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A maze of high-end malls cover the Jungfernsteig waterfront, a shopper's Venice crisscrossed by canals and colonnaded walkways, including the Alsterhaus, a department store on a par with the best of its kind in New York or Paris (16–20 Jungfernsteig; 49-40-359-010; www.alsterhaus.de). If you're in the market for the sort of German engineering embodied in Krups coffeemakers and the like, be aware that discounts are almost unknown in Germany, and electricity conversion can be a problem once you're back home.
Offering up three full floors of luxury minimalist womenswear, this boutique was local designer Jil Sander's flagship and supposedly carries the label's entire...more
Advertising its stock-in-trade as "English men's clothing," Hamburg's old-time Anglophilic side finds its highest (and stiffest-upper-lip) expression in this...more
Located in the Rote Chilehaus, a prewar Expressionist building with tall, angular lines, this cult emporium's mission is to sell the most "authentic" version of...more
Located in an ancient building straight out of a Brueghel painting, this boutique is where Hamburg's young rich buy up fashion-forward names such as Comme des...more
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