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Popular Shopping | Other Shopping Tips | All Tips (55) Ethnic and cultural plurality is one of the most paramount leitmotifs in Benetton's marketing campaigns and that is one of the key reasons I've always liked this company. In their ads, you will always see all different ethnic groups intermingling... In this photo, the Benetton store in Brugge, Belgium... Leave a Comment Theme: Women's Clothes
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United Colors of Benetton is Italy's biggest fashion retail empire, with stores located in 120 countries from around the world. It's interesting the way that the Benetton stores are integrated into the surrounding architectural milieu of whatever country they are in. Shown here, the Modena store, in Emiglia-Romagna province of northern Italy... Leave a Comment Theme: Women's Clothes
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United Colors of Benetton is well known for marketing quality womenswear, but they also sell menswear and kidswear... In addition, they have some accessories available: I once bought a Benetton umbrella at one of the Paris locations... Pictured here, the Salzburg outlet... Leave a Comment Theme: Women's Clothes
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If you happen to live in the Knightsbridge area then Harrods is a useful little place to stock up on life essential - pate fe foie gras, Buluga Caviar, etc.
Seriously though, Harrods is on may people's 'must see' list, and it is an impressive store. I rememeber an episode of the 'Good life' comedy on the BBC when Margo is asked how she will celebrate Christmas. She replied "Oh, we order it from Harrods and a little man brings in round in a van". That kind of sums up the place it has among a certain section of society,
Within the store itself the Food halls are perhaps the most impressive section with their hanging hames, game, seafood waterfalls and the life. The displays and decor are very impressive.
The Egyptian rooms on the ground floor perhaps remind me more of the type of themeing you would get in an American Theme park, but the hundred of thousands Alfayed spent on them in homage to his homeland provide an impressive backdrop to the business of selling stuff.
Meanwhile, upstairs you will find the much quieter departments where the 'old money' spends its dosh - such as the schoolwear outfitters and a sports department that features polo sticks.
You will also find, on a more poiniant note, a memorial to Alfayed son Dodi and Princess Diana at the base of the Egyptian escalators.
Europe A-Z Leave a Comment Theme: Department StoreAddress: brompton road kensingtonDirections: kensington tube stopWebsite: www.harrods.com
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Commerce is thriving after the fall of the Iron Curtain in modern St. Petersburg, Russia, as evidenced by the many elite fashion boutiques up and down the famous Nevsky Prospekt, so it is no surprise to see United Colors of Benetton among them. Ahh, but what would Lenin think. "The horror! The horror!" Leave a Comment Theme: Women's Clothes
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This image shows one of the most successful blendings of any Unite Colors of Benetton store... Yes, it's the one in Mykonos, Greece! Notice the white-washed exterior, one of the key features of Cycladic architecture, which is very typical in charming Mykonos town... Leave a Comment Theme: Women's Clothes
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I am not very familiar with these kinds of shops, but I often saw questions about them in the VT-forum and therefore I post this tip here.
Freeport is the biggest such "Designer Outlet " in Austria
On my pic : another lamp in Excalibur city...
...there is a proverb in latin saying "Ad gustibus non est dispudandum" - you cannot discuss about good taste ;-))
....BUT maybe the lamp fits well to the outlet, as many of the ladies might feel like in "shopping-heaven"
Click here for a map by www.multimap.com
For Ladies :
Alberta feretti - Calvin Klein - Chevignon - Claire DK - Colloseum - Corso Italia - Diesel - Glenfield - Jackpot&Cottonfield - Jean Paul Gaultier - KARA Trutnov - Kenvelo - Lacoste - Lee Cooper - Levi's Dockers - Mandarina Duck - Marella - Marina Rinaldi - Max Mara - Mexx - Moschino - Narciso Rodriguez - OP Profashion - Pep jeans - Philosophy of Alberta feretti - Pollini - Sinequanone - Time out - Tommy Hilfinger - Velmar - Wolford
reductions are up to -50% Leave a Comment Theme: OtherDirections: Just click on the link above to see a map !Website: www.freeportoutlet.at Other Contact: info@freeport.cz
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below you will find a list of all the designer outlets especially for men - and also a link to the web-page of Freeport.
There are many restaurants and cafes as well in the large freeport-hall.
Freeport is open daily 10.00a.m. - 09.00 p.m. !!
Click here for a map by www.multimap.com
Designer Outlets for men :
Brubaker - Calvin Klein - Chevignon - Corso Italia - Diesel - Glenfield - Jackpot & Cottonfield - Jerem - KARA Trutnov - Kenvelo - Lacoste - Lee Cooper - Levi's Dockers - Licona - Mandarina Duck - Mexx - OP Profashion - Pepe jeans - San Siro - Sarar - Time Out - Tommy Hilfinger
You better check on their web-page below ! Leave a Comment Theme: OtherAddress: CZ669 02 Znojmo/Hate - Chvalovice 196Phone: +420 515 266 999Directions: Freeport is the first shopping-centre, when arriving from Austria. For Kleinhaugsdorf , you may click on the link above !Website: %Bwww.freeportoutlet.at Other Contact: FAX:+420 515 266 990
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If you are interested to buy some gifts for your friends and family, Versailles shops are very good solution for this, many souvenires, old pistols, swards, pictures, little statues, and lot more you can find in Versailles, the prices are resonable!
Murano and Burano are wonderful little islands near Venice, they are famous in making glass work of a great and beautiful quality, Sara told me this is the typical thing of the city and it is great to buy such a wonderful souvenir as a gift from Venice!
Prices though could be exaggerated, so try to negotiate!
Euro Leave a Comment Theme: OtherAddress: Europe
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I'm in the south.... honest.....
In its' quest to become a modern, trendy city, Birmingham UK, the mailbox is an attempt to create an upmarket shopping area. It claims that the the shopping centre / hotel / restaurant / parking / chewing gum holder development is the, and I quote, 'biggest mixed use development in the U.K'.
That is as maybe, but it also means that in the quest to 'cutting edge' the place suffers from the worst examples of 'developer speak'.
I'll try and translate a little for you :
1) This unique development offers a truly integrated lifestyle choice for the first time in the city's history. It brings together designer fashion and lifestyle shops, luxury apartments, two hotels, secure 24 hour parking and an array of restaurants and café bars. All in an exclusive waterside setting only two or three minutes walk from New Street station.
Means : We got anybody we could to be tennant, but we drew the line at Poundworld or Woolworths. A quick exit is available by train to London
2) Birmingham's answer to Bond Street, Wharfside Street is a 200 metre open-air pedestrian route carved dramatically through the full length of The Mailbox.
Means : Its bloody freezing when the wind whips through.
3) It features the largest collection of stand alone designer stores outside London including international brands such as Emporio Armani, Harvey Nichols, DKNY, Polo Ralph Lauren and Hugo Boss.
Means : Brummies have only just started buying the designer crap the rest of us have bought for years.
NB : DKNY actually stands for Don't Know Nothing Youth.
3) There is the wide variety of stylish restaurants and café bars on offer from Indian cuisine (Café Lazeez) and Japanese (Shogun Noodle Bar) to Italian (Zizzi) and modern new Mexican (Santa fe). Catering for all tastes and budgets, a visit to the many waterside restaurants and café bars makes a perfect post-shopping retreat.
Means : Yet more overpriced, tiny-proportioned, pretend food places to waste your money in once you have been fleeced elsewhere. Leave a Comment
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