But also on the don't-miss list was Topshop, the cavernous fashion emporium in Oxford Circus that has become a mecca for disposable chic.

Earlier this year Ms. Cahill visited the meatpacking district to investigate the hullabaloo surrounding Jeffrey, the fashion emporium, two blocks away on West 14th Street.

In addition to her work as a photographer, Cowan is a fashion designer and the owner of Devotion, a shop and online fashion emporium.

Mrs Lagarde would be reassured to see the bustling Galeries Lafayette, the Berlin branch of the French food and fashion emporium.

"I bought my bar mitzvah suit there, and later I was one of several vendors to sell them their first ties," he said, recalling the international fashion emporium's origins as a men's discount store.

Galeries Lafayette's opening of the Paris store in March will free two floors in the main store across Boulevard Haussmann to be turned into a vast fashion emporium aimed at young shoppers.

R Map Lose yourself for hours in this enormous Lebanese fashion emporium, with hard-to-find labels and snappy drag for twirling on the dance floor.

"Not everyone is using a decorator," said Faith Hope Consolo, a commercial real estate broker, explaining the rush to lease retail space in town, with furniture stores running neck and neck with fashion emporiums.

The neighborhood has many trendy European-style bistros, fashion emporiums and boutiques that showcase Japan's best-known designers.

Los Angeles is a shopper's paradise, from the funky antiques stores of La Brea Avenue to the glittery international boutiques and name-brand fashion emporiums of Rodeo Drive.