If you just arrived to this new city, you will probably feel identified with one of these 2 options:
- you moved to the city with a few luggage or ;
- your things will arrive with the moving company. So….here is the news: This will take a while!
In both cases, you will need to go shopping to survive the first couple of months. Don´t panic! to help you, we will give you some useful tips:
-The easiest, popular and fastest way to shop what you need (or want) in Santiago is in shopping malls. So, here below we give you a list of the most visited malls.
- Parque Arauco. Las Condes
- Alto Las Condes. Las Condes
- Costanera Mall. Providencia
- Portal La Dehesa. La Dehesa
In there, you will find a lot of affordable fashion international brands. Some examples are:
- The GAP
- H&M (only in Costanera)
- Forever 21
- Topshop
- Zara
- Banana Republic
Apart from that, Chile has very important National department stores with great variety of products (from clothes to furniture) good prices and practical shopping experience.
The best well known are:
- Paris
- Falabella
- Ripley
At last but not least,we have brands we love that are:
- Rapsodia
- Bimba y Lola
- Jazmin Chebar
- Prune
- Paula Cahen D´anvers
- Etiqueta Negra
Apart from malls, you have some new and beautiful shopping areas, but normally you won´t find the commercial brands.
About this, we will continue talking in the next posts, but with this information you have your survival fashion kit ready to go!
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