Carnaby Street

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Address:: Carnaby Street,
London
Website:: www.carnaby.co.uk
Buses:: 3 6 7 8 10 12 13 14 15 19 22 23 25 38 55 73 88 94 98 113 137 139 159 177 190 390 453 C2
Trains:: Green Park JUB PCL VIC, Oxford Circus BKL CNT VIC, Piccadilly Circus BKL PCL, Tottenham Court Road CNT NRN Note: The nearest train station to Carnaby Street is Oxford Circus. We can help you find the best route from any other train station:
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The Carnaby Street that we know today started life in 1957 when John Stephen opened up a men’s clothing boutique. It soon attracted like-minded businesses, and within a decade the street was full of fashionable shops selling outrageous outfits.

It gained world fame in the Swinging Sixties, when Carnaby Street and led the world in fashion.

>> Drummerboy’s blog – Carnaby Street

Drummerboy – “Every guidebook has got Carnaby Street in it. It’s supposed to be super cool but it’s a load of rubbish. If it didn’t have the big black iron street sign at the entrance then you wouldn’t even be able to tell it apart from all the other shopping streets. They sell the kind of clothes that nobody wants to wear. I saw a pair of trousers about six inches long, and a hat that doubled up as a new hairdo. A pair of boots sat glistening in the window because it had a load of silver sequins stiched to it… continued.”

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bobby – “i was very disappointed with Carnaby Street. Maybe it was good once, in the 1960s, but now it is just the same as any other street with the same kind of shops which you would never normally go in. it's nice to take a detour just to see what its like, and t… read the full review”