Current Time
Currency
Weather
Advertisement
shopping
Hamburg shopping
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.
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
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
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
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
RSS Feeds