Ranked shortlist · 10 of 33 fashion and apparel shops
Best fashion and apparel shops in Lusaka
The 10 most notable fashion and apparel shops in Lusaka, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Foschini - Manda Hill Mall
Shop L110 Manda Hill, Cnr Manda Hill & Manchinchi Roads
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.365, percentile 100 of 33
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2
PEP Woodlands
Mosi-o-tunya Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.345, percentile 96.88 of 33
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3
PEP Zambia Lusaka Downtown
Kafue Rod Downtown Shopping Centre
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.316, percentile 93.75 of 33
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4
Foschini - Levy Junction
Levy Junction, Cnr Church, Kabelenga & Sadzu Roads
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.298, percentile 90.63 of 33
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5
Shoprite Zambia
Plot 122, Off Commonwelth Road, Matero
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.292, percentile 87.5 of 33
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6
PEP Lusaka Livonia Centre
Shop 11, Livonia Shopping Centre, 14 Mumbwa Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.279, percentile 84.38 of 33
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7
American Swiss - Cosmopolitan Mall, Lusaka
Shop 13, Cosmopolitan Mall, Er Sub Div Nr 9 Of Farm 3979, Kafue Road
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.230, percentile 81.25 of 33
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8
Markham - Manda Mall
Shop L110 Manda Hill Shopping Mall, Manchinchi Road
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.230, percentile 78.13 of 33
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9
Foschini - Cosmopolitan Mall
Cosmopolitan Mall, Cnr Kafue & Chawama Road
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.230, percentile 75 of 33
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10
Markham - Cosmopolitan Mall
Cosmopolitan Mall, G7V9+XVR, Kafue Road
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.230, percentile 71.88 of 33
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).