Giancarlo Ricci

Giancarlo Ricci is a small designer clothes shop in Bold Street that sells a range of men’s wear such as suits, jeans and shirts. It is one of the more high-​end shops in town that sells at expensive prices but of course you are paying for brand names and quality material. Even though there were some sales, it did not really make much of a difference in terms of high costs. Expect to find famous names such as Calvin Klein, Armani and Boss so if you’re a fan of these, this shop would interest you.
As I was browsing, the staff just let you get on with it. It is obviously not a place I would shop week in week out, as I am no fashion freak nor do I spend much on clothes. In this case, if you’re the opposite of me and like to spend lots on clothes, I apologise! But if you’re looking for a few bargains, this obviously isn’t the place.

As with the Armani Exchange store in the Met quarter there is a recurring problem related to Chav consumerism. You see… this actually really does affect the average reasonably fashion aware person on the street. If a chav is seen wearing a certain item of clothing, it has become customery to burn the same item of clothing if you have it in your closet. Ok, not burn it but not be seen in public wearing it. Although that is not strictly my philosophy I do know a lot of people who would.
Now that should stray you from the fact that Giancarlo Ricci is a store which stocks some of the best brands available on the high street. I have always been a big fan of Paul Smith for example. Luckily for me the chavs haven’t been able to totally destroy the brand as they have with prada, armani and G-​star.
True if you do happen to wonder in you might encounteer the odd chav or two but ignore them, luckily for all of us some of them do have the cash but a sense of style is lacking indeed. Why else would they still be living in chav land and being anti social on street corners.

The good thing — or bad as the case may be — about this scouting lark for Unilocal is that it forces you to sample places you would not normally think twice about.
I don’t thin that I have ever been into Giancarlo Ricci on Bold Street — I’m not sure I will again mind. Like Cricket, this place is an expensive designer outlet for Scallies. Let’s clarify this staement though, Scallies are not your chavs or what ever Southerners find on sink estates in Kent, I just mean your Scouse, urban wide boy.
With a range of clothing from Barbour, Paul Smith, Hugo Boss and Lyle & Scott, the clothes range from the bland to the garish — that sounds like there’s some middle ground doesn’t it, hmm.
If you look hard enough there are a few decent t-​shirts, quite a few nice shoes and some decent trainers — I was quite taken with a couple of Paul Smith and Johan Cruyff’s. But then when you finally find something you’re smacked in the face with a hefty price tag!
If you like spending money on good quality clothing you probably won’t shop here as Flannels have a better selection of such clothing, for the rest of us — and of course that just means me — it feels over priced for standard street wear.

Nice space. Bouncer staff lurking by the door always put me off. Good design led brands catering for a mainstream market. Good sales. Would look more if it had a few more left field labels but then I guess it knows its market.