Dusseldorf Shopping

Koenigsallee is the most sophisticated shopping mile in Germany, and is also considered one of the world's grandest luxurious boulevards. The street is a veritable who's who in the fashion business. If you seek a more old-Germany feel, with modern individual shops thrown in, the place to go is Altstadt. Here you can find the spice-witch (Kraeuterhexe), Jack Jedoen's carnival shop, eclectic items at Globales Shopping or the mustard expert at the Duesseldorf senfladen. For a break in between shops, the area is rife with quaint beer breweries where your next beer comes before have had a chance to finish your previous and where waiters join
you at the table to regale you with stories.

Schadowstrasse is the high street in Germany with the biggest turnover. It is dominated by large department and clothes shops, and leads directly into Koenigsallee.

The international fashion scene is attracted to Düsseldorf like moths to a flame. Almost every famous designer has his own shop in the metropolis on the Rhine, others live and work in Düsseldorf, and several of them are prize winners.

Such as Tristano Onofri. The designer from Rimini, Italy, has been living and working in the fashion city on the Rhine for almost 30 years. After all this time, he is still convinced that the metropolis on the Rhine is the fashion city par excellence.

Sabine Schumacher finished her studies at the Modeschule Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf fashion school) in 1995. Her first collection, which she presented at the Igedo just one year later, was awarded a prize for excellent design by the Ministry of Economy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1997 she has been selling her own label from her premises on Comeniusstraße.

Peter O. Mahler makes avant-garde fashion with extraordinary cuts and extravagant materials from paper to linnen, which is sold by 150 retailers in Europe, the USA and Japan. He has a show-room on Cecilienallee.

Renate Harvans designs her collection in a studio on Jahnstraße - simple and to the point the day fashion, elegant and exqusite the evening robes.

Hanns Friedrichs, the most senior, to some known as the 'Dior from the Rhine', has now retired from the catwalk. In his time, he regularly traveled to Hollywood where he dressed Joan Collins, a.o., for some sequences of the Denver Clan.