Singapore: Orchard Road

We were six days and nights in Singapore. Our first day we mostly gawked at Orchard Road, where our hotel was, and the area's many giant super-shopping centers, the presence/abundance of just about every famous designer or retail name you can remember or imagine (including some you thought were dead and gone), the many many-starred restaurants, and so on. All the opulence, extravagance, and ostentation...and then some.

A store window at the Paragon, advertising the strange alliance between Mickey
and Gucci 

Third floor in the Paragon, a floor of (Lunar) New Year gifts

Across the street at Ngee Ann City, where you can design and print your own Polo
shirt (T-shirts starting at S$149; S$.75=1U$D)

Takashimaya (big department store) gourmet/New Year food court (don't worry,
there'll be a separate post on Singapore food)

Street scene

S$10,000 purse, anyone?

At a Lego Store, the glamping set all sold out 

Another street scene

 

View from our 14th floor room, the point of which is to introduce Singapore's
interest in greening everything...to make it not the Garden City, but a City in a
Garden (so the C of C said); we rode over much of the island, and it is truly the most
completely and beautifully landscaped place I've ever been 

Ngee Ann City shopping center (including the towers)

Across the street, the Paragon

You can have all the Chanels and Guccis...I'll take the 7-11s, which are as abundant
and crowded in Singapore as in Bangkok; and the rest of SE Asia

Tang Plaza and Tower, another mega-shopping center

More shopping centers, including Wheelock Place, which houses one of many
fine Marks and Spencers in the area

Thus (also to be found at Cold Storage, the grocery in Takashimaya)

Perhaps best known, the Ion

Part of Ion atrium

Sculpture outside Ion; the Burghers?!

Ever more shopping

Pretty incredible