Danish design
DAY - Birger et Mikkelsen
This design house of 5 national and international designers makes glamorous, yet classical clothing of high quality. This concept store only carries women's fashion, lingerie and home accessories. Their clothing line for men can be found in both the Illums and Magasin department stores.
Malene Birger
MTV calls her the "Queen of Fashion in Copenhagen", and her store is one of the best woman's fashion stores in Scandinavia.
Area
Carries furniture's, lamps and accessories by both Danish and international designers
Bruuns Bazaar
Along with Munthe+Simonsen, this design house is front runners in an ongoing Danish fashion revolution. There are two stores here; Number 8 is for the ladies, while number 9 is for the gents.
Samsoe & Samsoe
This store mainly sells clothing by the designer of the same name, making classic clothes with an edge, but also carries small collections of other designers with the same theme. Both for girls and guys.
Birger Christiensen
This store has been running since 1869, and is most famous for its exclusive skins and furs, from Scandinavia and Greenland. But they also sell some of the worlds top fashion brands like Hermes and Channel.
House of Amber
Known historically as 'Nordic Gold', amber is a quintessential Scandinavian jewelry. And there is no better place to get in than in this store, housed in a 17th century house, right at the beginning of Nyhavn. The shops also runs a museum with an extensive collection of rare finds.
Nørgaard
Has long been one of the main fixtures of Strøget, these two stores, right next to each other - Nørgaard på strøget for women, and Mads Nørgaard for men. The stores won the AOK Copenhagen award in 2007, for both best woman's and best men's shopping. And the best part is that there is something here to fit anyone's pocket.
Lysberg, Hansen & Therp
The fact that this store has been running for almost a 100 years, and they are purveyors the the royal court, should give you some idea of the place. It is not all classics though, new designs are well represented in the collection.
Bang & Olufsen
A flagship store for Danish electronics producer Bang & Olufsen, who makes exclusive design products of high quality - like TV's, Stereo's, Speakers and home integration products. They are well known, for the high quality of sound in their products.
An option for bringing home some unique and useful souvenirs is buying furniture, lamps or industrial design from one of Copenhagen's own superstar architects and designers like Arne Jacobsen, Poul Henningsen or Børge Mortensen, who helped to turn Danish Design into a world wide brand in the first half of the 21st century - but don't expect it to be cheap, there are other options however, Kitchen accessories by Bodum and glassware by Holmegaard are some options that can be found in many stores throughout Copenhagen.
Interiors
Other options are Illums bolighus and the Danish Design Center store, both listed above.
Bodum
Another flagship store is Bodum's shop on strøget. This Swiss/Danish company, produces well designed kitchen accessories, their signature french coffee press, has become synonymous with the company.
Fashion
The Danish fashion industry has long been lagging behind the interior and furniture design industries, where Danish design is a recognized brand in itself. But this has all started to change in recent years, and Copenhagen is fast establishing itself as a fashion center. Many of the important names in the industry, runs their own independent stores in central Copenhagen.
Dansk Møbel Kunst
Dansk Møbelkunst is a gallery of first class vintage design. Specialized in Scandinavian furniture design from 1920 to 1975, with particular focus on Danish design classics.
Munthe+Simonsen
Another of the new major Danish fashion houses, recently opened this flagship store with dark brown buffalo skin covers on the walls, hand painted - individually made Venetian lamps and water flowing from a huge gold mosaic. Only for the girls, or for a popular present to bring home.
Department stores
Magasin du Nord
Housed in a former grand hostel on Kongens Nytorv, marking the Kongens Nytorv entrance to strøget, and with over a 100 years of history on its back, Magasin du Nord is the grand old dame of shopping in Copenhagen. Although not as exclusive as it used to be, it is still the premier department store in the city.
Illum
Illum is a 8 story department store, smack in the middle of Strøget, founded in 1891 - it has competed with Magasin since the dawn of man, to be the best and biggest department store. Unlike Magasin, it is mostly made up of small independent stores.
Music
Fona
Is a 3 floors electronics store, with probably the largest record section in the country, on the 3rd floor.
Shop for some of Copenhagen's music stars in these stores. Good buys of local bands from Copenhagen with international quality include; Kashmir and Mew for rock music, and Trentemøller is an international electronica superstar,
Blackout
The country's only specialty store for Rap, Hip Hop and R&B music. And a friendly and knowledgeable owner.
The best place for shopping in Copenhagen, is without a doubt Strøget. A set of connected pedestrian streets in the heart of the medieval city. It is claimed to be the biggest outdoor pedestrian shopping area in the world, regardless of whether this is true or not, it is a shoppers paradise, and the historic buildings as far as the eye can see, makes it a welcome alternative to any shopping center. The really interesting shopping however, is found in the small shops, in the many narrow side streets to Strøget, colloquially known as pisserenden or the Latin quarter. If you are out for traditional souvenirs, there are several shops on the section if Strøget running between the city hall, and Amager torv.