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Los Angeles is a great place to spend a lot money. From Forever 21 to high fashion outlets, L.A. has every store a consumer could possibly want. This list collects some Los Angeles shopping centers, malls, and busy pedestrian shopping streets. The locations are organized as listed below:
Day 1 -- Santa Monica
Day 2 -- Westside
Day 3 -- Hollywood/Miracle Mile
Day 4 -- Downtown
Day 5 -- San Fernando Valley
Day 6 -- Pasadena and Eastside
[Photo of Santa Monica Place courtesy of dj drüe]
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Santa Monica/Beach Cities
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Third Street Promenade
Contact:
- (310) 393-8355
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- Third Street Promenade & Broadway
- Santa Monica,CA90407
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This well-known and popular destination is a pedestrian-only area on 3 blocks of Third Street (from Wilshire to Broadway) in Santa Monica, The attractions here include many stores, restaurants, and street performers. My favorites spots are the art book stores: Arcana and Hennessey & Ingalls. At the Broadway end of the promenade is Santa Monica Place, a modern open-air mall.
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Santa Monica Place
Contact:
- (310) 394-5451
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- 1453 3rd Street Promenade
- Santa Monica,CA90401
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Shopping in a breeze. Happy hour at sunset. Dinner under the stars. Savor the moment at Santa Monica Place - a modern shopping and dining destination located in the heart of Santa Monica. The contemporary mix of stores, visionary restaurants and artisanal Market are designed with you in mind. Flavorful fashions and foods to complement your distinct tastes. To inspire your sense of originality. For you to live interestingly.
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Fred Segal
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- (310) 458-9940
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- 500 Broadway
- Santa Monica
- Santa Monica,CA90401
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They've become an L.A. institution, these breezy collections of ultrahip boutiques linked like departments of a single-story fashion maze. Shops include the latest apparel for men, women, and toddlers, plus lingerie, shoes, hats, luggage, cosmetics, workout/lounge wear, and a cafe. Fred Segal also has major star-spotting potential (Matt Damon, Cameron Diaz, Sandra Bullock, and Kate Hudson are regulars; David Duchovny reportedly met his wife here when he asked her to help him pick out a suit). The original Fred Segal complex (opened in 1960) is at 8118 Melrose Ave. in West Hollywood (tel. 323/655-3734), but either is a rewarding shopping foray.
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Santa Monica Main Street Shopping District
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- 4th Street and Broadway
- Santa Monica,CA90401
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This small, bustling cluster of shops has helped build Santa Monica's reputation as a shopping Mecca. At the Santa Monica Main Street Shopping District you will find both: famous and not-so-famous clothing stores as well as a variety of funky furniture shops and upscale gift stores. A perfect one stop stretch for all your shopping needs. Credit cards accepted vary by store.
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Malibu Country Mart
Contact:
- (310) 826-5635
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Location:
- 3835 Cross Creek Rd.
- Malibu,CA90265
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If you have had enough of lying by the ocean and feel the need to spend some money, the Malibu Country Mart is the perfect place to visit. This is a higher end shopping center with nice small designer-oriented stores as well as a range of restaurants. Next door is the similar Malibu Lumber Yard. Leave the large malls behind and do your shopping at these premiere open-air locales.
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Malibu Lumber Yard
Contact:
- (310) 456-7395
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- 3939 Cross Creek
- Malibu,California90265
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This is a small shopping center that features stores like James Perse, Maxfield, Intermix, La Perla, Alicia + Olivia and a couple more. There is also a Crumbs cupcake place here. Be forewarned that this mall is not that big at all! There are 3 saltwater fish tanks in the common area and Malibu Country Mart (more upscale shops) is next door as well.
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Westside
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Brentwood Country Mart
Contact:
- (310) 394-9225
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Location:
- 225 26th Street
- Santa Monica,CA90402
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The Brentwood Country Mart was created in 1948 as a Westside version of the Hollywood Farmers Market, basically a locale that combined dining options and stores into one convenient location. Today the place remains a small, high-end shopping center with a great food court.
Stores and boutiques here include, among others: Sugar Paper, Calypso, Toy Crazy, Broken English (jewelry), James Perse, Malia Mills, Turpan, Post26, and of course the Brentwood General Store.
Food and drink options here are: Barney's Burgers, Caffe Luxxe, Farmshop, Frida Taqueria, Reddi Chick, Sweet Rose Ice Cream, and Edelweiss Chocolates,
In its early days, star power was harnessed to help market this place and many star-biz luminaries were also regulars here. The place continues to be a celebrity hot-spot, if only because so many famous people live nearby.
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Westside Pavilion
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- 310/474-6255
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Location:
- 10800 W. Pico Blvd
- Los Angeles,CA90064
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Located at the intersection of Westwood and Pico boulevards on the Westside of Los Angeles, this shopping center has the only Nordstrom in the area and attracts a very style-conscious crowd with a taste for the finest in women's fashions, handbags, and shoes. It's within easy access of the I-405 and I-10 freeways, major arterials to the L.A. area. It boasts a roster of over 160 specialty shops, such as BCBG, Aeropostale, Guess, Aldo, Banana Republic, and Nine West as well as a food court and its own Westside Pavilion Cinemas. This mall is big on community and kids' events, and is host of the annual Night of Delight, a wine and food sampling.
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Westfield Century City
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- 310/277-3898
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- 10250 Santa Monica Blvd
- At Ave. of the Stars, Century City
- Century City,CA90067
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Since Westfield acquired this open-air shopping center in 2002, it's undergone a massive $150-million renovation in an attempt to revitalize this lackluster location into the area's premier shopping, dining, and entertainment destination. Along with a sorely needed face-lift, Westfield added 30 new shops, 7 new restaurants, a new flagship 15-screen AMC movie theater, and 260 luxury condominiums. Anchored by Macy's and Bloomingdale's department stores, it's located on what was once a 20th Century Fox back lot, just west of Beverly Hills. Among the nearly 200 offerings are Ann Taylor, J. Crew, bebe, and Crocs.
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Rodeo Drive of Beverly Hills
Contact:
- 323-769-3600
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- Rodeo Drive & Santa Monica Boulevard
- Beverly Hills,CA90213
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Find any designer label you can think of shopping on Rodeo Drive. There are more than 100 stores featuring the high-end stylings of famous designers like Versace, Cartier, Jimmy Choo and plenty of others. Clothing, jewelry, beauty items, and even home furnishings can all be found on this one very expensive street in Beverly Hills. After a long day of shopping, get some rest at posh hotels nearby, including the Beverly Wilshire and the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Helms Furniture District
Contact:
- +1 213 624 7300 (Tourist Information) / +1 800 228 2452 (Toll Free)
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- 8758 Venice Boulevard
- (between Robertson and La Cienega Boulevards)
- Los Angeles,CA90034
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This venue traces its beginnings back to the 1930s, when it started out as a humble bakery that shut shop in 1969. Now owned and transformed by Walter N. Marks Inc., the lot has emerged a premier shopping complex, with various retailers, including the huge HD Buttercup, two restaurants-Beacon and La Dijonaise-and a Jazz Bakery, no less! Visit this neighborhood landmark for a day of pleasant shopping. Hours and credit cards vary by store.
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The Beverly Center
Contact:
- (310) 854-0071
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Location:
- 8500 Beverly Blvd
- At La Cienega Blvd
- Los Angeles,CA90048
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When the eight-story Beverly Center opened on L.A.'s Westside, there was more than a bit of concern about the impending "mallification" of Los Angeles. Loved for its convenience and disdained for its penitentiary-style architecture (and the "no validations" parking fee), Beverly Center contains about 160 standard mall shops, including the wildly popular H&M, and even a few boutiques that are open by advance reservation only ( so L.A.). It's anchored on opposite sides by Macy's and Bloomingdale's department stores. You can see it from blocks away, looking like a gigantic climbing wall.
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Hollywood/Miracle Mile
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Robertson Boulevard
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- Robertson Boulevard near Beverly Blvd
- Los Angeles,California90034
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By far the trendiest place to shop in Los Angeles is Robertson Boulevard. Adjacent to the famous Melrose Avenue, Roberston is a prime spot to shop both well known designers and smaller boutiques. In fact, some are calling it the "New Melrose." Many celebrities shop this tree-lined stretch of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, and it's easy to see why. As of late plenty of posh boutiques have popped up all over the place as well as cafes and restaurants. Popular places to have lunch while shopping include Ivy, Cuvee, Michel Richard Patisserie for dessert or the vegetarian-friendly Newspaper Cafe. Shopping includes Kate Spade, Kitson, Madison, Chanel, Lisa Kline, Curve, Vionnet, Alice & Olivia and more.
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The Grove
Contact:
- (888) 315-8883
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Location:
- 189 The Grove Dr
- W. 3rd St. at Fairfax Ave., Hollywood
- Hollywood,CA90036
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Located at the eastern end of the Farmers Market, this massive 575,000-square-foot Vegas-style retail complex is one of L.A.'s most popular megamalls.
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Melrose Avenue Shopping District
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- +1 213 624 7300 / +1 800 228 2452 (Toll Free)
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- Melrose Avenue
- Los Angeles,CA90046
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If you want to see everything that L.A. shopping is known for, there is no better place than here, especially on a Sunday afternoon. You can find expensive showrooms between La Cienega and Crescent Heights (Fred Segal, Miu Miu). If you are not a brand freak, you can hit one of the reasonably priced boutiques. You really haven't "done L.A." until you have been here. Credit cards accepted vary by store.
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Hollywood & Highland
Contact:
- 323/467-6412
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Location:
- 6834 Hollywood Blvd
- Hollywood
- Hollywood,CA90028
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A sure sign that this formerly seedy section of the city is on the fast track to recovery is the massive $615-million "entertainment complex" at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Street (hence the name). Surrounded by souvenir shops and tattoo parlors, the gleaming 8 3/4-acre center contains all the top-end merchants -- Ann Taylor, Louis Vuitton, bebe -- as well as studio broadcast facilities and the gorgeous Kodak Theatre, home of the Academy Awards (really, you'll want to take a peek at this theater). The mall's other centerpiece is Babylon Court; designed after a set from the 1916 film Intolerance, the open-air space attempts to re-create an over-the-top golden-age movie set, complete with giant pillars topped with 13,500-pound elephants and a colossal arch that frames the HOLLYWOOD sign in the distance. Parking isn't a problem, as the six-level underground lot can cram in 3,000 cars.
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Larchmont Boulevard
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- +1 213 624 7300 (Tourist Information)
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- Between 3rd Street and Beverly Drive
- Los Angeles,CA90004
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The wealthy Hancock Park area of the city is just the place to hang out if you want to spend some time shopping with friends, and Larchmont Boulevard runs right through it. Covering the stretch from 3rd Street and Beverly Drive, and just a couple of miles east of Highland Avenue, the boulevard is populated with eating houses, cafes and a myriad shops. From antique to general stores, you will find almost everything you could want out here. After a few hours, when the stomach calls, it's time to head into one of the eclectic restaurants for a delicious meal, followed by coffee at Starbucks. Note: hours and credit cards vary by establishment.
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Downtown
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LA Fashion District
Contact:
- +1 213 488 1153 (Office)
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Location:
- Olympic Boulevard to Pico Boulevard
- Los Angeles,CA90079
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The Fashion District sprawls over 90 blocks of downtown Los Angeles, and is just the place to be if you are looking for bargains or wholesale material. This section of the city is absolutely crammed with stores selling designer clothing, shoes, accessories, textiles and even flowers at unbeatable rates. Other bric-a-brac on display includes toys, lingerie, CDs, prom gowns and kids wear. Over 1,000 such retailers show off their wares at the area's prominent Santee Alley, a flea market of sorts, which always dons a festive appearance. Weekends are particularly busy, with great discounts of up to 30 percent. Major wholesale marts like the California Market Center and Gerry Building are also located in the vicinity, so make sure you load up before you head over. Hours of operation and credit cards may vary by store.
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Jewelry District
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- +1 213 622 3335
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- Between Hill Street and Broadway, from 5th to 8th Streets
- Los Angeles,CA90071
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If bling is your thing, you have come to the right place! This downtown area is simply crammed with jewelry shops and boutiques. Gold and silver accessories, precious stones, designer ornaments are all on display for those who want to splurge. Touted as the largest of its kind in America, the Jewelry District boasts of around 5,000 businesses and an impressive turnover. Rings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces and more in a variety of sizes, shapes, colors, designs and metals-it's easy to get carried away. A selection from one of the stores here is bound to catapult you higher up the social ladder at the next society bash! Remember: credit cards and hours of operation differ from store to store, so call before heading over.
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San Fernando Valley
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The Americana at Brand
Contact:
- (877) 897-2097
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Location:
- 889 Americana Way
- At Colorado Blvd. and Brand Ave
- Glendale,CA91204
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The developer of this site, Caruso Affiliated, is responsible for a number of these well-designed and consumer-friendly outdoor shopping areas. These "mediated public spaces" are somewhere between a mall and a public area, though in the final analysis they have more in common with a mall. A wide variety of higher end shops are located at Americana, including a Tiffany outlet and an H&M store. There is a nice outdoor area and a big fountain. Much as the Grove is located very close to the Beverly Center, Americana is immediately next the older Glendale Galleria.
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Glendale Galleria
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- (818) 246-6737
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Location:
- 100 West Broadway, Suite 700
- Glendale,CA91210
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Faded shopping centers are my cup of tea. I love the dated-ness of them, and the evidence of the human wear on the environment. Brand new shopping center seem to contrived and manipulative to me and there is nothing like questionable design from the '70s and '80s to cure that particular malaise.
Open in 1976, the Glendale Galleria has definitely seen brighter days and to me that is part of its charm. The anchor stores here are Macy's, Target, and JCPenney and this foundation does keep the place humming along.
The mall has had a hard couple years recently. General Growth Properties, the owner of this place, just came out of Chapter 11 protection in November of 2010. Caruso's Americana moved into the neighborhood recently, drawing a lot of shoppers away from the Galleria. Part of the fall-out from this is that Nordstrom recently switched allegiance and its facilities will now be part of the 15.5 acre American expansion in 2013.
At this there are plans for remodeling of the Galleria during the summer of 2011. The hope for this place is that the Americana and Galleria can be a joint shopping destination. At this point walking between the two adjacent shopping centers is a very interesting... read more -
Universal Citywalk
Contact:
- 818/622-9841
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- Universal Center Dr., Universal City
- Universal City,CA91608
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Designed to resemble an almost-cartoonish depiction of an urban street, Universal CityWalk gets a mention because it's unique. Situated next door to Universal Studios -- you must walk through it if you use Universal City's main parking structure -- CityWalk is dominated by brightly colored, oversize storefronts. The heavily touristed faux street is home to a number of restaurants, including B. B. King's Blues Club and the Saddle Ranch Chop House. In terms of shopping, CityWalk is not worth a special visit -- it's got the ubiquitous Abercrombie & Fitch, Guess, Sunglass Hut, and the like. Still, kids will love the carnival atmosphere and the Warner Brothers store.
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Pasadena and Eastside
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Paseo Colorado
Contact:
- 626/795-8891
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- 280 E. Colorado Blvd
- At Marengo Ave., Pasadena
- Pasadena,CA91101
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This open-air mall in the heart of Pasadena is ground zero for local shopaholics. Anchored by Macy's, the two-level 3-block monolith houses about 140 retailers and restaurants (but few men's fashions), a Gelson's market, a fitness center, a full-service day spa, and a 14-screen multiplex theater. What's unique about the Paseo is the dozens of offices, apartments, and studios built atop the mall, which allows residents easy access to all the daily necessities a city dweller needs to survive.
- Destination(s): Beverly Hills, Glendale, Los Angeles, Malibu, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Studio City, West Hollywood
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