The best fashion and gift stores Uzbekistan

This boutique-gallery created by Lola Saif is a real cultural center dedicated to Uzbek crafts and contemporary creation. Human House collaborates with more than 200 craftsmen and creators from all over the country, handpicked for their know-how and whose production can be found here. No factory-made or mediocre object passes through the doors of Human House. Decorative objects, furniture, clothing and shoes, everyone will find something to their liking in this laboratory of good taste. Frequent masterclasses, openings and events for young and old.

This young English-speaking miniaturist based in the first cupola and only twenty years old is nevertheless full of talent. Author of miniatures that respond to the canons of the genre and produced in the rules of the art, his works leave to show a clean and truly personal style. If you spend a few days in Bukhara, he will be able to take the time to make you a personalized miniature that will be a unique travel souvenir.

Nargiza Marupova is a fashion designer who uses Bukhara's traditional textiles, themes and know-how in resolutely contemporary creations. His coats, dresses and jackets are all unique, colourful and very elegant creations. Also a wide choice of bags, shawls, scarves and tops. If you have a few hours, Nargiza can take back its models (change the type of collar, etc.). Better yet, she needs only 48 hours to create a custom-made creation from her vast catalogue and your suggestions.

Kanishka is the emblem of contemporary fashion in Tashkent. In this traditional Uzbek-style shop, you will find the creations of this young Uzbek designer, best known for his leather accessories (bags, wallets, belts) and graphic t-shirts whose designs are based in turn on traditional nomadic designs or Uzbek ikats. The shop is not indicated and there is no reason to suspect that this building is open for visits, but do not hesitate. Make a phone call before your visit so we can open you up.

Take the road along the Koukeldach Madrassah and turn into the first aisle on the left. Here you will find all the souvenir shops to complete your gifts. This alley leads to a kind of court. It overlooks a covered hall on the left where all the fabric stands, workmanship and tchapan are grouped. Here, at Stand 14, you will find the best selection of adras and atlas of the market, for a more easily marketable price than in the craft centre for tourists near the large market hall.

Take the road along the Kukeldach Madrasah and turn into the first alley on the left. This alley leads to some kind of courtyard. It opens onto a covered hall on the left where all the stands of fabrics, clothing and chapan, traditional Uzbek coats are grouped together. At stand 10, Mamoura offers a wide selection of chapans, both for men and women: the traditional velvet chapan, of course, but also the striped chapans in shimmering colours. Mamoura's tough but just business. Hang on and negotiate dry!

Still the same Minzifa team that makes a definite no mistake when it signs up in the shopping section. Here Nodir and his wife present a magnificent selection of national handicrafts: suzani, carpets, khalat, silks, scarves and beautiful pieces of Gijduvan ceramics. Everything is skillfully selected thanks to an active network of contacts gleaning the most beautiful pieces from all over the country. The Minzifa taste is back, and it never lets up

This art gallery opened in 2017 offers a very nice collection of products from all over the country (mainly artists' paintings but also ceramics, designer dresses...). We will find functional objects of everyday life, others purely decorative, some having been revisited to stick to the tastes or customs of the 21st century and it is rather successful overall. There are also many paintings with a slightly more mitigated invoice. We stroll with pleasure in this gallery where we finally get a glimpse of many things.

The Tashkent flea market is known to locals as Tezykovka. It contains just about everything that can exist under the sun. From busts of Stalin to traditional silk scarves, from American military surpluses to posters announcing the creation of Uzbek shows in Parisian cafés at the beginning of the century, cameras, animals, old bills... But also miles of cables, pipes, broken things, tools of all kinds. You don't choose your route, you're carried by the crowd.

With this musician, composer and singer, you will find many records of traditional Uzbek music as well as a whole range of local instruments that Babur will be happy to introduce you to. The instruments of Central Asia hold no secrets for him and you will not leave without a solid knowledge of the music and songs of the region. Two-string lute (also common in Iran), tambourines and many other instruments often unknown in Europe. Of all the shops in Registan, this one is certainly the most unique!

Avoid the Chinese "made in China" souvenir stores that abound in Samarkand and come instead to hunt in this delightful grouping of traditional houses where Elena Ladik, a designer and jack-of-all-trades working with textiles, including silk, wrought iron, ceramics among a delightful bric-a-brac of antiques, officiates. Each garment or accessory is reinterpreted in its own way to become a unique piece combining tradition, character and originality. Fashion lovers and professionals from all over the world come to find their happiness.

In 2019 Davlat Toshev undertook the restoration of a caravanserai that had been abandoned since independence. The result is commensurate with the investment made, and offers an exceptional setting for the twenty or so students it welcomes to pass on its knowledge and experience. We can only strongly recommend that you go and meet them and linger on their work, displayed in the different rooms. Warm welcome and a great experience guaranteed.

This experienced and recognized painter offers beautiful paintings evoking the religious beliefs of the region, including Zoroastrism.

This recently opened boutique offers beautiful silk scarves and various fabrics. We appreciate the friendliness of the veneers and the reception that allows you to take the time.