Dream Shopping Destinations

Shopping is always a pleasure, often a luxurious indulgence. For most of the women out there, even shopping for a simple scarf will take tons of research, walking up and down shopping lanes or scrolling through shopping pages at the speed of light and they won’t easily back down until they have found the perfect piece. When it comes to shopping for your wedding, it is all the more exciting as well as nerve wrecking. It is often difficult and hard to find the perfect piece of clothing or ornament that suites your individual taste, relevant with the trend, and also keeping your idea of dream wedding alive. Here is a list of the dream shopping destinations around the world which is sure to make your shopping spirit fly high!

 

- Kiran Srinivasan

Paris

The city of romance, luxury and exquisite fashion. Paris will remain the most fashion forward destination in the world. It is the best place to shop if you want to get the show stoppers straight from the runways. In Paris you can find labels from budding designers to the most prestigious names in the industry like Versace. ‘The Galleries Lafayette’ or ‘Le Printemps’ on Boulevard Haussman (8th area) houses hundreds of local and international brands and also have an entire floor dedicated to lingerie. (P.S You can do your honey moon shopping as well).

If you’re after a bit of couture or just want to see how the other half lives then you must visit the ‘Rue Saint- Honoré’ (1st area) where you’ll find the likes of Givenchy, Versace and Christian Louboutin. This is also where you’ll find Collette, a must-visit concept store. Avenue de Montaigne near the Champs Elysees is another street dedicated to luxury brands. Le Marais (3rd and 4th area) is a gorgeous historic quarter bustling with vintage shops, unique jewellery and up and-coming French designers. The ‘Rue des Rosiers’ and ‘Rue des Francs-Bourgeois’ are particularly trendy. Les Puces (litterally means ‘fleas’) on the northern end of Paris is an iconic market is the best place to unleash your bargaining tricks and you can get anything here from antiques to luxury hand me downs.

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