During my visit to Taipei 101, I stumbled across a Nine West store having a sale, so naturally I decided to enter and see what I could find. I did not leave empty handed.
Address: 台北市信義區市府路3號B1樓
Taipei City, Xin Yi District, Shi Fu Road, No. 45, Floor B1
Phone number: 02 8101 8361
Price: Approximately $3,000+NT
A well known American brand in a well known Taiwanese shopping mall situated at the base of the world’s second tallest tower. Nine West is one of the cheaper stores you’ll find inside, but not as cheap as Giordano, Adidas, Nike, or Esprit. However, it being so close to Versace, Gucci, Prada, and Armani justifies my calling it a ‘cheaper store’. But I guess that’s completely beside the point.
The staff are nice and very helpful, of course, and can speak Mandarin and some English. Like a lot of places, they don’t actually have all the shoes in the store, so be sure you really want to try on a certain size before you send one of the girls running off to fetch them for you.
Nevertheless, the shoe sizes range up to at least a US9, however the larger sizes are obviously going to be more scarce. During a sale, you can also get the shoes for half price or something similar. Pictured above are my new boots, a US size 8 which I’m finding to be a little bit too big for me, but nothing too troublesome. They were originally $4,800NT but I got them for around $1,600NT. Pretty good.