Hamburg – a mecca for shopping

What with its passageways, shopping centres, strings of delicious shops and numerous cafés, Hamburg is a place where you can enjoy shopping whatever the weather!

In Hamburg’s city centre, trendy designer labels compete in a restricted space for the favour of an international clientele. Hanseviertel, Europapassage, Jungfernstieg, Mönckebergstrasse and Spitalerstrasse exercise a magical power of attraction on all those who want to take something home with them besides pleasant memories.

Fashion trends are being created in the Schanze and Karo districts. The creativity of the designers in both quarters seems practically unlimited. If you set out on a tour of discovery here or in Ottensen or St. Georg, you are looking for exotic creations a little bit off the mainstream. In these quarters life is vibrant, and alternative shopping is the rage.

Individual and over the top, these trendy districts are a showcase for the up-and-coming generation of Hamburg’s fashion world. Above all in the streets around Marktstrasse you can happen upon small studios and showrooms where talented artists are developing their exclusive collections. Many of these young labels have already been successful on the international stage.

After an extravagant shopping excursion, Hamburg residents and visitors to the city like to congregate on Schulterblatt or Lange Reihe. Above all in the summer months this is where life goes on at a giddy pace in the many cafés, bars and restaurants – where the principal object is to see and to be seen!