A Walk Through Vancouver’s Newest Luxury Destination
A corridor of maisons that most cities wait decades to earn has assembled itself at Oakridge Park, unveiling itself this summer in the unhurried cadence of an anticipated season premiere, one storefront revealed at a time.
What follows is less a ranking than an invitation: an opportunity to take in the architecture, the installations, and the considered design details each house has brought to this address, and to linger inside the first impression each one is so deliberately presenting.
ROLEX
Global Watch Company’s new Rolex boutique sits at the heart of Oakridge Park’s West Side address, a decade after GWC opened Canada’s first Rolex boutique. The space has a travertine-clad exterior and a Verde Alpi marble reception wall that nod to the fluted bezel of the brand’s Classic watches. Among the novelty timepieces worth requesting a viewing of are the Jubilee Dial Oyster Perpetual and the 100th Anniversary Oyster Perpetual, two of the boutique’s most sought-after new releases. A dedicated after-sales service area upstairs is staffed by Rolex-certified watchmakers. Notably for collectors, GWC has also opened a standalone Tudor storefront next door, worth a look for anyone easing into Swiss watchmaking before committing to the crown.
LUGARO JEWELLERS
Lugaro’s showroom takes the boutique-within-a-boutique approach seriously, with a custom lounge built around a marble bar and private appointment rooms tucked away from the main floor with custom furniture design that is equally as amazing as the pieces themselves. Beneath the H. Moser & Cie. signage sits a dedicated luxury watch gallery showcasing that maison alongside Jacob & Co. and OMEGA.
CHANEL
Chanel has opened what stands as its largest store in Canada, a boutique carrying the full weight of the house, beauty counters and treatment rooms included, alongside high jewellery and the complete range of Chanel collections. Ask your advisor to walk you through the beauty offering first, then let the visit unfold into ready-to-wear and high jewellery from there.
TIFFANY & CO.
Clad in porcelain inspired by Favrile Glass, the iridescent glass Louis Comfort Tiffany patented in 1894, the exterior shifts through white, silver, and pale Tiffany Blue as the light changes. Inside, the boutique is organized into what the house calls Universes, dedicated environments for Icons, High Jewellery, Watches, Legendary Designers, and Sterling Silver among them, anchored by artist Hugh Dutton’s Diamond Eye installation beneath an Italian Sputnik chandelier set with Swarovski crystals.
CHAUMET
On the West Coast, Chaumet is best known for its diamond and precious gemstone custom tiara design, a reputation the Oakridge boutique honours directly, with a tiara wall at the heart of the room paying tribute to Empress Joséphine, the maison’s founding muse behind its signature Joséphine collection. The deep Chaumet blue traces back to the house’s role as official jeweller to Napoleon I, paired with warm gold accents echoing its high jewellery. Collections on display include Joséphine, Bee de Chaumet, Liens, and a dedicated bridal section, built around honeycomb motifs and romantic symbolism carried for generations, with wheat fields worked into sculptural wall details throughout the space.
MAX MARA AND WEEKEND MAX MARA
Max Mara and Weekend Max Mara complete the offer for elevated day-to-day dressing, marking a homecoming for Vestis Fashion Group, which operated at the original Oakridge Centre for decades. The Max Mara boutique is the exclusive Canadian home of Atelier, the house’s pinnacle outerwear collection, defined by handcrafted tailoring. Next door, Weekend Max Mara carries Inserimento, its only North American home, prized for rich textures and relaxed femininity, alongside private styling and custom tailoring.
Oakridge Park has arrived as something distinct from what came before it, a new lifestyle community that QuadReal Property Group and Westbank have positioned as far more than a shopping destination, where a nine-acre park, cultural programming, and a future of homes and offices carry as much weight as the storefronts themselves, part of a vision that will eventually total five million square feet of retail, residential, office, and cultural space. Shopping, in this context, is simply the most photogenic entry point into something considerably larger.