Costlier than Paris

Luxury brand clothes, cosmetics and shoes such as Prada or Hugo Boss, cost up to twice as much in Warsaw as in Paris or Rome. Importers of cosmetics appear especially greedy.

Last year they "did not notice" the abolition of excise duty, and now they are ignoring the strength of the złoty.

Luxury brand dealers put the price differences down to the uncertainty of the future of the złoty, noting that some orders had been place before the złoty appreciated.