Monique Lhuillier
Corner of Melrose Place and La Cienega
Los Angeles, CA 90069
(map) Phone: 323.655.1088 Hours: Monday thru Saturday 10am to 6pm
Closed Sunday
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....
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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'm totally in love with Monique Lhuillier gowns, especially the ones with Alencon lace. Some of the bridal lines are classy, modern, and classic. With a Monique Lhuillier gown, you can expect sky high prices. Monique has made dresses for Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Ashlee Simpson, Eva Longoria, and other celebrities to name a few. Dresses here do not run cheap. They usually run around 5K starting to as much as 20K and up. I had dreamed of owning an Alencon lace gown by Monique for my wedding but because of the outrageous prices, my dreams had fallen flat. I knew there would be no way my parents would let me purchase a dress between 6K-9K range. In addition, just having the thought of buying a dress that cost that much made me feel guilty and selfish. It wasn't practical at all especially with the way the economy is right now.
Luckily, I was able to get a gown here for a special price during one of their rare sales. It was the last one available in store and in my size. The dress fit me perfectly and it was also made of Alencon lace. I couldn't believe it! What I thought would turn out to be a disappointment, turned out to be a dream come true. Kudos to the staff for locating the dress and making sure that my parents got it since they were the ones that picked it up for me while I was back in San Jose doing the Livestrong Marathon. According to my mother, the staff treated her well and she had no complaints at all. Thanks mom, dad, and the staff at Monique Lhuillier Salon for making one of my dreams come true.
I mean, what can I possibly say here! The only thing I was certain about going into the wedding planning process(besides my groom) was the designer of my dress! My Monique Lhuillier gown is the dress of my dreams! It feels and looks luxurious and I feel amzing in it! I cannot wait to wear it for real!! I lucked out and bought mine at a sample sale!
I have to say my dress was beautiful. But there was so much drama associated with it! I ordered my dress in october at the trunk show and it came in a month early. The drama started with the first fitting. It was a strapless dress, and at the first fitting, it felt like it was not holding my boobs in....so I thought, ok, they will alter it to make it fit, not to worry....well at fitting number 4 my boobs will still falling out when i lifted my arms. They took it in, took it out, took it in, took it out. nothing was working. Then we decided we had to remake the whole top to make it go higher. We thought that would work, but NOPE! The strapless dress was still falling and not holding me in. Two weeks before the wedding and my dress does not fit. I ended up going in 5 times before the wedding (almost every day)....two days before the wedding, my boobs were still not staying in. And I do not have big boobs! Nor do I have a weird body or anything that would make it hard to fit me. They ended up on the friday before my sunday wedding putting straps on. At first i thought it would look horrible, but it looked great. The kicker was that now the dress gave me extra cleavage (which i liked :) ). So they hand delivered the dress to me on saturday evening when I checked into my hotel. I couldnt take it with me at my fitting on that saturday morning bc it still needed to be cleaned and pressed. Talk about last minute. Well it took three people to get me into the dress. Now even more drama, at the reception, the bustle broke and i spent a lot of the time fixing it....by the middle of the party i was like forget it, just safetly pin it up, i dont care what it looks like, i just want to dance and not step on it! And then....one of the straps broke!!!!! So my sister in law, broke the other strap and tied it into a halter. I just didnt care anymore! The next day I had bruises on both my shoulders and behind my neck from the straps digging into me.....The dress is definitely ruined. But it made it through the night, and my boobs did not pop out...I was not a priceless commercial!
They didnt get an F because they refunded us first the alterations cost and the next day when my mom called to tell them all the drama, they gave us 50% of the cost of the dress back. The alteration lady was also really sweet and really tried hard to make the dress work (she burst out into tears when it wasnt working). The dress ended up looking great it just wasnt comfortable and I missed some of the dancing because of it.
If you're looking for an all-over-lace sheath type dress, Monique is your girl. No one has better quality lace or more elegant designs. I bought mine used and it still looked fantastic on the wedding day.
Monique Lhuillier was the one and only designer I wanted to wear for my wedding and she did not disappoint. I also bought my dress during her sample sale and the sales associates were very helpful and knowlegeable inspite the fact there were hundreds of women going haywire. I went by myself and one SA found dresses for me in different sizes to try on. LA brides please take advantage of her sample sale, gowns were marked down 50-75% off!
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!
I was so lucky to get my Monique Lhuillier dress for my wedding! I love their dresses, and felt like a princess in mine!
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.
I love love love my dress! I would love to wear it every day! Worth every penny!
I was so lucky to get my Monique Lhuillier dress at a trunk show! I saw it at a Bridal Show and fell in love with it, but my heart dropped when I found out the price. I love their dresses, and felt like a princess in mine!
Simply: no one can beat Monique Lhuillier dresses!
I definetly want a ML dress and went there with my mom. We were quite disappointed. We had wesley and she was not very friendly or helpful. In fact she was sort of rushing us through the process. I am going to try Saks
in OC and order my dress from there instead!
Monique Lhuillier was the designer of my dress that I got at the Brides Room in Nashville, TN. The Monique dresses are the most gorgeous dresses out there. The lace is so feminine and elegant. I received compliments over and over again about how my dress almost looked vintage. I love that! While her dresses are expensive, it is absolutely worth every penny to wear a Monique Lhuillier dress. You only get married to the man of your dreams once!
Great service, but I must have made over 8 trips to Beverly Hills from Irvine and they still couldn't fit my wedding dress correctly. For some reason the detail of that a lot of girls who bought the same wedding gown as mine had trouble getting it fitted correctly had slipped the sales person's mind. I would have been gladly to choose another wedding gown. I also heard that another girl had trouble getting her dress fitted correctly at Monique Lhuillier. Word of advice, find a better alteration place. Or you'll find yourself very frustrated and spent too much for a lousy alteration service.
Truly lovely work. Her dress is a perfect fit for my body type and skin complexion. Her ivory base prevented me from looking like a snow queen and her tasteful amount of tulle prevented me from looking like a marshmallow. Even though the entire gown is made of lace, the cut stops the fabric from overwhelming my small frame. The strapless, lace, ivory, A-line works perfectly for me!
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.
I love Monique Lhiller dresses. I got a lot of compliment on my wedding day. absolutely love it !
These dresses are absolutely beautiful! Very chic, not your typical bridal gown. I had so much fun wearing my dress!
Beautiful dresses and wonderful services and sales!
Gorgeous classic gowns..very nice cuts.




