Milan is Heaven on Earth for shopping lovers. You can find the best of everything in this city, especially everything connected with fashion and design.
Via Montenapoleone is an elegant street in Milan, famous for fashion nd jewellery shops. It is the most important street of the Milan Fashion District where many well-known fashion designers have their high-end boutiques and stores from Italian designers to all the world famous brands. It is comparable to other world-famous streets including 5th Ave in New York City, Sloane Street in London, Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles, Avenue Montaigne and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, and other famous Italian avenues such as Via dei Tornabuoni in Florence and Via Condotti in Rome.
The extravagance of past times can be experienced today in the so-called Quadrilatero of fashion, which includes Via Spiga, Via Sant'Andrea, Via Borgospesso and Via Monte Napoleone itself. The street has often been associated with the Milanese bourgeoisie and thus, it was represented in the 1987 Carlo Vanzina’s film, which depicted the yuppies from that time in an ironic way.
In Milan, nearly all shops are shut on Sundays. Non-food shops are closed on Monday mornings as well: food shops are open on Monday mornings but some closed on Mon afternoon. For Sunday shopping, there are the multimedia stores in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Piazza Duomo, Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Via Torino, a few fashion stores on Corso Vittorio Emanuele, and, near Garibaldi station, Corso Como 10.
Piazza San Babila, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Piazza Duomo (including Galleria Vittorio Emanuele) and Via Dante form a continuous pedestrian precinct with many shops, mainly clothes, but also books and media.
Other important, less central shopping streets include Corso Buenos Aires (near the station), Corso XXII Marzo, and Corso Vercelli. Via Torino is strong on fashion for young people.
The Brera district, around the like-named academy and gallery, was once the reign of artists: there are still a number of private galleries in Via Brera, Via del Carmine and Via Solferino, but these streets are now great for shopping. Via Fiori Chiari, Via Madonnina and Piazza del Carmine form another attractive pedestrian precinct with small, interesting shops, and in the evening the area is kept lively by virtue of the many bars and cafés.
Corso di Porta Ticinese, particularly in the stretch between the churches of San Lorenzo and Sant'Eustorgio, has many trendy, ethnic-type shops for clothes, furniture etc., and it has also become a focal point for young nightlife. It is close to another characteristic shopping and nightlife area, the Navigli canal district (Ripa di Porta Ticinese, Via Ascanio Sforza). On the Naviglio Grande canal, on the last Sunday of each month, there is a large antiques market with stalls selling everything from postcards to furniture.
Via Paolo Sarpi is the home to Milan's Chinatown, and so here there are many shops selling their specialities and clothes.
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