Clothing is organized by a designer, and everything from tailoring to streetwear has a home here. Oh, and don’t forget to check out the Offspring sneaker concession on the second floor.

400 Oxford St, Marylebone, W1A 1AB

Dover Street Market

The brainchild of Comme des Garcons’ leading lady and avant-garde fashion heavyweight Rei Kawakubo, Dover Street Market is like John Lewis reimagined by Hieronymus Bosch.

Located in the 31,000sq ft former Burberry HQ, this five-story madhouse is packed to the rafters (very decoratively, mind you) with cooler-than-cool streetwear, high-end fashion and more weird art installations than you can shake a lobster telephone at. Just make sure to set a few hours aside to fully immerse yourself in the weirdness.

18-22 Haymarket, SW1Y 4DG

Liberty

You know it as the source of that jazzy, floral “going-out shirt” you hopefully binned not long after you started reading FashionBeans. To Londoners, however, it’s so much more. We defy anyone to walk past that beautiful Tudor-revival building without curiosity getting the better of them.

Inside, shoppers can expect to be hit by an olfactory wall of perfume, before a swirling wooden staircase leads them downstairs into menswear heaven. Expect cult labels like A.P.C., Acne Studios and Norse Projects as well as high-end pieces by everyone from Gucci to Dries Van Noten.

Regent St, Soho, W1B 5AH

Harrods

In a city teeming with very big shops, being the biggest is no small achievement. At the moment, it’s luxury department store Harrods that holds the title. Not only that, it’s actually the largest department store in Europe and even has its own postcode.

Unsurprisingly, the menswear department is well worth a visit for the usual mix of high-end fashion, premium casualwear and suiting, albeit on a much more epic scale. Don’t forget to take a compass.