H&M

There was a rude sales assistant called Jenny and she did not provide the complete solution for me. Very angry and disappointed. Will never come back it stocks really cheap shit which I would never wear and the assistant tried to provide me with clothes that a 16 yr old tramp would wear
But impressed with the décor, 5 stars

This place stressed me out. I am not a huge shopping fan to begin with and I wouldn’t say I’m the most fashionable person, but I know H&M stocks great basic wear at a decent price. It is so hard sometimes to just find great basics! When I visited Melbourne I made it a point to stop by H&M. The first time I was so overwhelmed, I didn’t know what I had gotten myself into! Multiple floors and rooms — it was nuts!
So I walked out the first time empty handed and feeling completely overwhelmed. Here’s a pro-​tip: plan a day here or half a day, especially if you’re not local (like me). I ended up going back a few days later before I left Melbourne and went through every single floor and room. I found the best fitting jeans of my life here, and a couple of great basic tops!
I do wish they had online shopping though — like I said before I’m not a huge fan of shopping in general. Crowds overwhelm me and I would much rather shop from home in my pajamas :)
Also a side note: you’re not allowed to take photos in the shop?! I had my DSLR camera strapped around my neck and I had a security guard approach me and tell me I was not allowed to have it in the shop and that if I was caught taking photos they’d ask me to leave. I asked why and they said those are just the rules. Fair enough, it’s private property and I understand photography laws — but then I looked over and saw a girl taking photos on her phone and I asked why she was allowed to take photos. He said phone photos were allowed but not «professional photos» :| Like, what am I going to do with my DSLR images of the inside of H&M? Blow them up and make prints of them and make mad profit from selling the images? Lol.

I’m a huge fan of H&M. I often am able to purchase decent clothing at great prices. They have wide variety, some of the items may not be of the best quality, so you do get what you pay for.
If you do however spend just that little bit extra you are able to find some great staples for your wardrobe.
I love love love their home ware section and have bought some lovely knick knacks and manchester from that section.
We often pop in their just before the start of a new season and spend up so our wardrobe is stocked. I love how they have items that are not so usually seen on the streets.
H&M is my Happy Place. Oh and I just love their staff, they work tirelessly but are always so helpful and friendly.

Very massive store in the heart of the CBD, it’s also quite snazzy on the exterior. You’re greeted by mannequins hanging from the ceiling in the latest fashions. I came in with the intentions of getting two tank tops and a maxi skirt. I had no idea how massive and vast the selections would be, pleasantly surprised! I left with three rompers, two dresses, three tops and two pair of shorts. Mercy. Don’t ask me how I’m going to find space in my suitcase for them! Since it is summer here, there were a few sales going on, much to my pleasure. I went midday on Monday, and it was still crowded. Be prepared for extremely long lines for the fitting rooms, I have never seen anything like it. The fitting rooms are coed, I found the one on the men’s floor to move quicker. Staff were friendly and efficient. Definitely drop in and visit them.

Gah! Crowded like you wouldn’t believe. Having to wait in line for a change room and at the till is a young person’s game. The deals are great bit be prepared to wait.

I’ve always thought this brand is good for the price you pay but this building is so cool, I forgot to buy anything as I was so mesmerized by the décor!
By now I think everyone knows that price is the main focus on this chain and well, if you don’t mind buying made in china stuff then this is the store for you.
The ratio of quality for the price you paid is not too bad and makes shopping in here so much fun!

The saving grace of this packed to the gills, badly designed, and stressful as all get out H and M is the maternity section. It’s very well priced (a tiny fraction of the cost of smaller chains like Ripe) and I was happy to find basic maternity tights for only 8 dollars, among other bargains. Good range of kids wear and athletic wear as well, though I’m not so keen on their straight «fashion», perhaps because I’m slowly ageing out of their key demographic (though I still love Topshop so maybe it’s something else). I’ve been in many an H and M overseas and this is certainly one of the most unpleasant… The design of the store is claustrophobic and narrow. Despite being housed in the lovely old GPO building they haven’t utilised the space well and everything is totally packed together like sardines and hard to navigate. The lines for the dressing room run 15 minutes on a weekday afternoon and dressing rooms themselves are not attended to: Expect hairballs the size of a Huntsman spider and the detritus of someone’s Subway lunch to litter the floor as as you try on clothes. Huge lines follow at the cash registers and there are no salespeople on the floor at all. I think I saw a total of 7 staff on a packed Friday evening.
Still, it is cheap. For me, H and M Bourke Street remains a necessary evil.

Shiny store but confusing to navigate and always too busy– which I don’t quite understand. The place is practically target except more expensive. The clothing is so poorly made. Hopefully the hype will go down soon! I mainly use H&M as a walkway between bourke street and the emporium.

Ethical fast-​fashion is an oxymoron, but H&M does do it better than all other giant retail chain stores. Though they don’t own factories (and so can’t guarantee worker rights and conditions) they do participate in initiatives to ensure ethical treatment of employees, and they support unions. Some of the clothing is made with (I won’t say sustainable because fast-​fashion by its very definition can’t be sustainable) less harmful environmental practices such as recycles materials and water saving methods. Again, they don’t have the best practices, but they do have practices which are better than other large chain stores.
Though I have been a long-​time shopper at H&M (it’s been in North America for a good decade now), I have recently become very impressed with the children and baby clothes. Lots of items are made with organic cotton, which is difficult to find in baby clothes. As you would expect from H&M there are lots of fun prints and patterns in their necessities (socks, onesies, etc) and well as decadent for-​fun items (because my baby will definitely need a hot pink tutu and a faux fur vest a la North West).
The building as well is absolutely beautiful. Even if you aren’t shopping for a man or a baby, be sure to check out the top floor, just for the gorgeous view of the entire store. From there, you can also see the details in the ceiling carvings, and they are gorgeous. It kind of feels like going to church, while shopping! Bonus!

Busy store, busy staff and a massive queue for the change rooms… only one visit here and you will see why. The clothes fit, the clothes are comfortable and the clothes look good. They have everything here from tops and bottoms, shoes and socks, underwear and accessories, as well as fitness wear. It’s all here and it’s all cheap. A wonderful place to find clothes as long as you’re happy to spend a few extra minutes lining up to try it on and to buy it… but I promise, it’s worth the wait.

I was here just after they opened when you still had to line up to get in. Lining up to get into a store seems like such a stupid idea but it didn’t disappoint.
Just like the stores in the States, this H&M is HUGE, spanned over a couple of levels with lots of different areas. You’ll find clothing and accessories for men, women & children and something to wear in the office, the bedroom, to lunch or a night out. And everything is really well priced.
You could easily spend an hour or more browsing and I’d be surprised if you manage to leave empty handed!

HUGE store inside the gorgeous GPO building.
Love that prices are along the lines of H&M’s worldwide (unlike the Zara’s & Top Shops of Australia), good range but the staff could brush up on their stock knowledge. I’d found a dress online and the first couple of employees I spoke to had no idea and sent me to the change rooms and then upstairs to no avail. I then spoke to a guy who said sometimes stock comes online before stores.
If you’ve never been to H&M, they have an awesome cheap range of basics & jeans, a wide range of dresses, casual and office wear amongst others! Women’s, men’s and kids too!
Fun fact — H&M have grey shopping bags to help you carry your stuff around while still shopping — pick one up as soon as you walk in

I don’t think any of us expected it to be this cheap.
Finally, an international retailer that hasn’t slapped on a prohibitive Australia Tax, rendering things more expensive than they should be *cough Apple cough* and making us cry into our breakfast cereal.
I made a special trip here last time I was in Melbourne to make hay and blow bills on their cheap, well-​fitting schtuff. Seriously, why does their stuff fit so good? It’s like the size model was my identical twin. I can grab any Medium and it fits like a glove. I can even grab any glove and they too fit like a glove.
I’m kind of skurred for when it opens in Sydney in October. Bye bye pay packet. Bye bye.

I have been to H&M a few times now & every time it just stresses me out! I am a big fan of H&M & love all their overseas stores but the one in Melbourne is just packed full of clothes, customers & staff. I actually find myself struggling to breath at times, yes dramatic but seriously not the retail therapy I look for when shopping.
The place is simply stunning & I could look up at the ceilings for hours, the staff seem friendly enough & the clothes are very reasonably priced aside from of course anything I actually like, always the way though.
Maybe I will wait another few months for the hype to die down & give it another shot.

I love H&M and glad that there is a store on the Australian shores and the range of products are more appropriate to the seasons here.
This particular store is the flagship and first store and is huge! Taking up almost the whole Melbourne GPO building.
My favourite products is generally the accessories but I do also like the designs at H&M too.

I’ve shopped in a few H&M stores around the world before and they’ve always been great for a few cheap bits of clothing when you’re running low on clean clothes in your suitcase and spending a morning at a laundromat is just unthinkable, so when I heard that Melbourne was getting one, I knew that I’d stop in there sooner or later.
I really don’t understand why people lined up for so long to get in here, but once the lines died down and we happened to be passing by we headed inside. It was still busy, but the deals were good and the clothing looks to be good quality too.
The layout of the store is a little confusing, especially for the menswear section. Once you head to the third floor you can’t even see where it is, hidden behind the children’s section, and then there are nooks and crannies and little rooms everywhere, with clothes all over the place and no easy way to find what you’re looking for. I was after a new jacket and they aren’t all in one place, they’re in every place.
The prices were good enough to bring me back once they hype has died down even more. H&M isn’t worth lining up for, but it is worth checking out still. Just don’t go in needing to go to the toilet… there isn’t one to be found for customers anywhere on their three floors!

Hmm some good finds i think. It’s a great fit-​out and building inside, but
due to the overwhelming amount of people choking the store, it’s a little hard
to do anything when you’re constantly dodging people every which way, and fighting your way through impossible crowds. Ridiculously huge queue for the cash resisters, and so when there’s so much waiting involved for anything as well as a draining experience to shop or walk without being interrupted through the store, that it’s ulttimately not worth it.

I have to admit, I was not a fan waiting in line to shop but with the recent 17kg drop in weight, I needed to dig in and shop. I have to say that it was incredible. I have been to H&M in the USA and did not find it at all interesting.
Australia’s Version has impressed me and I will be back!

H&M, a new shopping place which opened at Melbourne’s GPO building, is a eye-​gouging store filled with amazing products for reasonable prices. It doesn’t disappoint when the need for new clothes, or a completely new outfit, arises and it surely doesn’t disappoint when you finally take your products over to the areas to pay and you see the bill that you are required to pay.
When I first heard about H&M I never fully understood the reason as to why people are queuing up for the store. I figured to myself that it would be one of those shops that are incredibly overpriced and is unaffordable for the average consumer. Contrary to my knowledge it turns out to be the ONE AND ONLY store that I can consider myself in love with.
Now I realise falling in love with a physical building is quite weird or in some cases taboo… *ehem* Objectophilia. But I have found this store quite pleasing when it comes to my clothing needs. Over the last few weeks I have visited this store numerous amounts of times hoping to ‘browse’ their products, only to find out that I am walking out of the store with a bag, or two, of fine products which has now made its way to my daily fashion.
The prices of H&M is, quite frankly, staggering. Men’s clothing ranges from singlets which are prices around about $ 7 all the way to the most expensive blazer which will set you back $ 150. Women, on the other hand, have many more options which ranges from a staggering $ 6 (which let’s face it is the norm for most women’s clothing anyways) to a whopping $ 450 (which quite frankly is absurd and should never have been stocked at the place. But hey if someone’s happy to pay that much for a dress then so be it haha)
The quality is also something to talk about. From the products that I have bought over the few trips I have had to H&M I have found them to be of up most quality. The clothes feel great, and you won’t find loose threads on the clothing which ends up unravelling just like the clothes I bought from DFO stores (or maybe I was just incredibly unlucky). The accessories, such as the shoes I bought, feels great on the feet and although it is still going through its breaking-​in process I can say that these will be the shoes I will most likely wear whenever I go out, socially or formally.
Overall H&M is the new go-​to place to shop for new clothes. This new store has got amazing fashion, amazing quality and most of all amazing prices. I surely will be coming back to H&M for all my clothing needs. Because hey, if it ain’t H&M… it ain’t H&M…
*Total failure of an attempt to create a joke as a ending*

Well laid out store, super friendly staff and a great range to suit all.
I was here on opening morning. Nuts I know but worth it. The staff were really helpful with bags, finding sizes and generally being awesome.
Despite the literally hundreds of people bustling around the store was kept neat and tidy.
Love the way they have utilised the space in the GPO. Each of the three levels has a check out points.
Make sure you get to level three and find the secret stash of home wares. Then grab yourself a rather dapper looking whale!