Victoria’s Design District ‘encompasses a lifestyle’

Victoria’s Design District can make you forget Rode Drive’s glitz.

L-R: Tracy Higgins, Sherry Kerr, Lindsay Sharpe, Beth Krupa, Sandy Mandel and Andrew Kondi fabulously dressed at Thompson and Page Quality Home Furnishings. 'You can't wear a fabulous dress and sit on a horrible couch,' says Sharpe. Brett Featherstone/The Epoch Times

VICTORIA—At this time of year in particular, famous shopping zones such as London’s Oxford Street or Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles are all aglow. But in downtown Victoria, with its quaint old-fashioned street lights, a unique area stretching six square blocks can make you forget about Rodeo’s glitz.

It is the Design District, and it accommodates a variety of businesses including restaurants, hair salons, a boutique art hotel, and home stores that specialize in styles from modern cutting edge to old-world European to locally hand-crafted.