Fashion

london

If there's a label worth having, you'll find it in central London. Shopping options are well scattered, although some streets are renowned for their specialities. Oxford St is the place for High Street fashion, the chains of Regent St crank it up a notch, while Covent Garden has a cluster of urban and street labels.

Kensington High St has a nice mix of chains and boutiques while you should hotfoot it to Neale St in Covent Garden if you're looking for shoes. South Molton St in May-fair is the strip for urban chic from local and london international designers, while Bond Street is the fat end of the high-fashion wedge. Knightsbridge draws the hordes with the quintessentially English department stores.

Carnaby St, which will be forever remembered as the centre of '60s fashion, has a few good new stores among the tourist tack.

The twee shops and stalls inside the old market building at Covent Garden tend to be pricey and tourist-oriented, but the streets running off it - particularly around Neal's Yard - are crammed with groovy street labels and alternative boutiques.