BA’s best for shoes, Mishka can’t be beaten for style or quality. The Collection is small and chiefly designed for danty feet but it’s happy day if you find your fit because these shoes are a guarantee of serior WOW factor.

A bright pink beacon of innovation and one of the frst stores of its kind in BA.Everything is in the best posible taste.The latest collection draws inspiration from Africa and heavy metal music. Check out the range of Joy Division inspired “Love will tear us apart” T-Shirts. Clothes for kids who like to shock their parents and parents who like to embarrass their kids.

With handmade paper in all shapes. sizes and textures, this super stationer’s is a joy to browse in. The walls are lined with brightly coloured rolls of wrapping paper and a tiny gramophone plays scratchy tunes while you make your choices.

Paseo Alcorta, considered by many shopping buffs to be the best mall in BA, contains the gigantic Carrefour supermarket and four cinema screens.It’s also home of the latest Argetinian designer wear and wares.

There is nothing conventional to be found at this homage to hippy and retro chic. The latest line is name after Argentina’s most important river, Parana. According to designer Mariana Cortez the outfits in this collection are for imaginative women, habitants of fantasy landscape that is bathed in light. The cuts are pure, simple and organic, the outfits (mostly cotton) available in a rainbow of colours, with items for men and kids also available.

Picture a wealthy New Yorker with a pied a terre in th Hamptons.Now picture his teenage son. He is probably wearing something that looks like it came from FELIX, perhaps one of the Vichy Check T’shirts, or a pastel scarf as long as a garden hose.Everything is cool in this prepie portenio Classic. Look out particulary for the Mick Jaggeresque pants and the electric blue trench coats.To deck your kids outin the same look, pop around the corner to the children’s branch at El Salvador 4742.