Laura Gannon

Dress Tim Ryan

Tights Fogal

Oisin Byrne

Top Issey Miyake

Trousers Stella McCartney

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Claire O’Sullivan

Top Tim Ryan

Jacket Tim Ryan

Pa Byrne

TShirt SKW

Shoes Reebok

Aoife Gallagher won the big prize of the night for her beautiful lantern-like design

Lynn Allen came runner-up for her feathery, studded creation

and Ciara Glynn for her pearl armour.

Congrats to all the winners and kudos to those who didn’t win but put a great show on

Check out knitwear maestro Tim Ryan’s new collection in News&Reviews here

This year the student designers had to use Nokia’s latest handset the Supernova as an inspiration for their designs. Result: highly conceptual shapes in PVC, tafetta, nylon, structured necklines, hemlines, and sleeves, lots of black, neon, navy…it’s always intersting to see how a an inanimate object like a phone can inspire sometimes fluid, moving, shining, pretty clothes. Thumbs up to all the students for a job well done.

Photos: Sarah McIntyre and Arsheen Q

Aine Kilbride

Grafton Academy

Skirt: Own design

Aoife Gallagher

NCAD

Dress: own design

Sara Swan

Grafton Academy

Top: own design

Clare Geraghty

NCAD

Shoes: Second hand, London

Celine Sheridan

Limerick Senior College

Top: Mum’s

Gerard Hancox

NCAD

Shirt: Abercrombie & Fitch

Stacey Grant

LSAD

Cape: Vintage/customised

Lyn Allen

NCAD

Dress and Jacket: Own design

Suzanne Acton

NCAD

Jeans: Paris

Joelle Jeejeebhoy

LSAD

Dress: Topshop

Carla Murphy

NCAD

Jacket: Joanne Power

Siofra Caherty

NCAD

Boots: Vintage Chanel, Paris

Mia O’Connell

Shirt: Mum’s

Yvonne Fleming

Grafton Academy

Dress: Chilli Pepper

Lucia Poliakova

Limerick College of Further Education

Docs: Schuh

Stacey Wall

Hat: Topshop

Iryna Di Vito

Limerick Senior College

Ciara Glynn

LSAD

Dress: Beyond Retro

Gillian Noonan

NCAD

Jeans: New York

Caitriona Anglim

LSAD

Scarf: Vintage

These 20 finalists go head to head tonight at the Nokia Young Fashion Designer Award 09, in the old Habitat Building, College Green. We’ll be blogging back later with the results and more pics from the catwalk!

Blouse Chloé

Annie Gong

Katie Van Buren

Super fashion-blogger  Susie Bubble is one of the judges on this year’s Nokia Young Fashion Designer Award panel.  She’ll be joined by Brendan Mullane, senior menswear designer at Hermes, Louise Kennedy, and Godfrey Deeny, European Ed of Fashion Wire Daily on March 25th to judge the creations of twenty fashion design finalists.

The inspiration this year? The new Nokia Supernova collection

*Green smock top by Nice Day Designs

Models Doireann & Diana

Triona Costelloe

Coat Vintage, New York

Offshoot

Red Lemonade

The Portmanteau

And the not so new ones…

Male-Mode

I Blog Fashion

Bluebirds Are So Natural

all photos Sarah McIntyre

Also featured in The Dinner Jacket

Marilyn Bane