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Manchester in Fashion – High-street shopping in Manchester

Manchester has a fabulous selection of fashion stores, with great womenswear, menswear and much more on offer. See our comprehensive guide to shopping for fashion in Manchester city centre, if you are shopping on a budget or looking for the latest designer fashion to add to your wardrobe. Being from Manchester I have shopped all the places listed below and have select some of the best fashion oulets Manchester has to offer whatever your budget.

Manchester High-street fashion – Budget Guide £0 – £50.00:

Primark – Market Street Manchester:

Great for shopping for your wardrobe fashion essentials that you may not want to spend much money on, such as plain T-shirts, cardigans, tights, knickers and trousers. Primark is also great for cheap dresses to wear on a night out, their styles are always bang on fashion trends and you can get some quite quirky styles.

TKMAX - Market Street Manchester:

Designer fashion on a budget, good for investment pieces such as coats, handbags, sunglasses and jeans. Brands I have seen on sale include Paul Costelloe, Chloe, Betty Barclay and Calvin Klein. Most fashion items are one offs so you will need to spend sometime shopping for something you like, this can be all part of the fun.

Arndale Market – Arndale Centre Manchester:

Shopping on a budget the Manchester Arndale indoor market has alot to offer. It is good for shopping for women’s and men’s fashion footwear, with fashion brands on offer at discounted prices. It also houses an vast number of fashion hairdressers and nail salons, offering budget priced deals.

Manchester High Street Fashion – £50.00 – £100.00:

Manchester Arndale Centre – £50.00 – £100.00:

Arndale centre Manchester has recently had a stylish new face-lift. It is light, spacious and great for high street shopping. On offer are a range of well know high street stores including Next, Top shop, Monsoon, New Look and Miss Selfridge. Here you can shop for your every fashion need, dresses, skirts, coats, shoes at reasonable prices.

Manchester Market Street:

In the heart of Manchester City Centre and shopping area. Market Street Manchester is a pedestrianised street with high street shops on each side. Here you will find of Manchester’s biggest department stores catering for womenswear and menswear. Marks and Spencer’s at one end and Debenhams at the other. In between stylish stores such as Zara, All Saints and Mango can be found.

Manchester High Fashion – £100+

Manchester Selfridges Department Store:

Selfridges destinctive yellow bags are as much a must have fashion statement as the shopping inside. Window shopping at Selfridges is an experience in itself, designer perfumes in wonderful shaped bottles, artistic womenswear displays and a champagne lounge with faboulous views of manchester. Selfridges is a shopping paradise filled to the brim with designer menswear and womenswear labels. Labels by great British Designer can be found here, including names such as Stella McCartney, Paul Smith, Mc Queen and Matthew Williamson. If paying in the region of three thousand pound for one of their dresses is a fashion purchase to far, Selfridges do also have concessions housing highstreet brands such as All Saints, Oasis and Top Shop.

Manchester House of Frazer:

House of Frazer also know as Kendals is Manchesters oldest department store. Situated in an attractive art deco style building,with concessions housed over eight floors. Womenswear, menswear, underwear, childrenswear, you can get it all with a designer label here. Brands range from young and funky, including Diesel and Miss Sixty. To the mature and stylish, such as Country Casuals and Channel. Psss next door to Kendals is a small shop called The Dress Agency, near Gregs. Here you can buy designer clothing seconds, I saw a Bannan Republic dress in there for a bargain price of thirty five pound.

Manchester King Street:

King street situated near to House of Frazer, King street is a mingle of fashion designer brand such as Mulberry, Jaeger and high-end high-street stores such as Hobbs and Karen Millen. It has retained its historic charm, with fashion labels housed in small orginal Victorian built shops. At the head of King street is Higher King street the historic financial banking district of Manchester. Housed here in magnificent buildings are truly exclusive designer fashion labels such as DKNY, Armani and Vivenne Westwood. If you are in the mood for spicing up your love life, here you will also find Agent Provocateur started by the son of Vienne Westwood.

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