The ''Quadrilatero della moda'' (; literally "fashion square"), or Via Montenapoleone fashion district, is a high-class

shopping district A shopping street or shopping district is a designated road or quarter of a city/town that is composed of individual retail establishments (such as stores, boutiques, restaurants, and shopping complexes). Such areas will typically be pedest ...

in the centre of the Italian city of

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, characterised by the presence of numerous boutiques and related

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outlets which represent most of the world's major

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s. The sides of the square, located to the south of the arches of Porta Nuova, are formed by

Via Montenapoleone Via Monte Napoleone, also spelled Via Montenapoleone, is an upscale shopping street in Milan, Italy, Europe's most expensive street (2022) and the third most expensive street in the world . It is famous for its ready-to-wear fashion and jewelry sho ...

(SW), Via Manzoni (NW),

Via della Spiga Via della Spiga (; literally "Alley of the Ear") is one of the Italian city of Milan's top shopping streets, forming the north-east boundary of the luxurious ''Quadrilatero della Moda'' (literally, "fashion quadrilateral"), along with Via Monte Na ...

(NE), and

Corso Venezia Corso Venezia is a street in Milan, Italy. It is one of the city's most exclusive and elegant avenues, being part of the city's upscale '' Quadrilatero della moda'' shopping district, along with Via Montenapoleone, Via della Spiga, Via Sant'Andr ...

(SE). Streets inside this area include Via Borgospesso, Via Santo Spirito, Via Gesù,

Via Sant'Andrea Via Sant'Andrea is a luxury shopping street in Milan, Italy, forming part of the ''quadrilatero della moda'', along with Via Montenapoleone, Via della Spiga, Via Manzoni and Corso Venezia. Shops *Alba Eloisa d'Alessandro *Antonio Fusco *Ballant ...

, Via Bagutta, and Via Baggutino. The zone extends in practice also to the north-west of Via Manzoni with Via Pisoni, and to the south and west of

with

Corso Giacomo Matteotti The ''Quadrilatero della moda'' (; literally "fashion square"), or Via Montenapoleone fashion district, is a high-class shopping district in the centre of the Italian city of Milan, characterised by the presence of numerous boutiques and related re ...

(this last meets

Piazza San Babila Piazza San Babila is a city square in Milan, Italy. The square had always existed as a "largo" since Roman times, as the road to Bergamo would cross the walls of the Roman city. In medieval times as the city expanded beyond its Roman walls the h ...

), Piazza Meda, Via San Pietro all'Orto, and Via Verri.

Streets and squares

Corso Giacomo Matteotti

Fashion shops include: * Abercrombie & Fitch

Corso Venezia

Piazza Meda

Fashion shops include: *

Hugo Boss Hugo Boss AG, often styled as BOSS, is a luxury fashion house headquartered in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company sells clothing, accessories, footwear, and fragrances. Hugo Boss is one of the largest German clothing companies, ...

Calvin Klein Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, he also has given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and ...

Piazza San Babila

Fashion shops include: *Bagatt * Boggi *

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*Gusella *Nadine *North Sails *

Sisley Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedicatio ...

*Valextra

Via Bigli

Scappino Scapino, or Scapin, is a zanni character from the commedia dell'arte. His name is related to the Italian word "scappare" (to escape) and his name translates to “little escape artist” in reference to his tendency to flee from fights, even those ...

Via Borgospesso

Fashion shops include: *Altomani & Sons *Andrea Pfister *Antichità Silbernagl *Cyrus Company *daDriade *Galleria Silva *Giuliano Fujwara *

Laura Biagiotti Laura Biagiotti (; 4 August 1943 – 26 May 2017) was an Italian fashion designer, and the founder of the House of Biagiotti. Early life Biagiotti was born in Rome on 4 August 1943. Her mother Delia Soldaini Biagiotti was a successful dressm ...

*Pinco Pallino *Tween DdM * Versace Homme

Via della Spiga

Via Manzoni

Via Montenapoleone

Fashion shops include: *

Gianfranco Lotti Gianfranco Lotti is a designer leather handbag company based in Florence, Italy. Its founder and owner is Gianfranco Lotti. History Gianfranco Lotti opened his first workshop in Florence in 1968, after a long apprenticeship. Lotti opened his fir ...

Via Pisoni

Fashion shops include: * Armani Casa * Armani Privè *

Poltrona Frau Poltrona Frau is a furniture-maker founded in 1912 by Sardinian-born Renzo Frau in Turin, Italy, headquartered since the early 1960s in Tolentino, Italy and specializing in leather seating for interior and automotive applications. The company nam ...

Via San Pietro all'Orto

Fashion shops include: *

Jimmy Choo Datuk Jimmy Choo Back from ...

*Bagutta

Via Sant'Andrea

Restelli Guanti

Via Santo Spirito

Fashion shops include: *Borbonese * Balenciaga *

Stella McCartney Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer. She is a daughter of British singer-songwriter Paul McCartney and the late American photographer and animals rights activist Linda McCartney. Like her parents, McCa ...

Via Verri

Fashion shops include: *

Alexander McQueen Lee Alexander McQueen CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992, and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. His achievements in fashio ...

*Baldinini *

Berluti Berluti is a prestigious leather maker that manufactures menswear, especially the leather finishing of calfskin, kangaroo leather and alligator skin in its production of shoes and boots. It makes leather belts, bags, and wallets, as well as b ...

Burberry Burberry is a British luxury fashion house established in 1856 by Thomas Burberry headquartered in London, England. It currently designs and distributes ready to wear, including trench coats (for which it is most famous), leather accessorie ...

* Canali *

DSquared² Dean and Dan Caten (né Catenacci; born December 19, 1964) are Canadian fashion designers, radio personalities, and businessmen. They are identical twin brothers and the founders and owners of Dsquared², an Italian luxury fashion house based in ...

Etro Etro is a family-managed Italian fashion house founded in 1968. It is mainly known for its paisley patterns, which the company started making in 1981. History Etro was founded in 1968 by Gerolamo "Gimmo" Etro as a textile design company. By the t ...

Profumi *

Gucci Gucci (, ; ) is an Italian high-end luxury fashion house based in Florence, Italy. Its product lines include handbags, ready-to-wear, footwear, accessories, and home decoration; and it licenses its name and branding to Coty, Inc. for fragrance ...

Jil Sander Heidemarie Jiline "Jil" Sander (; b. 27 November 1943) is a German minimalist fashion designer and the founder of the Jil Sander fashion house. Early life and education Heidemarie Jiline Sander was born in Wesselburen, Nazi Germany on 27 Nov ...

* John Richmond *

Nautica Nautica is an American apparel brand of Authentic Brands Group featuring primarily men's, women's, children's apparel and accessories, as well as home, watches, and fragrance. Nautica was founded in 1983 by clothing designer David Chu and a par ...

*Oxford *

Tom Ford Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched his eponymous luxury brand in 2005, having previously served as the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Ford wrote and direct ...

Zegna Zegna () is an Italian luxury fashion house. It was founded in 1910 by Ermenegildo Zegna in Trivero, Biella of the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. As of 2021, the Group is a public company. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Hist ...

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Streets and squares

Corso Giacomo Matteotti

Corso Venezia

Piazza Meda

Piazza San Babila

Via Bigli

Via Borgospesso

Via della Spiga

Via Manzoni

Via Montenapoleone

Via Pisoni

Via San Pietro all'Orto

Via Sant'Andrea

Via Santo Spirito

Via Verri

See also

References