaigarh- and polo-themed souvenirs.
Best for Fashion, craft, and palace-inspired objects at City Palace
The Palace Atelier operates as a museum-store and concept-store hybrid physically located within the City Palace complex in Jaipur, Rajasthan. It describes itself as a place where Jaipur's timeless crafts meet India's modernity, curating a wide assortment across women's, men's and children's apparel, accessories, jewellery, homeware, stationery and books, plus souvenir lines themed around the City Palace itself as well as Jaigarh Fort and polo. No founding date or additional company history is published on the site.
Jaipur
Ready-to-wear and accessories label operated inside Jaipur's City Palace by the Princess Diya Kumari Foundation, founded by Princess Gauravi Kumari and Claire Deroo. Garments, bags and home pieces are hand block-printed by women artisans trained through the foundation's craft-revival programs.
Best for Craft and fashion from local makers, women-led
The PDKF Store was founded by Princess Gauravi Kumari and Claire Deroo as the retail arm of the Princess Diya Kumari Foundation, a Rajasthan-based non-profit focused on grassroots artisan empowerment. The store operates from a space inside Jaipur's City Palace and sells ready-to-wear clothing, bags, home goods and accessories built around traditional Jaipuri hand block-printing techniques. The foundation's PDKF Artisan Collective has brought together more than 70 women artisans representing over 40 craft forms from more than 20 Indian states. Coverage frames the store as part of a deliberate effort to keep block-printing and related handwork commercially viable for the women who practice it.
Plaza Indonesia, Jakarta
Bottega Veneta’s Plaza Indonesia boutique carries intrecciato leather bags, shoes, clothing and jewellery. The official locator confirms the Jakarta door, while in-person visits support material, fit and aftercare questions.
Best for Handcrafted leather goods, bags, clothing and shoes at Plaza Indonesia.
Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta (flagship), with galleries across Jakarta
Iwan Tirta Batik continues the archive of Iwan Tirta (1935–2010), the Yale-trained lawyer who studied with royal batik makers in Surakarta and created more than 10,000 designs. The house sells menswear, womenswear, fabrics, accessories and home pieces from that archive, with bespoke tailoring; its current official store list includes Iwan Tirta Home on Jalan Wijaya XIII plus Plaza Indonesia, Plaza Senayan, Pondok Indah Mall 2 and Alun-Alun Indonesia at Grand Indonesia.
Best for Hand-drawn batik continuing a Javanese maestro's 10,000-design archive
Iwan Tirta was born Nusjirwan Tirtaamidjaja in 1935 in Blora, Central Java, and trained as a lawyer at Yale Law School. His path changed in the 1960s when a research project on the sacred court dances of Central Java drew him toward batik; rather than learning the craft from family, as most batik makers did, he apprenticed under royal batik makers inside the Surakarta palace.
Tirta spent years documenting batik traditions across Indonesian villages, publishing his first book on the subject in 1962. Through the 1970s and 1980s he is credited with an early revival of batik as fashion design, staging elaborate runway collections built on Javanese court motifs; his cloth was worn by public figures including South African president Nelson Mandela.
By his death in 2010, Tirta had created more than 10,000 original batik designs, an archive the brand bearing his name still draws from. Today the label produces menswear, womenswear, fabrics, scarves and bags, and home textiles alongside bespoke tailoring and corporate commissions, positioning itself as custodian of his design record rather than a successor designer.
Jakarta
Iwan Tirta Private Collection carries forward the house of Iwan Tirta (1935–2010), the Yale-trained lawyer turned designer who launched his label in 1973 after studying under royal batik makers of the Surakarta palace. His batik shirts were worn by heads of state at the 1994 APEC summit.
Best for Continuing batik maestro Iwan Tirta's royal-court-inspired Javanese batik legacy
Iwan Tirta, born Nusjirwan Tirtaamidjaja in Blora, Central Java, in 1935, trained first as a lawyer — earning a law degree from Yale in 1965 and later teaching at the University of Indonesia — before turning to batik preservation in the 1970s. He launched his own label in 1973, having researched and trained directly under royal batik makers connected to the Surakarta palace.
Tirta is credited with leading batik's design revival through the 1970s and 1980s, elevating a traditional craft into internationally recognized fashion. His work reached its highest public profile in 1994, when he designed the batik shirts worn by attending heads of state at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit held in Indonesia; his clients over the years included Nelson Mandela and Ronald Reagan.
Tirta died in 2010, and the Iwan Tirta Private Collection in Jakarta continues under his name, carrying his royal-court-derived motifs and design philosophy forward as a going concern rather than a museum-only archive.
Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta
Lakon Indonesia develops contemporary clothing from batik and handwoven textiles, balancing traditional surface work with modern proportions. Its collections are useful for shoppers who want Indonesian cloth in everyday silhouettes.
Best for Batik, handwoven textiles, and contemporary Indonesian silhouettes
Kemang, South Jakarta
Playdate Kemang is a concept store in South Jakarta selling retro, Y2K-styled fashion from local Indonesian labels like Lolica and Glam Mafia. The museum-like space at HOB NOB Collective Space is also a popular photo spot.
Best for Retro Y2K-inspired fashion and accessories from Indonesian labels like Lolica and Glam
Jeddah / Saudi Arabia
Homegrown Market in Jeddah is a concept store supporting Arab creative talent in fashion and home goods.
Best for Arab fashion and lifestyle brands
Multiple Locations, Jerusalem
Israeli fashion chain founded in 1973 in Tel Aviv by Aaron Castro, growing out of his mother's dressmaking business (a small shop called 'Nina'); now Israel's largest domestically owned fashion retailer, with roughly 180 stores including several Jerusalem locations.
Best for Contemporary Israeli womenswear, menswear, and accessories
Castro was founded in 1973 by Aaron Castro, a Sephardic Jew whose family immigrated to Israel from Thessaloniki, Greece, when he was a child. The company's roots go back to the 1950s, when his mother, Anina, a professional dressmaker who sewed for private clients, and Aaron opened a small corner store in Tel Aviv named 'Nina' after her. As the business grew and added a basement workshop producing ready-to-wear clothing, it was renamed Castro. The company began exporting to Europe in 1975 and went public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 1992. Castro has designed Israel's Olympic team uniforms since 1996 and, by 2013, was Israel's largest domestically owned fashion company, with around 180 stores in Israel and additional locations in Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand and Ukraine. The company has remained under continued family connection and expanded beyond its original menswear-and-womenswear base into a broader accessories offering. Castro's headquarters is now located in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv. The chain operates multiple stores in Jerusalem as part of its national Israeli retail network, in malls and shopping streets across the city.
Multiple Locations, Jerusalem
Storefronts in Jerusalem for Fox, Israel's largest clothing chain, tracing to Trico Fox, founded 1942; sells casual-basic fashion for women, men, children and babies across its Israeli and international store network.
Best for Trendy Israeli womenswear, menswear, and children's clothing.
Fox is Israel's largest fashion retail chain, tracing its roots to Trico Fox Ltd., founded in 1942. The company went public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 2002 and became Fox-Wizel Ltd., now trading as FOX on TASE. Fox positions itself around casual, everyday basics across women's, men's, children's and baby clothing, and has grown from its domestic base into an international chain with several hundred stores across roughly ten countries, including Russia, Singapore, China, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Thailand, Panama and the Philippines, alongside its home Israeli market.
Malha Mall, Jerusalem
H&M operates a current Malcha Mall store in Jerusalem carrying womenswear, menswear, childrenswear and H&M Home categories.
Best for H&M fashion and homeware at Malcha Mall
Mamilla, Jerusalem
Israel's first fashion house, founded 1954 by Ruth Dayan as a government employment project training new immigrants in weaving and embroidery. It went bankrupt in 1994 after losing state funding, then was revived in 2014 by designer Sharon Tal.
Best for Luxury clothing, accessories, and home textiles from a revived Israeli fashion house.
Maskit was Israel's first fashion house, founded in 1954 by Ruth Dayan as a Ministry of Labor employment project intended to give new immigrants agricultural work, which instead revealed pools of skilled weavers and embroiderers. The label built its identity on traditional craftsmanship, and at its height was carried by Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue, with ten stores in Israel and one in New York, including a multi-floor flagship in Jerusalem. Government funding ended in 1970, and the company went bankrupt in 1994. Two decades later, designer Sharon Tal spent roughly two and a half years working with Dayan to track down former employees and archived pieces before relaunching the brand.
Multiple Locations, Jerusalem
Israeli fashion chain founded 1993 by Eli Berkowitz and Yossi Brosh, with Serge Deri joining as CEO in 1994; roughly 95 stores nationwide, including Jerusalem locations, selling women's and men's fashion and accessories.
Best for Trendy womenswear and menswear at accessible prices from this Israeli chain
Renuar is a national Israeli fashion retail chain founded in 1993 by Eli Berkowitz and Yossi Brosh; Serge Deri joined a year later and has served as group CEO since. The company, headquartered in Rishon LeZion, operates the Renuar and Twentyfourseven store brands, selling clothing, footwear, jewelry, bags and accessories at around 95 points of sale across Israel. By 2016 it ranked as roughly the fifth-largest fashion chain in the country. Jerusalem is one of many cities where Renuar operates branches, including a location in the Mamilla shopping area near the Old City.
Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Bhandari Store deals in Rajputi poshak, odhna and handloom fabric, the layered courtly clothing still worn for Rajasthani weddings, sold by the meter or as finished garments. It ships wholesale and retail out of Jodhpur, filling a niche that purely tourist-facing boutiques rarely stock.
Best for Rajputi poshak and traditional Rajasthani textiles
Melville, Johannesburg
The shop at The Bamboo Centre, Johannesburg is a collaborative retail space shared between about 21 independent South African designers, selling women's clothing and jewelry from brands including Athena A, BMC Fine Jewellery, Campbell Armoury and Isabel de Villiers.
Best for Independent designer clothing and jewelry
Johannesburg, South Africa
David Tlale built his couture reputation from Johannesburg with runway-scale showpieces before translating that eye into ready-to-wear dresses, coats and tailoring sold directly through his own shop. Collections such as the Bhabha line carry the same structured silhouettes that made his catwalk work internationally known.
Best for South African couture-influenced ready-to-wear
Parkhurst, Johannesburg
Based in Cape Town, the brand sells dresses, tops, bottoms, knitwear, swimwear, bags and jewelry plus a menswear line, made from natural fibres in neutral tones, with current collections named "The Red Hour" and "The Compass Collection."
Best for Natural-fibre womenswear and accessories
Sandton City, Johannesburg
The Instagram profile for JAMAA lists retail locations at Artcaffé Market on Rhapta Road and at Village Market, both in Nairobi. Its story highlights feature brands including SHEKUDO, mille collines, Crystal Birch, BeachCult and Adele Dejak.
Best for Curated fashion and jewelry
Johannesburg, South Africa
Thebe Magugu designs womenswear from his Johannesburg studio that draws directly on South African heritage, including a line of lobola dresses referencing Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Venda, Ndebele, Tsonga, Swati and Pedi dress traditions. The label's Faculty Press arm publishes essays on African design history alongside its seasonal collections.
Best for Contemporary womenswear rooted in South African heritage
Hyde Park Corner, Johannesburg
Founded in 2007 by designer Tiaan Nagel, the label's main studio is at 235A Jan Smuts Avenue, Parktown North, with a flagship store at Hyde Park Corner offering made-to-measure womenswear, styling consultation and bespoke tailoring, plus works by African artists and makers. The Summer 19/20 collection drew on South African studio pottery.
Best for Made-to-measure womenswear and tailoring
Parktown, Johannesburg
Viviers Studio, founded in Johannesburg in 2019 by Lezanne Viviers, makes avant-garde, made-to-order wearable-art garments in limited editions using materials such as boiled wool, described by Vogue Italia as "precious fabrics richly decorated with designs, beads." Collections are organized by seasonal themes such as "Needle Point" and "Scarab," and the studio has been covered by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Best for Avant-garde made-to-order wearable art fashion
Kampala
Sylvia Owori sells women's fashion including office wear, off shoulder dresses, midi and maxi dresses, kaftans, netted dresses and sleeveless jackets. The label also makes laptop bags and sells through its website, sylviaowori.com.
Best for Office wear, kaftans and dresses for women
Kampala, Uganda
Yimba Fashions is a Makindye-based tailoring house that turns kitenge and other African-print fabric into custom-made clothing, accessories, and home pieces, and runs guided shopping tours through Kampala's downtown fabric markets. Beyond retail, the social enterprise trains young tailors through a six-month design program, making the workshop both a maker and a skills incubator.
Best for Custom kitenge tailoring
Kanazawa
A locally rooted department store opposite Omicho Market. Combines food halls, fashion, household goods and local retail under one roof.
Best for Food halls, fashion, and household goods opposite Omicho Market
Karachi, Pakistan
Tali stocks jewelry, home decor, serveware, clothing, and stationery made through traditional Pakistani craft techniques, working directly with artisan groups around the country rather than buying through wholesalers. The shop frames its business around paying fair wages so that regional craft skills stay in active production instead of fading out.
Best for Handcrafted Pakistani gifts, jewelry and home decor
Karlsruhe / Germany
Glore on Waldstrasse in Karlsruhe gives 190 square metres to the labels making sustainable fashion now.
Best for Labels making sustainable fashion
Kazan / Russia
FRWL in Kazan showcases clothing and accessories from over twenty-five Russian and CIS designers.
Best for Russian and CIS designer clothing
Government Offices Building 4, Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan, Russia
Run by the State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve that has managed the Kremlin since 2007, the branded store inside Government Offices building 4 sells scented candles and diffusers made specifically for the site alongside books and apparel. It operates under the Kremlin's own museum authority rather than an outside souvenir concessionaire.
Best for Kremlin-branded candles, books, apparel
Kigali, Rwanda
Designer Moses Turahirwa builds his Kigali label around collections like Ishuri ("school"), cutting culturally rooted silhouettes in bold, unconventional color palettes that read as wearable narrative rather than seasonal trend. Every piece is made in Rwanda, and the brand's creative space in Kigali offers personalized fittings alongside worldwide shipping from its online shop.
Best for Contemporary Rwandan fashion design
Killarney / Ireland
MacBees on New Street in Killarney carries more than sixty established and emerging fashion brands.
Best for Irish and international labels
Kolkata / India / Online
Pioneering Indian designer since the 1960s — block-printed heirlooms, eco-dyes from Rajasthan, and bridge between ancient motifs and fusion wear.
Best for Heritage block-printed Indian fashion
Konstanz / Germany
Pläsierchen is a shop on Theodor-Heuss-Straße in Konstanz selling pottery and toys, as well as clothing.
Best for Pottery, toys and clothing
Stare Podgórze
Kraków vintage shop founded spring 2021 by Ela and Magda as an Instagram-only project; opened a physical store on ulica Kalwaryjska in Stare Podgórze in June 2023. Curated secondhand clothing, now run by Ela and Tomek.
Best for Tightly curated vintage clothing in Kraków's Podgórze district
Bohema Vintage started in spring 2021, launched by two Kraków residents, Ela and Magda, as an Instagram-only secondhand clothing project rather than a shop with a storefront. After roughly a year of selling through social media, the pair moved the operation onto a proper e-commerce site, before opening their first physical location in June 2023 on ulica Kalwaryjska in Kraków's Stare Podgórze district, on the right bank of the Vistula opposite the historic center.
The shop's stated purpose is to promote secondhand fashion and more deliberate buying habits, framing each resold garment as diverted from landfill and given continued use rather than treated as disposable. The stock is curated rather than bulk-sourced, spanning outerwear, dresses, denim, leather pieces and accessories selected piece by piece for condition and style.
The founding team changed in early 2025, when Magda chose to pursue a different professional path and stepped back from the business. Bohema Vintage has continued under Ela, now working alongside Tomek, who joined the shop after its founding. The business still runs both its physical Podgórze location and an online store with regular drops of newly sourced pieces.
Old Town / Stradom
A Kraków vintage clothing shop with locations at Stradomska 16 and Krakowska 10, bridging the Old Town and Stradom near Kazimierz. The neon-lit interior stocks curated secondhand pieces spanning 1920s flapper dresses to 1980s statement wear.
Best for Carefully selected secondhand vintage clothing in Kraków.
Flyin' Vintage is a Kraków secondhand clothing retailer operating from at least two addresses close together on the edge of the Old Town near Kazimierz — Stradomska 16 and Krakowska 10 — putting it within walking distance of the former Jewish quarter's cluster of antique and vintage shops. The shop distinguishes itself from typical thrift stores through curation rather than volume: rather than racks organized only by size, the stock spans a wide range of decades, from 1920s flapper-style dresses through bold 1980s statement pieces, selected individually rather than bought in bulk lots. The interior uses LED and neon lighting rather than a traditional secondhand-shop look, giving the space a more boutique, nightlife-adjacent feel than a typical charity-shop-style thrift store. Prices are generally described as accessible relative to the quality and rarity of individual pieces, and the shop maintains an active social media presence to move new stock as it arrives, consistent with a small, owner-curated vintage operation rather than a chain.
Stare Podgórze
An independent vintage clothing shop in Krakow's Podgórze district at Ul. Kącik 8, having relocated from an earlier address nearby; open limited afternoon hours Wednesday through Sunday, selling curated secondhand pieces.
Best for Vintage fashion in Stare Podgórze
Lucky Vintage operates from Ul. Kącik 8 in Krakow's Podgórze district, on the right bank of the Vistula across from the historic Kazimierz quarter. Krakow shopping guides describe the shop as one of several independent vintage and secondhand outlets that have clustered in Podgórze as the district has developed a reputation as an alternative retail and creative area distinct from the more touristed Old Town and Kazimierz. According to its Instagram listing, the shop keeps limited afternoon hours — Wednesday 15:00–20:00, Thursday and Friday 13:00–19:00, and weekends 12:00–16:00 — typical of a small, owner-run secondhand shop rather than a larger retail operation. Coverage in local shopping round-ups (Miasto Kobiet, krakowfood.pl, Wanderlog) consistently places it among a short list of recommended Krakow vintage stores, and notes that the shop has relocated at least once from an earlier Podgórze address.
Poland
Polish clothing brand founded in 2013 by Krzysztof and Arkadiusz Bajolek (owner: BRANDBQ, Krakow), grown out of the earlier Reporter chain (1994); known for artist-collaboration graphic collections, with about 122 stores across Poland, Slovakia and Czechia by 2025.
Best for Artistic fashion
Medicine is a Polish clothing brand owned by BRANDBQ Sp. z o.o., headquartered in Krakow, founded in 2013 by brothers Krzysztof and Arkadiusz Bajolek. The brand grew directly out of Reporter, an earlier Polish clothing chain that had launched in 1994; in 2013 most Reporter stores were converted into 'Medicine Everyday Therapy' locations. Medicine's identity centers on collaborations between its in-house Polish designers and outside artists and illustrators, producing limited graphic-print collections. By 2025 the company reported operating 122 stores across Poland, Slovakia and Czechia with over 1,100 employees.
Poland
Polish menswear brand tracing to a 1948 Krakow state garment factory; the Vistula label itself launched in 1967, shifting focus fully to menswear the year before. Today operated by Krakow-headquartered VRG S.A., alongside sister brands Bytom and Wolczanka.
Best for Suits, Casualwear
Vistula's roots go back to 1948, when Krakowskie Zaklady Przemyslu Odziezowego was established under Poland's post-war state industrial system. The company began export production in 1961, and in 1966 discontinued women's clothing lines in favor of menswear. The Vistula brand name has been used on the Polish market since 1967. The business has since consolidated into VRG S.A., a Krakow-headquartered capital group that also owns the Bytom and Wolczanka clothing brands, plus the jewelry and watch retailer W.KRUK.
Bukit Bintang
An independent Malaysian fashion label and Kuala Lumpur shop built around relaxed, heritage-informed silhouettes. Founded in 2010; its Bukit Bintang store is on Jalan Sin Chew Kee.
Best for Independent Malaysian fashion label and Kuala Lumpur shop built around relaxed
ANAABU is an independent Malaysian fashion label. Its company, ANAABU Studio Sdn Bhd, was officially registered in 2010. Founder Ana Abu, a former civil engineer, began by selling vintage clothing online. In January 2015 the label shifted from curation to producing its own collections. The garments are built around comfort and versatility, with restrained silhouettes and grounded colour. The brand states that it does not follow seasonal trends. Culture and everyday life serve as reference points that are abstracted into form and proportion rather than copied. Collections are produced in controlled quantities. Attention goes to pattern-making and construction so that pieces can be worn repeatedly and kept. The same thinking extends to the shops, where much of the furniture is upcycled or repurposed. The label's physical stores are called Kedai Fizikal. They occupy old shophouses on Jalan Sin Chew Kee in Kuala Lumpur and Jalan Tan Hiok Nee in Johor Bahru, each kept close to its original structure with minimal refurbishment. The Kuala Lumpur shop is at 13 Jalan Sin Chew Kee in Bukit Bintang. Current lines include Mono, Essence and Isi-Isi. The range covers tops and outerwear as well as dresses, and it is cut for men and women, with a children's selection alongside.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Batik Boutique traces to 2009, when founder Amy Blair partnered with Ana, a single mother, to turn wax-resist batik cloth into wearable gifts, later formalizing as a Kuala Lumpur social enterprise by 2013-14. The label now works with more than 400 artisans from marginalized communities across Malaysia, providing fair wages and skills training in batik.
Best for Fair-trade batik apparel and corporate gifts made with Malaysian artisans
Batik Boutique began as a friendship rather than a business plan. In 2009, founder Amy Blair met Ana, a single mother in Kuala Lumpur who could sew but needed steady income; together they started turning batik cloth into small gifts, which Amy gave to family and friends before realizing there was a viable enterprise in it.
The operation moved online in 2012 and was formally incorporated as a Malaysian social enterprise around 2013-14, headquartered at The Row on Jalan Doraisamy in Chow Kit, with further boutiques opened in Putrajaya, Mont Kiara, and Desaru Coast. The company frames its work explicitly around fair wages and skills training rather than charity, paying artisans for output through the traditional wax-resist batik process.
The network has since grown to more than 400 artisans drawn from marginalized communities across Malaysia, and the label states it has produced over a million products since its early years of operation. Alongside retail and e-commerce, it runs corporate and bulk-order lines and batik workshops, extending the original Amy-and-Ana model into a wider artisan supply chain.
Bangsar
I Love Snackfood is an independent Kuala Lumpur shop for fashion, homeware and playful curiosities.
Best for Kuala Lumpur fashion, homeware, and playful curiosities
RexKL
KANOE is a Kuala Lumpur batik wear brand established in 2016 that turns textiles from across the Indo-Malaya region, made with local batik artisans, into modern everyday clothing and accessories. Most pieces are one-off prints. Its boutique occupies units F101 and F102 on the first floor of REXKL at 80 Jalan Sultan, with a Penang stockist at ChinaHouse.
Best for Handcrafted batik clothing and accessories with one-off prints, at RexKL
KANOE is a Kuala Lumpur batik wear brand established in 2016 under the tagline Child of the Tropics. It works with batik textiles gathered from across the Indo-Malaya region and with local batik artisans. The cloth is then cut into modern everyday clothing, from kimonos in straight and curved sleeve versions and wrap tops to shift dresses and batik pants. A KANOEMEN line covers open-collar and samfu shirts for men. KANOE Kids dresses girls and boys. Accessories run from scrunchies and headbands to quilted pouches and bucket hats. Most pieces are one-off prints, so a design in a given cloth is rarely repeated and the shop advises quick decisions. The brand's boutique occupies units F101 and F102 on the first floor of REXKL at 80 Jalan Sultan in the city centre. KANOE describes the building as its home. A stockist for batik accessories trades at ChinaHouse in George Town, Penang. KANOE also takes corporate and wholesale orders and gift preorders. Everything sells through its own online shop, where handmade batik pieces are listed separately from the traditional prints.
Kuala Lumpur
An independent fashion and lifestyle atelier emphasizing handmade and small-run goods. Established 2007.
Best for Handmade, small-run fashion and lifestyle goods since 2007
Kuala Lumpur
A KL-based appointment atelier and online shop for gender-fluid high fashion. Founded in 2015 and shortlisted for the LVMH Prize in 2016.
Best for Gender-fluid high fashion by appointment, shortlisted for the 2016 LVMH Prize
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Batik artist Emilia Tan runs myBatik as a working studio and gallery in Kuala Lumpur, teaching hand-painted, wax-resist batik to corporate groups, schools, and tour visitors. The studio also runs outreach programs bringing batik painting to refugees, children with HIV or dyslexia, and Down Syndrome artists.
Best for Hand-painted batik workshops with community outreach programs
Jalan Geroda 2/1, Larkin, Johor Bahru (also Kuala Lumpur and Shah Alam)
Songket Dunia sells songket and Malay formalwear through its own online shop and outlets. The catalogue is organised by garment rather than by designer, running through sampin songket, kurung songket, kain songket, kurta. Baju Melayu is split between the Teluk Belanga and Cekak Musang collars, with separate nikah and bride ranges for weddings. Handmade premium songket sits alongside ready-to-wear pieces, and orders ship to Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia.
Best for Songket formalwear and wedding attire
Kyiv / Ukraine
In Kyiv, Oseredok sells clothing and accessories from Ukrainian designers.
Best for Clothing and accessories by Ukrainian designers
Kyoto, Japan
Chiso has dressed Kyoto's merchant and aristocratic clients since 1555, when it began supplying garments to monks and nobility before moving into yuzen-dyed kimono. Its Kyoto flagship now pairs made-to-order kimono with a gallery of dyed textile art drawn from the house's five-century archive.
Best for Made-to-order Kyo-yuzen kimono
L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Vaucluse
Open since 1997, Les Colorades stocks Provençal cotton prints by the metre alongside tablecloths, runners and napkins cut from the same regional patterns. The shop rounds out its textiles with ready-to-wear pieces like Provençal skirts and blouses, plus scarves and table accessories drawn from small regional workshops.
Best for Provençal print fabric and table linens
La Porte, Texas
Sisters Brittney and Lindsey, raised in Deer Park and Pasadena, stock women’s clothes and gifts at Babes by the Bay on West Main in La Porte and drop new arrivals each Thursday.
Best for Apparel And Boutique in La Porte.
La Porte, Texas
Whimsy Boutique & More on West Main sells seasonal women's clothes, accessories and home decor from the shop floor and the website.
Best for Boutique And Gifts And Home in La Porte.
Lagos, Nigeria
This Lagos ready-to-wear label builds its collections around adire, sourcing the resist-dyed cloth directly from artisans in Osogbo who still hand-tie and indigo-dye it using techniques passed down through generations. Dresses, matching sets and trousers are cut from that fabric rather than printed imitations.
Best for Adire ready-to-wear dresses and sets
Lagos
Bespoke tailoring shop selling custom-made suits, shirts, kaftans, agbada, shoes, bags and accessories for men and women, delivering globally.
Best for Made-to-measure suits and traditional African wear
Lagos, Nigeria
Lisa Folawiyo is known for taking Ankara wax-print cloth and hand-embellishing it with beads and sequins, a technique that turned everyday market fabric into runway-recognized couture. Her Lagos label is widely credited with shifting how Ankara is perceived in African luxury fashion.
Best for Hand-beaded Ankara couture
Lekki, lagos / Nigeria
M.O.T (Mott the Label) is a Lagos-based, Black-owned womenswear brand selling vibrant ready-to-wear dresses, sets and jumpsuits designed for unconventional body types, from its address on Hon E. Adedeji Street in Lekki. The brand offers express delivery within Lagos and ships worldwide, including a dedicated US collection.
Best for Ready-to-wear womenswear, African fashion
Ikoyi, Lagos
MBN operates as a marketplace platform under the tagline "Made by Nigerians - For The World," with locations at Lennox Mall in Lekki Phase 1 and at 37 Ribadu Road in Ikoyi, Lagos. Its site also lists an AI Designer tool, funding resources, business education programs (Business Now, Making It, Academy) and gifting services under the MBN platform.
Best for Nigerian-made goods marketplace
Lagos
Nahous is a Lagos concept destination combining fashion, objects and cultural programming in one retail space. Its Instagram profile is the available first-party path for current designers, exhibitions and visiting details.
Best for Fashion, objects, and culture at this Lagos design destination
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