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If
you want to spend time shopping in Rome, there is an endless choice
of places for you to choose from: from the most famous designer
labels in Italian fashion that dominate the more elegant city streets
to the outlets outside the city, to the old craftsmen’s shops
and laboratories and the flea markets. The most famous fashion streets
in Rome are three parallel streets that all meet up with Via del
Corso, starting from Piazza di Spagna or near there: Via Condotti,
Via Borgognona and Via Frattina. The most famous of the three is
Via Condotti, which owes its name to the channels that carried water
to the Agrippa thermal spa baths. Today it is one of the most elegant
streets in the world, lined with the shops of the most famous fashion
labels such as Bulgari, who opened
his "atelier" here in 1905, Hermés, Cartier, Ferragamo
and Battistoni, a historical Roman atelier of male tailored fashion
that was a favorite of the Duke of Windsor. In Via Borgognona there
are other famous names: Ferré, Fendi, Laura Biagiotti, “the
queen of cashmere" and Gai Mattiolo, a young Roman fashion
designer who has recently entered the elite of famous designer labels.
Finally, in Via Frattina, there are the ateliers of Tiffany, Versace
and Byblos. Many streets in the old city center are still full of
traditional Roman craftsmen’s shops: old-style carpenters
and expert restorers are still concentrated in Via dei Cappellari.
Via dei Sediari has been famous for hundreds of years for chairs,
armchairs and other household objects made from wickerwork. The
expert wrought iron forgers’ laboratories can be found in
Via degli Orsini. Via Santa Dorotea is the place to go for vases
and other painted ceramic pieces. In Via dei Gigli d'Oro you can
find reproductions of antique mosaics. Rome’s antique shops
are located in Via dei Coronari, Via Giulia, Via Margutta, Via del
Babuino and Via del Pellegrino.
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