Run by two fashion designers, this vintage store exudes cool. Retro sunglasses, leatherwear, floral dresses, shirts, hats -just about any item of clothing,...

A newly opened space at the back of a Nişantaşı passage, Nelia produces funky, chunky jewellery with a tribal twist. In-house designer Banu Kosifoĸlu works...

Istanbul's answer to London's Camden Market. Go for mounds of tacky jewellery and plentiful kitsch imported from India and Africa. You might also happen to...

All types of luggage and accessories for the traveller can be found at this shop along Istikal. The prices are good, but you might need to look elsewhere if...

This is the best-known, biggest and most popular of the city's street markets, so be prepared to mix it up with middle-class matrons and beetle-browed...

Friendly Aziz makes his own jewellery from antique beads. The folk pieces are inspired by a mix of Turkish and Central Asian influences. Earrings, beautiful...

Kilim accessories are everywhere these days, but what you'll find here - from belts and footwear to bags, purses and stationery - is a cut above the rest....

At the bottom of a quiet cobbled street off Istiklal Caddesi, designer Simal Bülbül's eponymous store sells her delicate leather and fabric clothes. She...

A favourite with Turkish young professionals looking for quality lingerie at affordable prices.

Sophisticated jewellery with an Anatolian slant. Designs are drawn from the countless civilisations that have peopled Anatolia from palaeolithic to Ottoman...

Sophisticated jewellery with an Anatolian slant.

Vakko was once Turkey's authority on fashion and still has huge cachet locally. Aside from some eye-catching window displays, the store has lost much of its...

Vakko was once Turkey's authority on fashion and still has huge cachet locally. Aside from some eye-catching window displays, the store has lost much of its...

Turkey's oldest department store started life as a humble shop behind the Spice Bazaar in 1950. Today, it's the closest thing Istanbul has to a real...