Expensive Shopping Avenues
Browse the World's Most Exclusive Shopping Streets
By Terry Ward and Christina Breda
Whether you seek your retail fix in a vintage flea market, megamall or online, there's a shopping experience in this world for every brand of buyer.
But when shoppers in the high-net-worth range get set to spend, they take to the high streets of the shopping world -- those exclusive retail domains found on shady lanes and posh city boulevards everywhere from Palm Beach to Prague. The big-name international luxury brands are ubiquitous on these privileged thoroughfares, and often, lesser brands with mass appeal make the rent, too. But shopping the high streets of the world is also about seeking out a locale's lesser known couture.
Read on to learn about a few of Travel Channel's favorite luxury shopping locales.