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Explore Mumbai
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| ▪ Women Designer Wears |
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This is the upmarket salon in Mumbai. It specialises in chic designer and ready-to-wear women's clothes. Designers include Abraham & Thakore, Kotwara, and Ensemble founder Tarun Tahiliani. It has a select jewellery collection and a sampling of designer shirts for men. Famous shopping points are Adarsh Gill, Ecstasy, Glitterati, Araiya, Melange and many more.. |
| ▪ Silk & Saris |
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Mumbai established itself as Urbs Prima in lndis on the back of the cotton trade and it's still the country's major textile market. Apart from humble cotton, it now produces fine wools, silks and synthetic fibres. To get a taste of everything under one roof, the best place to look for any kind of textile is Mangaldas Market in Kalbadevi or nearby Mulji Jetha Market (also known as MI Market). |
| ▪ Jewellery |
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Mumbai is the
commercial centre of India's large diamond industry and a major exporter of
gems. The main retail centers are Zaveri Bazaar for gold and diamonds, and
nearby Pydhoni for silver. |
| ▪ Perfumes |
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Islamic attar (essential oil) perfume shops are found scattered along
Mohammed Ali Rd, clustered in Bhendi, Null and Zaveri Bazaars. - The Inshaallah Mashaallah has a huge range of perfumes and helpful staff that can guide you through the olfactory chaos. - The Attar Ahmed Dawood has several hundred perfumes that you can test and sniff, plus incense bark from the agarwood tree. |
| ▪ Footwear |
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There's a large number of fairly mediocre shoe stores lining Colaba
Causeway. For a much better selection try the stores clustered around Kemp's
Corner or the huge number of shoe stalls lining Linking Rd between Bandra
and Khar. - Metro is the largest of Colaba's many shoe shops. - Rinaldi Designs is a stylish shoe store selling designer men's and women's fashion shoes. - Catwalk has a decent selection of fashionable Indian and imported women's shoes. |
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Mumbai has a good selection of contemporary commercial art galleries.
Despite the arrival of Sotheby's in Mumbai and the subsequent increases in
prices, works by quality local artists are a steal. - Gallery Chemould is a small distinguished gallery, whose contem- porary artwork matches in quality - Sakshi Art Gallery is an interesting exhibition space in a converted textile mill. - Cymroza Art Gallery is such a popular exhibition space that it's rumoured to be booked out years in advance. - Jamaat is a new gallery strategically located just behind the Taj Mahal Hotel. |
| ▪ Men's Wear |
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This is an upmarket designer store selling both casual and formal menswear.
It's the place to pick up your Calvin Klein jeans and a ritzy shirt. There's
a swish tailoring department, an art gallery and a small selection of
women's clothing downstairs. - Weekender is an upmarket store selling smart men's, women's and children's casual wear. - Charagh Din makes a lot of noise about its huge selection of shirts. - Original Levi Store is a jeans shop like any other you'd find in the west. |
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Crossword is the best bookstore in the city. It has a superb
selection of Indian fiction written in English, and decent history,
politics, business, art and travel sections. - Strand Book Stall is crammed with fiction and business titles and harbours a good selection of large format art, architecture, photography and cookery titles - Nalanda has a decent selection of fiction, religious, cookery, art, travel and coffee table books. - Chetana Book Centre stocks a large collection of religious texts, plus books on yoga, Ayurvedic medicine, dance, music, art and cookery.
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