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June 2022

Olive Foley with Joanne Skelly at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival. Picture by Fergal Phillips

Hat a girl — Olive’s off to Dubai after Derby dress proves runaway winner

Olive Foley, the widow of the late Munster and Ireland rugby star Anthony ‘Axel’ Foley, scooped the top prize for Most Stylish Lady at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh yesterday.

April 2022

Lia Cowan, whose designs have been worn on the 'Bridgerton' publicity tour, with a model wearing a dress from her ballet-inspired collection. Photo: Zoe Ardiff

Spotlight at ARC fashion show will be on brilliance and resilience of Irish designers

The tenacity of Irish fashion designers to adapt in the face of the changing retail landscape comes into sharp focus in Dublin tonight .

Sophie Drumgoole, Robyn Gavin and Clodagh Cummins at the re opening of Penneys Store on Mary Street in Dublin in 2020. Photo by Steve Humphreys

Penneys launches new website for customers to check stock

Primark has launched its website in the UK to allow customers to browse stock and check availability before heading to stores.

February 2022

Nathali Turner wearing Una Burke belt and bag, Lou Brennan scarf as a dress, Aria V necklace, Daki earrings and George Horn gloves at Showcase. Photo: Leon Farrell/Photocall

Keeping business in the family is secret to success at Showcase creative expo

Keeping the business in the family is always good and if you have heritage roots, and they go back generations, then better again.

A model wears Irish designer Colin Horgan's creation at London Fashion Week. Photo: Ryan Rivers

Irish designer Colin Horgan draws on the strength of women in his family to inspire London Fashion Week digital show

Colin Horgan’s AW22 collection has been presented on London Fashion Week’s digital schedule and with a short film made in Dublin.

A model walks the runway for Simone Rocha's London Fashion Week show. Photo: Ben Broomfield

Irish designer Simone Rocha brings the Children of Lir to London Fashion Week

Feathers in white flounced skirts, embroidered swans visible through sheer voile and shoes, glistening as if wet, with toes pointed like beaks.

Paul Costelloe at Sumosan Twiga, London during London Fashion Week

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Timeless fashion: From Renaissance-era golds to Tudor stylings, Paul Costelloe is still taking fashion risks at 76

"This is as much a political statement as a fashion statement and I am very proud of that."

Brown Thomas presents the new spring/summer 2022 international luxury designer collections in a uniquely produced virtual show. Pictured is a model wearing the Roksanda dress €2,240. Photo: Perry Ogden

True colours: Brown Thomas spring options usher Covid darkness away

Aspirational luxury fashion never fails to distract and brighten up those early days of spring, and this year the Brown Thomas options speak volumes about where we are after enduring two years of a pandemic.

January 2022

Thierry Mugler virtually invented fashion as showmanship. Picture by Remy de la Mauviniere

Obituary: Thierry Mugler, French fashion genius whose designs amazed and outraged in equal measure

Thierry Mugler, who has died aged 73, was the unpredictable genius of avant-garde French fashion; his extravagant, futuristic designs reflected his background in theatre and his childhood love of film.

September 2021

Animal rights group urges Kate Moss to ditch fur after Saint Laurent decision

A leading animal rights organisation has written to Kate Moss urging her to give up wearing fur after luxury French fashion brand Saint Laurent announced it would stop using the material.

Consumers should buy half as many new clothes and retailers should repair them – London Fashion Week told

Consumers should buy half as many new clothes and fashion retailers should focus on selling second hand products and repairing goods in-store, the organiser of London Fashion Week has said.

A design by Richard Malone at London Fashion Week. Photos: Chris Yates

Bairbre Power Opinion Beneath the vaulted ceilings of the V&A, Richard Malone brings a stylish touch of the GAA to London Fashion Week

As settings go, it couldn’t have been any more dramatic. Under the vaulted ceilings of the Victorian and Albert Museum (V&A) in South Kensington, Wexford man Richard Malone unveiled his latest collection at London Fashion Week.

Keke Palmer was among the early arrivals at the Met Gala (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Met Gala 2021: Anna Wintour and Timothee Chalamet among early arrivals

Stars including Dame Anna Wintour, Keke Palmer and Timothee Chalamet were among the early arrivals at the Met Gala.

All looks by Dries Van Noten. Photo: Perry Ogden

The new Brown Thomas Autumn/Winter collection: Vibrant colours are clue to fashion’s optimism

The colours are the clue to the fashion world’s sense of optimism.

August 2021

Model Katie wearing a gown created with satin ribbons and glass rods. A collaboration by designer Helen Hayes and glass artist Laura Quinn, it was unveiled at the CIFD digital showcase

Glassy dresser: Digital showcase highlights the creativity of designers

Innovation and originality is the name of the game for Irish fashion designers who display a great flair for creativity for Autumn/Winter ’21.

Giles Deacon’s officewear collection for IWG put the emphasis on loose-fitting clothes. Photo: Matt Crossick/PA Wire

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How to dress now for the hybrid workplace

Fashion designer Giles Deacon recently teamed up with IWG to reimagine the traditional work wardrobe for the post-pandemic age.

July 2021

The buyer of the Iridescence dress, which sold at auction for $9,500 in 2019, 'wearing' her dress

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This dress doesn’t exist outside a screen. So why did it sell for $9,500? Welcome to fashion’s digital future

A model is walking on a New York street, wearing a metallic poncho that floats and glimmers in the wind. In the store window behind, however, the model’s reflection shows only a black bodysuit and leggings. The poncho doesn’t exist in the physical world: it’s a digital creation being tested for the ‘screenwear’ try-on app ZERO10. Though not yet seamless — it’s still a little glitchy when the model moves — the clip offers a glimpse into the future of digital fashion, and perhaps the future of fashion as a whole.

Sorcha O'Raghallaigh, who is among the designers featured in Brown Thomas's CREATE 2021 showcase

Designer to the stars Sorcha O’Raghallaigh: ‘I never fit the fashion mould’

‘I don’t think I even knew you could be a fashion designer until age 13. But as soon as I knew you could, that was what I was determined to be,” laughs Sorcha O’Raghallaigh, the Offaly designer whose subsequent graduate collection from Central Saint Martins would attract the attention of Lady Gaga, and whose pieces have also been worn by Madonna, Kate Moss and Beyoncé.

June 2021

Vintage Sybil Connolly fabric used by Laoise Carey in her spring/summer collection

Style notes: Diana’s revenge dress and the timeless florals that will never fall out of fashion

Next month marks the 40th anniversary of the wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles.

Model Maria wearing a design by NCAD student Stephanie Finney from her Easing Restrictions collection. Photo: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Covid couture: Student scoops €4,000 Brown Thomas prize for lockdown-inspired fashion line

When Stephanie Finney’s mother bought her a small Ikea sewing set when she was 12, it was an investment that would pay off very handsomely.

May 2021

The ultimate winner was 33-year-old Catherine Furlong, a primary school teacher from Ballintober, New Ross, Co. Wexford.

Wexford woman scoops first best-dressed award of racing season – and Impressionist painters were her style inspo

Impressionist painters were the inspiration for a Wexford woman who has scooped top prize at the first racing style event of the season.

April 2021

Sole trader: Niamh D'Arcy, co-owner of Dress Circle and Scarlet Slippers, two boutiques side by side in Terenure in Dublin, is promoting new stock via Facebook and Instagram. Photo: Steve Humphreys

Browse by appointment ‘could be key to return’ of joys of in-store shopping

Fashion retailers are pleading for ‘browsing by appointment’ to help them get back to business in a safe way.

March 2021

Bladesmith Sam Gleeson from Ennistymon, Co Clare, who makes bespoke knives, was one of the winners. Photo: Coalesce

Sharp minds: Five innovators receive €10,000 bursary to give crafty designs a leg-up in retail

In an ideal world, fashion designer Ciara Allen would love men and women to be sharing the same outfits.

Short orders: Actor Paul Mescal wore the O'Neill's shorts on screen and in public. Photo: Enda Bowe

The ‘Mescal effect’ kicked off surge in O’Neills shorts sales

A so-called ‘Paul Mescal effect’ has been credited with contributing to a 20pc increase in the sales of O’Neills shorts in 2020.

DESIRABLE BAGS: A model poses with a Dior handbag. The luxury label is
coming to Brown Thomas in Dublin this October

Insta moment as Dior to open its first Irish store in Brown Thomas

Luxury fashion designer Dior is to open its first Irish boutique in Brown Thomas on Dublin's Grafton Street this autumn.

February 2021

Creeping flowers: Wallpaper prints are patch-worked together to disorientate in Simone Rocha’s AW21 collection at LFW. Photo: Andrew Nuding

January 2021

LOOKING THE PART: Louis Copeland wearing a ‘swacket’, which he predicts will be ‘the big trend’ when offices reopen. Photo: Steve Humphreys

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June 2022

Hat a girl — Olive’s off to Dubai after Derby dress proves runaway winner

April 2022

Spotlight at ARC fashion show will be on brilliance and resilience of Irish designers

Penneys launches new website for customers to check stock

February 2022

Keeping business in the family is secret to success at Showcase creative expo

Irish designer Colin Horgan draws on the strength of women in his family to inspire London Fashion Week digital show

Irish designer Simone Rocha brings the Children of Lir to London Fashion Week

Timeless fashion: From Renaissance-era golds to Tudor stylings, Paul Costelloe is still taking fashion risks at 76

True colours: Brown Thomas spring options usher Covid darkness away

January 2022

Obituary: Thierry Mugler, French fashion genius whose designs amazed and outraged in equal measure

September 2021

Animal rights group urges Kate Moss to ditch fur after Saint Laurent decision

Consumers should buy half as many new clothes and retailers should repair them – London Fashion Week told

Bairbre Power Opinion Beneath the vaulted ceilings of the V&A, Richard Malone brings a stylish touch of the GAA to London Fashion Week

Met Gala 2021: Anna Wintour and Timothee Chalamet among early arrivals

The new Brown Thomas Autumn/Winter collection: Vibrant colours are clue to fashion’s optimism

August 2021

Glassy dresser: Digital showcase highlights the creativity of designers

How to dress now for the hybrid workplace

July 2021

This dress doesn’t exist outside a screen. So why did it sell for $9,500? Welcome to fashion’s digital future

Designer to the stars Sorcha O’Raghallaigh: ‘I never fit the fashion mould’

June 2021

Style notes: Diana’s revenge dress and the timeless florals that will never fall out of fashion

Covid couture: Student scoops €4,000 Brown Thomas prize for lockdown-inspired fashion line

May 2021

Wexford woman scoops first best-dressed award of racing season – and Impressionist painters were her style inspo

April 2021

Browse by appointment ‘could be key to return’ of joys of in-store shopping

March 2021

Sharp minds: Five innovators receive €10,000 bursary to give crafty designs a leg-up in retail

The ‘Mescal effect’ kicked off surge in O’Neills shorts sales

Insta moment as Dior to open its first Irish store in Brown Thomas

February 2021

Winter roses – and three graces of silk, leather and satin – among the thorns for Simone Rocha’s new collection

Cancer survivor embraces style to raise much-needed research funds

Harry Clarke’s St Brigid gets UN outing as ambassador wears new fashion design

January 2021

'Business is down 90pc, but you have to keep moving and adapt' - tailor Louis Copeland

Simone Rocha becomes the first Irish designer to do a collaboration with H&M

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