News & Reviews
16.06.09 FABricated fashion show
A stellar collection of the latest in Irish fashion was presented at the FABricated
show where Ireland’s up ‘n coming designers showcased their talents under one roof.
From accessible, cute yellow shifts to couture-like bridal gowns, there’s a lot of promise
for Irish fashion yet. Aine Kilbride, Amy McAlinden, Jean Melia and Su Yung are hot names to watch.
25.03.09 Tim Ryan @ NYFDA 09
Photos Sarah McIntyre
22.03.09 8th Fashion Bloggers’ Brunch
Kildare Village Outlet hosted the 8th brunch with a shopping trip thrown in for kicks. Cute coral skirt in Reiss for less than half the original price. Also great discounts in Nike, Levi’s and All Saints. Worth the 25min train trip.
18.02.09 Gangsta boots and Gucci bags: Confessions of a Shopaholic in cinemas today!
Patricia Field on Rebecca Bloomwood’s first outfit in Confessions of a shopaholic:
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The outfits are in true Patricia Field fashion, with in-your-face colours, quirky details and big patterns.
16.02.09 Project A Apparel’s recession buster
Tees from €15-€20 at Project A Apparel right now! Influenced by street art, graffiti and graphics, Project A Apparel is an Irish T-shirt company that is using Continental clothing’s Earth Positive tees for its spring range. Both Fair Trade and carbon neutral.
07.02.09 7th Bloggers’ Brunch at The Clarence
Kudos to Annmarie once more for a successful full house at the 7th Fashion Bloggers’ Brunch. Yummy food and Clarins goody-bags, make happy bloggers.
05.02.09 American Apparel is finally here
27. 01.09 The Curved Street Cafe Market is back!
For cute dresses, paintings and cupcakes, upstairs in Filmbase, Curved St Temple bar on Jan 31st
27.01.09 Oxfam Bridal Event
Attention treasure seekers and bride-to-be-ers! Peruse tiaras and veils at a special preview evening of the Oxfambridal range at Oxfam on George’s St, Jan 29th 6.30-8pm.
19.01.09 The 6th Fashion Bloggers’ Brunch
The 6th one was a mighty-big one with 30 or so bloggers dining at the mighty-big Dylan. Lotsa newbies to the Irish fashion blogosphere (Red Lemonade, The Portmanteau, This is an Offshoot) bringing exciting new voices online and bringing lots of style to the… table. Quite Literally. And lotsa seasoned ones back too. See what they have to offer, as new street-style pics comin up soon.
22.12.08 Treasure box
If you’ve been a fan of the ditsy floral dresses, and 80s peplum frocks at Sharon and Lisa’s vintage stall up at The Loft in Powerscourt Townhouse, you’ll be even more ecstatic to know that they have just launched their new website Perk Up! Vintage with even more dresses and accessories to offer, right at your fingertips. At accessible prices, vintage is now more affordable thank to the sisters’ new venture. You can avoid the Christmas and sales zombie-wars out there, fill up your hot-water bottle and play dress up right in your own room.
26.08.08 Tim Ryan unveils SS09 collection at Motorola Dublin Fashion Week
Photos Sarah McIntyre
25.08.08 Motorola Dublin Fashion Week starts!
Photo Arsheen Q
Dublin Fashion Week starts tomorrow and the schedule is jam-packed with talks, awards and shows, most of them open to the public as well as the press. Watch out for the seminar with Sunday Independent Fashion Ed Constance Harris on Tuesday at 1pm in the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, Dublin 8. And don’t forget the collective catwalk show showcasing current Autumn/Winter 08 collections is also open to the public for €75 in the chq building, IFSC this Wednesday! For further info on events and talks check out Dublin Fashion Week
Mr Jones @ The Bernard Shaw
Part of their series of one-off parties, Bodytonic had a little ‘do’ tonight to launch their blog with a fashion show and some good ol’ food and punch at the usual haunt The Bernard Shaw. Check out the slammin street style at the show
Rockstar bag
All hail the cross-body bag. If you’ve had it with kitchen-sink sized bags, drooping shoulders, losing keys and pens in the black-hole at the bottom of your oversize, then Asos.com have this rockin’ quilted and studded over-body bag. Perfect for a chapstick, a house key and a biro. Part Chanel. Part Rock. Charock. Or Rocknel we call it. See Miss Deyn sporting one.
Photos: Asos.com
Ireland’s Abercrombie?
Launched by Blarney Woollen Mills, the new, trendy line called Farrell&Brown is now also available at the Killarney Outlet Centre.Other stores open on Dawson Street, Blarney, County Cork and Carrick On Suir, Co Tipperary.
Topman’s Lens gets ready for Autumn!
I love men’s clothes, I even find myself sneaking into Topman sometimes and buying the odd hat or lumberjack shirt for myself leave alone for the men in my life. Now Topman has announced the second season of a designer project called Lens with a sixth hot, new young designer added to the collective- Kasper Harup – Hansen. His collection for Lens is “about volume, craftsmanship, size, and silhouettes. Cotton over sized shirts are teamed with cropped waistcoats, layered with a bomber jacket, and completed with a slim cut trouser. An assortment of wools, leathers and cottons make the collection diverse in texture as well as proportions.”
Going online very soon! Get your credit cards out!