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ORBISFASHION HOUSES & BOUTIQUES IN DUBLIN
13 shops in the atlas.
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Fashion Houses & Boutiques in Dublin

13 stores · curated ORBIS register

99b Concept Store sells Irish and European clothing in Rathgar Village, with textiles and homeware alongside garments at its family-run shop. Mourne Textiles and Nygårdsanna are among the labels represented there, connecting household fabrics with the store's clothing selection. Om Diva combines clothing and vintage pieces on Drury Street, presenting work by more than fifty Irish-based designers and makers.

Rathgar, Dublin

Family-run concept shop at 99b Rathgar Road in Rathgar Village, Dublin, trading since 2009 and selling sustainable Irish and European clothing, textiles and homeware, including Merz b. Schwanen, Nygårdsanna, Heschung and Mourne Textiles.

Best for Irish fashion, jewelry, and gift objects in a neighborhood concept shop

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Cleo Ltd

Heritage House

Kildare Street

Cleo has sold Irish knitwear and textiles from Kildare Street since Kit Ryan founded it in 1936, run today by the third generation of the Joyce family. The rails hold hand-knits and hand-weaves in undyed wool and linen from small Irish makers.

Best for Hand-knit Irish wool and linen clothing

⚒ Knitwear & Cashmere · IrelandORBIS register

CLOTH Dublin

Hidden Gem

Dublin 2 / Online

Natural fabrics for clothing and interiors are the centre of the Dublin shop, including Irish linen, wool tweed and lace. Liberty cottons and silks sit beside notions, giving dressmakers both base cloth and finishing materials.

Best for Fabrics, haberdashery supplies, sewing classes and made-to-measure services

⚒ Home & Design · IrelandORBIS register

South City Markets, Dublin

A multi-brand women’s boutique carrying independent international fashion labels and accessories. The boutique was founded in 1997.

Best for Independent international fashion labels and accessories, curated since 1997

⚒ Concept StoresORBIS register

South City Centre, Dublin

A women’s fashion shop selling the label’s own collections, occasionwear, accessories, and selected independent brands. Stylist Blanaid Hennessy founded the business in Kilkenny in 2008.

Best for In-house collections, occasionwear and independent fashion

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South Great George's Street, Dublin

Victorian market arcade — independent shops, vintage clothing, vinyl records, and street food vendors. A covered market with real character.

Best for Victorian covered arcade with vintage clothing, vinyl records, and street food vendors.

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Creative Quarter, Dublin

An Irish designer boutique selling Helen McAlinden’s women’s clothing and accessories. Helen McAlinden established her label in 2001.

Best for Helen McAlinden's own womenswear and accessories label, established 2001.

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Smithfield, Dublin

Jennifer Slattery designs Irish-made linens, clothing and homewares from a Smithfield textile studio. The shop connects finished pieces with the designer’s own prints, natural fibres and small-scale local production.

Best for Irish-made linens, clothing, and homewares designed by Jennifer Slattery

⚒ Home & DesignORBIS register

City Centre

Jenny Vander is a vintage clothing and costume jewellery shop at 50 Drury Street in Dublin 2, established in 1974. Nine cabinets hold jewellery sorted by colour, and the clothing centres on evening and cocktail dresses made before 1960. Only true vintage is sold, with no reproductions, and stock changes weekly. There is no website, so buying means visiting the shop in person.

Best for Designer vintage clothing and costume jewellery

Capel Street

The Copeland family has tailored menswear in Dublin since Hyman Coplan arrived from Lithuania in the early 1900s, with the business formalised by Louis Copeland in 1933. The Capel Street flagship and city-centre branches handle made-to-measure suits and ready-to-wear.

Best for Made-to-measure suits and menswear

⚒ Tailors & Sartorial Houses · IrelandORBIS register

Om Diva

Hidden Gem

27 Drury Street, Dublin 2 / Online

Independent Dublin boutique presenting clothing, accessories, vintage and work by more than 50 Irish-based designers and makers.

Best for Unique Irish design pieces from 50+ Irish-based designers and makers

⚒ Vintage & Antiques · IrelandORBIS register

South City Centre, Dublin

STABLE of Ireland brings Irish linen and handwoven textiles to a shop in Dublin's Westbury Mall, just off Grafton Street. Its clothing and scarf collections sit alongside home textiles. The brand works with weavers and other makers across the island of Ireland, giving traditional textile skills a place in contemporary designs.

Best for Irish linen, woven scarves and home textiles in central Dublin

⚒ Home & DesignORBIS register