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How would you rank the cities with the best high end shopping? My take.
1. NYC - No question here. They're home to the flagship of just about all big brands.
2. LA - Second only to NYC. Destinations like Beverly Hills and South Coast Plaza.
3. Miami
4. Vegas - These two are obvious after NYC and LA.
5. Chicago - Has been quiet as of late in attracting new brands, but it's history makes it just round the top 5
6-8 - Houston, Dallas, San Francisco - Close call between there, can make the case for either. All have destinations and carry most of the boutiques you'll find. Houston and Dallas aren't particularly known for being shopping destinations, but both are severely underrated shopping cities with most of the boutiques you'll find there.
9-11. Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta - One would think of Boston being higher here, but they lack so many brands as compared all the cities listed above. My theory is being so close to NYC, and the shopping capital of the world. Still, enough going to be top 10.
Honorable mention: Aspen. For a small town that relies fully on tourism, their high end shopping scene has a lot to say.
Note: These are shopping cities, not fashion impact. The terms seem to be confused often. Atlanta would be much higher here, were that what was being ranked.
I don’t shop any of these but out of curiosity which brands is Boston missing that Houston, Dallas have ?
FYI Guys, a thread was posted on this very topic just 4 years ago. Now this is 4 years back so obviously things have changed for everywhere, but it should provide the OP some perspective. Kudos to TrafalgarLaw for all of this leg work, link to thread is at the bottom.
135 New York
124 Los Angeles
108 Miami
107 San Francisco
102 Dallas
89 Las Vegas
86 Chicago
78 Houston
71 Atlanta
71 Washington D.C
65 Boston
54 Honolulu
41 Philadelphia
35 Seattle
34 Phoenix
Frankly though I find the selection of stores very weird.
Taschen is a book store, I don't know why it's on the list.
And it seems like quite a Dallas-focused list - VOD is a minor boutique, and same with Gregory's which is a local Dallas shop that looks like it sells tracksuits and bedazzeled tees for Pittbull. Aftershock London I can't even find any stores in the UK, only 1 store in Egypt and 1 in Dallas and it doesn't exactly look like it qualifies as "luxury."
Acote in SF is so minor it doesn't even have offline shops in its home country, and SF's Arthur Berens is a family run shoe store who doesn't even have a website.
If we're accepting relatively obscure local boutiques that sell items in the $100-200 price range then I think we're missing a lot of places for a lot of cities.
135 New York
124 Los Angeles
108 Miami
107 San Francisco
102 Dallas
89 Las Vegas
86 Chicago
78 Houston
71 Atlanta
71 Washington D.C
65 Boston
54 Honolulu
41 Philadelphia
35 Seattle
34 Phoenix
Frankly though I find the selection of stores very weird.
Taschen is a book store, I don't know why it's on the list.
And it seems like quite a Dallas-focused list - VOD is a minor boutique, and same with Gregory's which is a local Dallas shop that looks like it sells tracksuits and bedazzeled tees for Pittbull. Aftershock London I can't even find any stores in the UK, only 1 store in Egypt and 1 in Dallas and it doesn't exactly look like it qualifies as "luxury."
Acote in SF is so minor it doesn't even have offline shops in its home country, and SF's Arthur Berens is a family run shoe store who doesn't even have a website.
If we're accepting relatively obscure local boutiques that sell items in the $100-200 price range then I think we're missing a lot of places for a lot of cities.
That list is extremely outdated. Countless opens and closings since then.
That list is extremely outdated. Countless opens and closings since then.
I mean, it's 4 years old. Taschen was a bookstore 4 years ago, and all those random boutiques selling bedazzled tracksuits were still random boutiques selling bedazzled tracksuits 4 years ago.
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Here's the top 15 from that list:
135 New York
124 Los Angeles
108 Miami
107 San Francisco
102 Dallas
89 Las Vegas
86 Chicago
78 Houston
71 Atlanta
71 Washington D.C
65 Boston
54 Honolulu
41 Philadelphia
35 Seattle
34 Phoenix
Frankly though I find the selection of stores very weird.
Taschen is a book store, I don't know why it's on the list.
And it seems like quite a Dallas-focused list - VOD is a minor boutique, and same with Gregory's which is a local Dallas shop that looks like it sells tracksuits and bedazzeled tees for Pittbull. Aftershock London I can't even find any stores in the UK, only 1 store in Egypt and 1 in Dallas and it doesn't exactly look like it qualifies as "luxury."
Acote in SF is so minor it doesn't even have offline shops in its home country, and SF's Arthur Berens is a family run shoe store who doesn't even have a website.
If we're accepting relatively obscure local boutiques that sell items in the $100-200 price range then I think we're missing a lot of places for a lot of cities.
Even when he made that OP in the original thread he stated it might not be wholly updated or 100% accurate to date back then, and asked for input to provide corrections.
I think overall it gets the tiers right more or less with an obvious first retail tier of NYC/LA, the next tier being Miami, SF, Dallas, and a still strong yet muddled tier after that which could go any way of some variation of Las Vegas, Chicago, Houston, DC, Atlanta, Boston.
Even when he made that OP in the original thread he stated it might not be wholly updated or 100% accurate to date back then, and asked for input to provide corrections.
I think overall it gets the tiers right more or less with an obvious first retail tier of NYC/LA, the next tier being Miami, SF, Dallas, and a still strong yet muddled tier after that which could go any way of some variation of Las Vegas, Chicago, Houston, DC, Atlanta, Boston.
We can probably minus about 10 from both SF and Dallas since the maker of that list from Dallas and loves SF.
Prada (Houston only), Dolce & Gabbana, Kiton (Houston only), Breitling (Houston only), Tom Ford, Alexander McQueen (Dallas only), Balenciaga, Canali,
Just naming some. But it’s a lot. Where I didn’t specify, both Houston and Dallas have a location.
Let that out dated list there are a lot that Boston has that Houston Doesn’t. You can see it on the list clear as say. In that respect it’s a wash.
Dolce and Gabanna only very recently closed in Boston which (per Google) seems to be the result of a poorly run store. It had 2.8 stars.
Let that out dated list there are a lot that Boston has that Houston Doesn’t. You can see it on the list clear as say. In that respect it’s a wash.
Dolce and Gabanna only very recently closed in Boston which (per Google) seems to be the result of a poorly run store. It had 2.8 stars.
I did not use the list as the source. Never did. Those brands specifically there are truer. And ok like which brand? I’m not saying Boston doesn’t, have any not found in Texas, just saying it’s less than other way around.
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