Monique Lhuillier
9609 S. Santa Monica Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
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Diane Monique Lhuillier is a Filipino fashion designer based in the United States. She was born and raised in the Philippine province of Cebu and is of French and Cebuano descent, hence her typical French last name meaning "the oilmaker".
Lhuillier's family is one of the more prominent names in P...
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Reviews for Monique Lhuillier
I *love love love* Monique dresses! They fit so well and are so elegant and timeless! I bought a Monique dress and absolutely love it =)!
Monique Lhuilier dresses are gorgeous. I was originally looking to buy a Monique, but went with a Vera instead cause I wanted a gown that had more of a stream-lined look than a ballgown. FYI: You can buy them at Pearl's Place for 20% off retail.
Monique dresses are elegant but still edgy. Sure, they're $$$, but it's your wedding. It's worth it!
these dresses are the most beautiful dresses i have ever seen. my sister bought one for her wedding and it was expensive. but well it should have been! i've already found my future wedding dress and it was a monique lhuillier. it better still exist!
I bought my ML dress at their summer sample sale in July 2006. I went and tried dresses on in May and quickly found my favorite dress: Emmanuelle. Unfortunately, the price was way out of my range ($7k), but I clung to the hope that it would be available at the sale. I went to the sale on Friday (it starts on a Thursday), and found my dress almost instantly. They had 3 of them... and it was 70% off. The dress was in perfect condition, and all I needed to do was swipe my VISA and it was mine. Everyone was incredibly nice and helpful during the sale and so happy to assist customers.
Their dresses have an amazing fit and their silk and lace is to die for... especially at the sale prices!
While I didn't try her gowns on in the So. California store, I did try on 4 of them on at a store in San Francisco. They were beautiful, but, imo, much too expensive. I must admit, the store (Bridal Galleria) didn't show me all the gowns they have by Monique, so perhaps there were some more reasonably priced ones.
While they aren't cheap, Monique dresses and truly timeless and have a refined elegance. Her dresses have a very tailored structure, and fit like a glove, while still being romanitic and sexy. But the one thing that truly won me over was the quality of material -- of all the other dresses I tried, not one was as high of a quality silk as hers (even those that were 20K). Just touching it made you instantly realize that this is a gown, and not just a dress.
These dresses are absolutely beautiful! Very chic, not your typical bridal gown. I had so much fun wearing my dress!
Description of Monique Lhuillier
Diane Monique Lhuillier is a Filipino fashion designer based in the United States. She was born and raised in the Philippine province of Cebu and is of French and Cebuano descent, hence her typical French last name meaning "the oilmaker".
Lhuillier's family is one of the more prominent names in Philippine high society. The family owns a chain of pawnshops currently operating in more than a hundred cities in the nation.
Having had a difficult time finding her own gown, Lhuillier, a 23-year-old newlywed at the time, decided to begin sketching her own line of dresses. Her husband figured it was little more than a hobby, one that she would tire of soon enough. "He thought I had the wedding blues and eventually I'd get over it," she told USA WEEKEND Magazine.
She made the news with two high-profile celebrity weddings in a row. She designed Christine Baumgartner's wedding dress for the fall 2004 wedding to Kevin Costner shortly after designing both of Britney Spears's wedding dresses in her wedding to Kevin Federline. She's also designed the wedding gown of US former Vice President and former Second Lady Al and Tipper Gore's youngest daughter, Sarah G. Lee, during her marriage to Bill Lee, Giuliana DePandi's wedding gown to The Apprentice winner Bill Rancic, and Allison Munn's wedding gown to actor Scott Holroyd. Other celebrity wedding dresses include dresses fro Nikki Hensley, Charlotte Ross, and Natalie Imbruglia.
Subsequently Lhuillier added evening wear to her line, and several of her efforts showed up on red carpets before awards shows. For the Fall 2007 season she branched off into more typical oddball runway collections.
On September 18, 2007, Monique Lhuillier launched pretty dresses, her spring collection at New York Fashion Week. She introduced mostly sophisticated and fluid looks. Specifically, the Spring collection included, inter alia: "ready-to-wear formals and cocktail dresses, a collection characterized by ruffles, bows, pleats in soft fabric and candy colors of vanilla, mint, pistachio and butterscotch.
The above is excerpted from Wikipedia.
