Lively and elegant, intimate and wide, here are the streets where shopping becomes an experience not to be missed…
Sale time, shopping time. This is one of the times of the year that tempts us the most. Irresistible are the offers and so much is the desire to get out of the house and return home like a perfect Pretty Woman. Two thousand shopping bags, a credit card with no ceiling could make anyone in time of sales. There is no place in the world where one can resist from shopping shoppers know it well, and even in the most forgotten place in the world they have the knack of bringing home something nice. There are, however, streets in the world that really do look like Toyland, those colorful with storefronts, eye-catching for clothing, make-up, design, in short everything you can buy. Every city has one or more of them, we have made one ranking of the most unmissable ones….
FiFth Avenue, New York: always and forever the number one shopping destination.
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It’s number one and maybe forever will be Fifth Avenue as we Italians call it, the most famous shopping street in the world. It is the most important artery in Manhattan that divides the city into two parts and its walk is one of the must-see experiences once you vi in New York City. Over the past 150 years, it has also been transformed from an aristocratic residential area to the most famous shopping street of all. It is home to the most important haute couture boutiques as well as the iconic Tiffany & Co. jewelry store, famous thanks to the movie starring Audrey Hepburn’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Don’t Miss Bergdorf Goodman the luxury department store also loved by many celebrities.
Rodeo Drive, Los Angeles: for a Pretty Woman-like shopping experience.
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It is located in the affluent neighborhood of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles the second-largest shopper’s paradise and is really the neighborhood’s flagship. There is no person in the world who does not know Rodeo Drive because this is where you dictate trends, meet celebrities, fall in love with luxury, and step in and out of one store after another. The palm-lined street offers the most elegant and the most innovative collections, the most legendary hotels and award-winning restaurants. Most of the spaces are designed by prestigious architects and the most beautiful window displays the creative fruit of the best visual designers who make them true works of art, often creating artist-store collaborations. More than 100 stores are there to really make everyone happy.
Oxford Street, London: for a vibrant and fun shopping experience
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After New York City, perhaps the city that most brings to mind the shopping is London. At any time of the year it is able to tempt and amaze with its boutiques and even tiny stores. Oxford Street is surely the shopping street that knows how to become the longest and most beautiful promenade in the English capital. About 2 km all big brand stores, this is where you can find the famous Topshop, Gap, River Island, as well as large and historic department stores such as Selfridges, John Lewis, House of Fraser and Marks and Spencer. It is by walking here that you can buy anything and find yourself at one of the most vital and mind-blowing intersections in the world that between Regent Street, famous for its illuminations and Oxford Circus.
Avenue des Champs Élysées, Paris: romantic and scenic shopping street in the Ville Lumière
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If London is vibrant, Paris is romantic and exclusive in shopping, it is the city of elegance and research, and this is also seen in its most iconic shopping street avenue des Champs Élysées, the continuation of the rue de Rivoli the city’s most precious jewel box. Its undisputed symbol is the imposing Arc de Triomphe, monument commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte which almost seals everything you encounter on this bright and elegant street. La street is divided into two sections, the first that near the Place de la Concorde, which is home to 4 iconic upscale restaurants, among others, and a second stretch that is a veritable parade of haute couture boutiques, elegant car salons, several cinemas, and the famous Lido, one of the most famous Parisian cabarets.
Via Montenapoleone, Milan: the heart of fashion a true treasure trove of trend and fashion
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Also theItaly has its Shoppin streetsg and one of those that really should not be missing from the list is via Montenapoleone in Milan. According to a research carried out in 2023 even this street is to be considered one of the most luxury streets in the world and one of the most curated that manage to turn shopping into a memorable experience. It is not only the boutiques themselves therefore that make it one of the most exclusive, but precisely the appeal of the street which is certainly not among the largest, but rather one of the most intimate, and that is precisely what makes it more valuable than others. In this street of the Fashion Quadrilateral there is no shortage of one of the world’s most famous designer stores.
