Monsoon

My favourite accesories shop to shop in! Beautiful bags and jewellery can’t ever go wrong love everything about it! Can be a little pricey but that doesn’t stop me from buying a trillion things in there :’)

I was helped by a really lovely member of staff here when using the changing rooms upstairs recently. Alas, I never got her name.
I was here to see what size I needed for a dress I was going order from the Monsoon website that you can’t get here in Ireland. She was able to do up the zips I needed help with. And we chatted about the online service Monsoon have for their Bridal ware. She was a great help to me to be honest and was able to confirm a few things about their online service.
I’ve since ordered and received a dress from their online Bridal range, thanks to the help I got from this lady here in the Grafton Street Monsoon.
And do like the clothes here in Monsoon. A little pricey, but the quality is higher. Their sales are always worth a look, bargains can be got.

My opinion about Monsoon does not matter as I am not a cross dresser or aware of men’s fashion by Monsoon. I am usually a tag along aka handbag aka money man on the ready with plastic ;-))
From what I understand its pretty good as I seem to go in there a bit lol

This store has a Hippie/​Boho vibe.
Unique items.
Creepy bouncer at the door.

Completely agree with Mary on Monsoon… love love LOVE Monsoon’s boho-​chic dresses and tops. on top of that they also have the cutsie cardigans and 50s style skirts that enable the officey-​uniform types amongst us to express some semblance of our style… sometimes dunned just doesn’t cut it! :) the downside and one star less is due to price… BOO! I hate the exchange rate rip-offedness…moral of the story, if you’re not up for the big spender feeling on your bank a/​c, go up north! How unpatriotic do I feel… :(

Monsoon do some of the most beautiful dresses I have ever seen in amazing jewel colours, and the shop on Grafton Street is like an Aladdin’s cave stuffed with beautiful clothes. There is also nice shoes and accessories but clothes take up most of the store. The one thing that annoys me about this store though is the fact that the clothes racks are a bit all over the place making it hard to find what you’re looking for. On the other hand maybe that’s what’s giving this store a bit of a bazaar feel… In any case, this shop is full of gorgeous dresses and accessories of a good quality, so it’s well worth a look.

Monsoon sells original and attention-​grabbing clothes, laden with designs influenced by North Africa, Nepal and India. Deep purples are adorned with golden sequins and shiny flecks, dark teals with oriental prints and subterranean fuchsias with intricate beaded embroidery. The clothes are both innovative and sophisticated… a rare combination that results in beautiful, almost picturesque garments.
Much to my delight Monsoon on Grafton Street stocks a sizeable selection of their ‘Fusion’ range, that which blends trend-​driven design with Monsoon’s signature style. I have bought some cardigans, a folk dress and sequined tunic from this range before, the style of which have been described by friends as ‘Laura Ashley on acid.’ I recently purchased a Monsoon Fusion Bo Jangles Bead Dress; Part flapper, part Lolita, this pretty frock required only two things, same as most Monsoon attire: the right accessories and a playful personality. These beautifully tailored numbers will fool everyone into thinking they’re designer. Spread across two floors this branch offers most of the Monsoon clothes as seen on the web-​site where other smaller branch’s stockpile would normally be much more limited.
The clothes in Monsoon are very expensive and those in the ‘Originals’ range, the most classical of all the clothes available in the store are especially costly with an average cocktail dress priced at € 160. The clothes do however have a considerable durability and do look beautiful. The intricate needlework and exemplary embroidery ensure the clothes last for years.

I have no idea why people would classify Monsoon as granny wear. It is soooo not granny wear! I am 25 and I want to buy every single item of clothing in this store.
Sure, it is absolutely nothing like the young, trendy style that is sold in Topshop or Miss Selfridge, but the style sold at Monsoon is better. It’s floaty, flirty, bohemian and beautiful. On the bottom floor they have pretty patterned tops. a lot with really cool details, and tons and tons of fancy dresses and gowns that make me wish I had an event to go to just so I could have an excuse to buy one. Upstairs they have accessories and bridal wear, which is just as pretty and hippie-​esque as the downstairs stuff.
But just calling it hippie doesn’t do the stuff justice. Monsoon is really elegant as well. I seriously adore this place, though a major drawback is that it’s mostly out of my price range: o (

Having moved to a larger space from across the street Monsoon opened this shop dedicated to clothes rather than the accessories. Monsoon designers are really not afraid to take inspiration from different sources than the usual highstreet stores and genuinely have a different look and feel to other clothes.
While they do a range of clothes I always think of Monsoon as a dresses shop. They have daytime summery ones as well as formal, cocktail and evening dresses. Their cuts and fabrics are generally very feminine and they delight in little details.
The prices are not cheap but the quality of the clothes are quite good and when they do a sale they can sometimes knock 70% off an item. I actually lusted after a grey silk evening dress there some years ago but couldn’t fork out the 250 euro for it. I got it two years later when I stumbled on it for about 50 euro. And because Monsoon are more concerned with classic style than the latest trend the clothes don’t date so badly. That said they do add an element of the current trends to their clothes, they just don’t lose their own style in it.
Monsoon have branched out into wedding and bridesmaid dresses, which you can see upstairs and their clothes come in sizes 8 to 22.