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Our itinerary starts off from the heart of the luxury shopping in Milan: Via Montenapoleone, Via della Spiga and Via Sant'Andrea, elegant streets that together with Via Manzoni, Via Borgospesso and Via Santo Spirito are the outer limits of the famous Fashion District. Here luxury is the true protagonist: you can breathe it, you can touch it!
Dazzling jewels created by the most famous name, clothes and accessories to die for, to be owned and flaunted, shoes that are works of art. Everything reeks of ostentation and the splendor of a chic, fashionable lifestyle. Let you fascinate by these!
So, let’s go and enjoy the fashion style!
Let’s start from the most famous of all the streets of fashion:
Via Montenapoleone. This is where you can find, amongst others, the
Atelier of: Gucci, Versace, Salvatore Ferragamo, Fratelli Rossetti, Etro, Loro Piana, Luis Vuitton, Prada, Valentino, Cartier and Tanino Crisci.
In Via Sant'Andrea, you can find: Chanel, Fendi, Armani, Moschino, Kenzo,
Cesare Paciotti, Hermés, Prada and Trussardi.
Via della Spiga, where you can enjoy the shop windows at: D&G, Krizia,
Sergio Rossi, Gianfranco Ferré, Bottega Veneta, Tod's, Genny, Prada, Bulgari
and Chopard.
Via Manzoni is the empire of Spazio Armani at no. 31.
This is the Giorgio Armani multi-concept store where you can admire the Emporio Armani showrooms, Armani casa, and Armani fiori. You can also sip an aperitif at the Emporio Armani Cafè, or spend an evening at the restaurant Nobu, with a dinner by the best Japanese chef to emerge in the last 10 years: Nobuyuki Matsuhisa.
The fashion dream doesn’t stop here…
For more affordable shopping, there are others important streets in the city that are almost entirely dedicated to shopping.
Corso Vittorio Emanuele links Piazza Duomo with Piazza San Babila, and begins with the Rinascente, the monument to Milanese shopping that owes its name to Gabriele d'Annunzio.
In Corso Vittorio Emanuele there are sophisticated label shops, such as Max Mara, Moreschi, Bruno Magli and Pollini, but there are also more popular labels such as H&M, Zara and Furla.
Corso Buenos Aires, that is one of the longest streets in Europe and is even more commercial: here you can find Timberland, Mandarina Duck, Benetton, Kookai and Nara Camice.
In Via Torino that stretches between the Duomo and Corso di Porta Ticinese, the average shopper's age is much lower and the casual style is sportier, with Foot Looker, Camper and Energy shops all here.
The closer you get to the Navigli area, which is the temple of street-style, the more the shop scenario changes. Corso di Porta Ticinese, a continuation of Via Torino, is the right place for those "off the wall" purchases: Custo-Barcellona, Diesel, Miss Sixteen, Gas and Fornarina stand alongside second-hand clothing, eccentric designers' boutiques, bizarre household goods, handmade clothes and accessory stores made from silk and other precious materials.
The Flea markets in Milan
Milan also has some interesting markets, especially for younger, extravagant and curious people.
Fiera di Senigallia in Milan is now an institution: every Saturday morning, Viale d'Annunzio, along the wharf, becomes a picturesque sight, full of noise, color and other smells so typical of flea markets. You can find everything here: Indian, South American and African craftwork; new and second-hand clothes, old furniture, fake art nouveau lamps, perfumed candles and every kind of essence, books, comics, records, videos and DVDs.
There are tidy stalls and messy ones where you can go looking for your bargain. The music of the Senegalese musicians is like a theme tune, as they pound on drums of all sizes, accompanying the people walking around with their frenetic rhythms.
Mercatone del Naviglio Grande takes place on the last Sunday of each month along the Naviglio Grande canal.
A large exhibition-market is set up that is dedicated to antiques: furniture, objects for the home, old books, jewellery, and lots more too. The market has 400 exhibitors, some of whom also have their own shops on the banks of the Naviglio grande.
CHEAPER IS SMART!
One of the characteristics of Milan that shopping lovers like is the fact that there are many famous-label outlets in the city center that are usually only found on the city outskirts or in the provinces.
Some of the ones in the city center are:
DIECIDECIMI
Corso Buenos Aires 59 (MM1 Lima). Garments for men and women, various brands.
DIFFUSIONE TESSILE (Max Mara group)
Galleria San Carlo (off Corso Vittorio Emanuele, near number 24 of this street, MM1 S. Babila). Opening Hours: 10.30-14.00, 15.30-19.30, closed Sunday and Monday morning. Max Mara collections from previous seasons.
ETRO
Via Spartaco 3 (bus 84). Opening Hours: 10.00-13.45, 14.45-19.00, Saturday 10.00-13.45 only, closed Sunday and Monday morning.
GRUPPO ITALIA GRANDI FIRME (Tellarini)
Via Montegani 7/a (trams 3, 15). Opening Hours: 10.00-13.00, 15.00-18.30, closed Sunday and Monday morning. Two floors, various brands (Missoni, Soprani, Cerruti, etc.)
IL SALVAGENTE
Via Fratelli Bronzetti 16 (MM1 Lima then bus 60). Opening Hours 10.00-12.00, 15.00-19.00, closed Sunday and Monday morning. Opening Hours on Wednesday and Saturday 10.00-19.00. Two floors, designer clothes for men and women, most of the major Italian designers and a few French and American brands.
I SANTI
Via B. Corio 3 (MM3 Porta Romana). Open Monday-Friday 8.30-12.30, 13.30-17.30, Leather goods, a huge assortment of bags, suitcases, accessories. On the other side of this store there is a Football Corner which offers football shirts, boots, accessories etc., official team merchandise.
OUTLET SHOES
Via Martinetti 6 (MM1 Gambara). Open Tuesday-Saturday 9.30-12.30, 15.00-19.30. Factory outlet with a selection of Italian shoes for men and women.
VESTISTOCK DUE
Via Ramazzini 11/Piazza Lavater (MM1 Porta Venezia). Opening Hours: 10.00-13.00, 15.30-19.30, Saturday 10.00-19.00, closed Sunday and Monday morning. A small store with designer garments for men, women and children.
BASSETTI
Here you can buy all the bedding and linen you need for your house.
Via Bona 7/a – 20135 Milan. Hours 9/18.
Near Milan instead, you can find the McArthur Glen Shopping City (in Serravalle Scrivia, near Alessandria), the Fratelli Rossetti outlet (in Parabiago), Dolce & Gabbana outlet (in Legnano), Timberland outlet (in Pero), and Samsonite (in Corsico) outlets, and finally Frette (in Concorezzo) and Zucchi (in Casorezzo) for bed linen.
The only thing is that this place are far from city center and hard or impossible to reach with public transportation.
So if you’d go, you’ve to rent a car, call a taxi or ask to a friend to take you there!
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