The best fashion and gift stores Ho Chi Minh City

This concept-store is the ideal shop to find gifts. The store sells not only the beautiful Ginkgo brand tee-shirts, designed and manufactured in Vietnam in natural or even organic materials, and according to standards that comply with the principles of fair trade, but also a lot of handicraft products that are the fruit of the talent of French or foreign designers living in Vietnam and inspired by the country: Dame Clémence perfumes, Marou chocolate, Azial beauty products... The prices are very reasonable.

Tailor-made since 1948. Appreciated by expatriates who will be able to make custom shirts, jackets and costumes.

This address is really original and you'd be wrong to miss it. Here, creativity has no limits: from the art of recycling the old rice bags from the farm... to produce handbags displaying calves, buffaloes or even pigs! You will also discover a wide choice of stationery, mugs... The whole is inspired by colonial imagery or propaganda posters that find an ironic and unexpected second life. This sign is recommended to find original, quirky and inexpensive gifts.

For men. The leathers are imported from Italy. They are cut, assembled and dyed by hand by Vietnamese craftsmen, under the direction of Dominique Saint-Paul. The result: magnificent shoes that are one-of-a-kind. Shoe fanatics will be delighted by the diversity of models and materials, and taste the possibility of made-to-measure, with the desired, individualized shade. English style, French finesse, Italian flair and Vietnamese creativity, all inspired by Old Saigon...

Open since 2002 (but it has moved), it is the French bookshop of Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville. Regularly supplied with novelties - and classics - despite the persistence of an increasingly anachronistic censorship every day. There are also second-hand books and charming gift ideas. It is a very pleasant place, with a warm and friendly welcome. A visit is highly recommended, an opportunity to meet French speakers and expatriates who will be delighted to exchange and share experiences and good plans.

Founded by two people from Nantes, Ronan and Kevin, N'go is a new brand of sneakers that shows solidarity and responsibility. With each pair of shoes you buy, you participate in the construction of schools in Vietnam thanks to the NGO Sao Bien which supports education and schooling of children in remote villages in the north of the country. The N'go sneakers promote traditional know-how, handicraft techniques of ethnic minorities and the patterns are hand woven by Vietnamese craftsmen. All the stages of manufacture on the website.