Shopping

London's top 100 shops
100 hottest shops
London has over 40,000 shops. We've been to them all, so you don't have to. These are the cream of the crop

Sales specials
January sales guide 2008
What do you mean you're skint? Think of all the money you could save if you follow our indispensable guide

Summer sales special
Bigger, better and earlier than ever – it’s our supersized guide to the summer sales worth knowing abou

Christmas shopping guide
Where to go and what to buy for everyone from your dad to your dog
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Books, art and culture
Bookworm heaven
With so much time spent travelling around London trying to get from A to B, a good book sometimes can be the only saving grace.

London's best film shops
Film soundtracks, magazines, vintage posters, memorabilia, audio/video home automation, costumes, vintage projectors, camera equipment or you could just buy a DVD.

London's best museum shops
Never mind the exhibition, what about the souvenirs?

Clothes, shoes and accessories
London's best independent boutiques
If you don’t want to be seen in the same clothes as everyone else, ditch the high street and head to London’s boutique shop

Limited edition London
There's a growing demand for collectors’ versions of trainers, toys, clothes, and even make-up

London's best shoe shops
Good shoes are as hard to find as good dentists. From crocodile shoes to catwalk trends - here's our list of top places to find the capital's most select footwear

London's craftsmen and women
Can cottage industries survive and thrive in the big city? These folk use age-old skills to make exquisite clothing and accessories

Food shops and markets
Best for food
London has a mix of large and smaller niche places to offer all food enthusiasts; from John Lewis’ food hall to a nice little deli off Holloway Road, London has it all

London's Best Bangers
Discover the joy of sausages and where in London you can find a wide range on offer; from Polish sausages to Spanish blood and the good old -fashioned British banger

London's best food markets
The best places for seasonal fruit and veg, artisan cheeses, small-batch preserves and humanely reared meats

Home and garden
London's best garden centres
Get your hands dirty at London's best shrub dealers.

London's best markets
London's disappearing markets
The supermarket takeover is threatening to trample over Upton Park's 100-year-old Queen's Market

London's best markets
Where to pick up the cheapest batteries, the best antiques, the most chic vintage fashions and everything in between

London's best food markets
The best places for seasonal fruit and veg, artisan cheeses, small-batch preserves and humanely reared meats

Car boot sales in London
The prime locations to set up your wallpaper pasting table or rummage through other people's junk

Department stores
Inside Selfridges
Behind the scenes of the retail institution that sells the world’s most expensive sandwich, has Europe’s busiest doors and formerly had a rifle range on the roof

Area guides and shopping centres
East London shopping guide
The best east end emporia from City Road to Clapton, plus the area's secret shops

Elephant & Castle shopping centre
Time Out readers voted it London’s ugliest structure, but does this iconic building have any saving graces?

The Brunswick Centre
Thanks to a £24 million facelift, the Brunswick Centre is now somewhere you'd actually want to go

Antiques and vintage
London's antique shops
Crammed with a kaleidoscope of vintage treasures, rediscover these historic shopping enclaves

Shop vintage in Camden
Buy from the Camden pioneer whose timeless sense of style has led to a fashion institution

Music
Specialist musical instrument shops
Whether you’re after a reconditioned Steinway or a brand new sitar, there’s a shop in London to fulfill your needs

20 London record shops
Screeching, bangin’, strumming, bowing, blowing and pumping… name the music and London’s got the shop

Charity shops
London's best charity shops
Don't you hate that friend who rummaged through a few boxes in Oxfam and found a vintage Biba dress for a tenner? Use our guide and that could be you.

Ethical shopping
Are corporations' ethical trading claims bona fide? Time Out sorts the saints from the sinners

Sports shops
Where to buy a bike in London
The most reliable chain stores, best local options and destinations for city-centre emergencies

Fancy dress
Angels costume stock sale
Fancy owning 007’s tux or Benny Hill’s beret? Costume supplier to stage and screen is now holding auctions

Where to get fancy dress
Dressing up is all the rage! From superhero’s to dead actresses we tell you where to get the look

Erotica
London's best fetish shops
There are few kinks or vices that the capital doesn't cater for. Here's our list of the London's top erotic emporiums

Global fashions, foodstuffs and more
Shop the world
Why board a plane when you can sample Indian fabrics, Portuguese pâtisseries, French fashion and Japanese homeware without leaving the M25?

Fashion Week blogs
London Fashion Week blog 2007
Round-up of last year's key trends

London Fashion Week blog 2006
A run down of what was hot and what was not in 2006

Shops with history
London's historic shopping arcades
Piccadilly's elegant malls house some of London's most interesting and exclusive emporia

London's oldest shoppes
London abounds with historic shops from apothecaries and chandlers to milliners and brolly-makers