Linking to a page with collections (clickable images) from the front page

Topic summary

Need a hierarchical collection structure with clickable images: homepage links for Watches, Jewellery, Clothes should open an intermediate page showing sub-collections (e.g., Watches → Digital, Wind-up, Quartz), and only then lead to the final product listing for the chosen type.

Current behavior: clicking a top-level collection (e.g., Watches) goes straight to a single page listing all items in that category, with no second layer to select types. This is especially problematic for Clothes, where the user wants sub-categories like T-shirts, Trousers, Jumpers, Hats rather than one mixed list.

Key question: whether Shopify can support sub-categories/“collection of collections” pages navigated via clickable collection images, or if the structure must remain flat.

Latest update and status: a respondent requested the store URL to investigate further. No solution provided yet; discussion remains open pending the store link.

Summarized with AI on January 27. AI used: gpt-5.

I guess this is going to be one of those questions asked a million times before but I can’t seem to find a good answer…

Suppose I am selling a range of items from my store: watches, jewellery and clothes. Within each of those there are a set of collections (item types), e.g. under watches I’d have “digital”, “wind-up” and “quartz”. Under jewellery I’d have “rings”, “necklaces” and “ear rings” (for example).

What I want is my front page to have a high-level link for each of these, so watches would have a clickable image showing a collection of random watches, then this would lead to a page with a set of Collection Lists, one for each type of watch, e.g. a clickable image for “digital”, one for “wind-up” and one for “quartz”. These each lead to the final page which is the collection of watches available under each theme.

What I have at the moment however is a front page with “Watches”, “Jewellery” and “Clothes” each as a clickable Collection List image. Clicking “Watches” just takes you to a page where ALL watches are listed for sale rather than what I really want which is a second layer of sorting, allowing the user to select the TYPE of watch they want, and then diving down into a sales page with only those type of watches (e.g. those in the Digital collection list).

Is there a way to do this or am I stuck with not being able to sort each category into further sub-categories? It might not be too bad for watches as there aren’t that many types, but for “Clothes” I don’t want to have a jumbled list of ALL the clothes I have for sale all mixed in together. I.e. I need to break it down into further lists such as t-shirts, trousers, jumpers, hats etc, not just have all these items in one big list!

@Robert_Smith_UK

Please share your store URL!

Thanks!