I Wanna (2002)
KYIV DESTINATIONS: Metrograd, Arena City and Gulliver shopping malls
Latvian tailor Jakobs Juefess was born in Riga in the mid-1800s and emigrated to the US where he re-styled himself as Jacob W. Davis. In 1870 he was asked to make a cloth that was tough enough for a woodcutter to use - and denim was born.
Today you can buy clothes in a number of locations in Kyiv. Although central and very close together, they are not all obvious. So let's go on a short shopping trip.
We start at:
At the end of the street are some stairs leading down to what looks like an underpass. Down here you will find about 500 shops, many of them selling Ukrainian goods.
For anyone looking for local bling there's the Ukrainian jewellery and icon emporium Zarina.
Dzintars http://dzintars.lv/en/ is a perfume shop that stocks a wide range of Baltic perfumes for people and homes.
Walk along a long corridor until you reach the Folkmart store on your right. Opposite Folkmart is an unobtrusive sign pointing to doors that lead to Arena City.
MANDARIN PLAZA The steps on the others side oflead you to the Arena City entertainment district. This space contains an art gallery, restaurants, bars, strip joints, art hubs and a high end shopping centre. As you emerge out of Petrograd and up the steps, you will enter the central plaza. All around you are restaurants and bars, including The Cake, The Burger and Kyiv's Vapiano Italian chain.
The next shopping destination, Mandarin Plaza, is to the right of the tower, and behind the white-tented restaurant in the centre. At the back of the white tented restaurant there is a small door that leads you into this high end emporium.
Mandarin Plaza has three stories of perfume, jewellery, and clothes stores, including Dolce & Gabbana and Vertus. An escaltor on the ground floor leads you into Kyiv's equivalent of Harrods Food Hall but more styled on KdW in Berlin, with high-end luxury goods and small taking cafes.
If you come back up to ground level and exit the main doors of Mandarin Plaza you will emerge onto a raised terrace. In front of Chanel there is a set of stairs. Look straight ahead and see a tall square glass building. That's Gulliver the next shopping mall destination.
This shopping centre is more popular and has many of the Zara chain's high street fashion stores, like Bershka, Pull and Bear and Massimo Durutti.
Each floor is themed. The basement has a high-end supermarket and cafes. The first floor is fashion, followed by women's fashion, mens fashion, children's goods, and homewares. The 6th floor has a food court and 10-pin bowling alley, while the 7th floor has a multiplex Oskar.
Le Silpo supermarket in the basement of Gulliver can be reached by the lifts or a fairly hidden escalator. Here you could complete your Latvian experience by purchasing some Riga Black Balsam from Lativa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga_Black_Balsam. This drink is a kind of Jaegermeister. It can be drunk on its own or 50/50 with a shot of Ukrainian vodka.
Shopping done!!!
Latvian embassy:
Address: 65, Ivana Mazepa St, 01901, Kyiv
Tel: +380 44 490 7030
Website: http://www.mfa.gov.lv/ua/
What other Latvian links are there in Kyiv?
Latvian fabric shopping in central Kyiv
EUROVISION COUNTRY: LatviaKYIV DESTINATIONS: Metrograd, Arena City and Gulliver shopping malls
We start at:
Metrograd or Метроград
This labyrinth of an underground shopping centre starts at the end of Kreschatik Street, next to the Bessarabskiy Market.
By main exits there are maps in Ukrainian and English. Photograph them and use your mobile phone as a guide.
Heading from Kreschatik to the next two shopping centres you need to walk forwards and slightly to the right. Down here you will find Ukrainian souvenirs.
Garmonia is a more craft-based linen store that combines Ukrainian linen and Ukraine's passion for sewing, but again with a stylish and modern twist.
Zarina
There's even a Latvian shop!
Dzintars http://dzintars.lv/en/ is a perfume shop that stocks a wide range of Baltic perfumes for people and homes.
Walk along a long corridor until you reach the Folkmart store on your right. Opposite Folkmart is an unobtrusive sign pointing to doors that lead to Arena City.
MANDARIN PLAZA The steps on the others side oflead you to the Arena City entertainment district. This space contains an art gallery, restaurants, bars, strip joints, art hubs and a high end shopping centre. As you emerge out of Petrograd and up the steps, you will enter the central plaza. All around you are restaurants and bars, including The Cake, The Burger and Kyiv's Vapiano Italian chain.
The next shopping destination, Mandarin Plaza, is to the right of the tower, and behind the white-tented restaurant in the centre. At the back of the white tented restaurant there is a small door that leads you into this high end emporium.
If you come back up to ground level and exit the main doors of Mandarin Plaza you will emerge onto a raised terrace. In front of Chanel there is a set of stairs. Look straight ahead and see a tall square glass building. That's Gulliver the next shopping mall destination.
GULLIVER SHOPPING CENTRE
This shopping centre is more popular and has many of the Zara chain's high street fashion stores, like Bershka, Pull and Bear and Massimo Durutti.
Each floor is themed. The basement has a high-end supermarket and cafes. The first floor is fashion, followed by women's fashion, mens fashion, children's goods, and homewares. The 6th floor has a food court and 10-pin bowling alley, while the 7th floor has a multiplex Oskar.
On one floor here you will find the store UA Made. This is another designer souvenir and clothing store - all Ukrainian.
Shopping done!!!
Address: 65, Ivana Mazepa St, 01901, Kyiv
Tel: +380 44 490 7030
Website: http://www.mfa.gov.lv/ua/
What other Latvian links are there in Kyiv?
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