Dover Street Market.

By Amanda Haxton

Part art installation and part six storey designer shopping boutique – Dover Street Market is one of London’s shopping Meccas.

Dover Street Market
17-18 Dover Street
Mayfair
(+44) 20 7518 0680
www.doverstreetmarket.com

While highly regarded in many circles Dover Street Market does not attract the bustling crowds of London’s famous Portobello Market or the ethnic cuisines of Brick Lane’s shabby chic stalls. The brainchild of high end fashion brand Comme des Garcons, Dover Street Market sits apart from its touristy, sidewalk style contemporaries with six stories of cutting-edge fashion and awe inducing visual merchandising. 14 Comme des Garcons ranges and lines from Lanvin, McQueen, Givenchy, Alaïa and co. can be tried on in the tongue in cheek port-a-loo dressing rooms, while jewellery and accessories are displayed menagerie style in cages, teapots and test tubes.