So, concerning Vienna, I discovered two great places to shop - two clothing stores to make you swoon, pretty stuff.
One is
Park, in the Mondscheingasse (moonlight alley, appropriately), Neubau. Beautiful, light, spacious store, with carefully sorted individual racks with very nice fashion. Very helpful boy to guide your way. They also have a selection of interesting style books and magazines. I particularly liked the Ann Demeulemeester stuff.
Luckily for me, they didn't have any of the items I liked best in my (awkward) size (long and thin). Good. Because it
was, really, clearly above my budget - and yet there were several items i would have bought without looking at the pricetag anyway.
<sighs>
Definitely the kind of store that reminds you when shopping becomes fun (I used to hate clothes-shopping). Namely, when you discover the pricy shops (and have money).
There's several interesting shops in a handful of streets around there, actually, off from the Mariahilferstrasse where you find all H&M's and Zara's. There was a woman's store in the Lindengasse, for example, that had some purty-looking stuff in the window too, a few shops before you get to
Stil where they sell designer sneakers (a shop that, unlike Park, also has a
cool website).
The other shop is downtown, in the Landskrongasse. Called
Song. (Yes, everything is onesyllabic dontcha know). Much smaller, just two small spaces, one womens fashion the other mens/mixed. Cute (see
picture). Very friendly man who helps you (who in turn made Susannah swoon).
They have suave, stylish stuff - I bought a shirt and a long-sleeved tee I really liked, both from Martin Margiela - and also some wacky stuff that makes you LOL. Clever oddball stuff from Walter van Beirendonck and a Berlin brand called terrorist something.
All still pretty pricey - they had one beautiful long black womens coat for 1,600 euro - but for the regular stuff at least less expensive than Park.
Still, even that was way irresponsible. But fun ;-)
