Marant Miyake marks with spray-paint, straw and spiritPARIS FASHION WEEK: Not many fashion designers can bring both a sense of playfulness and depth to their collections, but one…Thu Oct 07 2004 - 01:00
Opening the Dior to fashion's flashiest forecastAnimal rights protesters carrying placards denouncing John Galliano as a "Designer of Death" because of his use of fur failed…Wed Oct 06 2004 - 01:00
Plenty of Greek drama as Irish designer wows with flowing linesIn the shady cloister of an ancient convent lined with marble statues and Parthenon friezes, now part of the Beaux Arts School…Tue Oct 05 2004 - 01:00
Ready-to-wear hautes up with cool, billowing chiffonsHunting with hounds is set to be banned in the UK, but another kind of hunt is being intensified for the next big name in fashion…Wed Sept 22 2004 - 01:00
Beads and mirror glass set a shining exampleIf London fashion designers have their way, to judge from some of yesterday's catwalk shows, the modern woman in spring will …Tue Sept 21 2004 - 01:00
All this - and lobster for dinner tooA home on a lagoon-cum-lobster fishery with views of the Burren for €700,000-plus is in a world of its own, says Deirdre McQuillan…Thu Jul 15 2004 - 01:00
Estee Lauder dies, aged 97US: Estee Lauder who died on Saturday at her home in New York aged 97 was the last of a trinity of 20th century independent …Tue Apr 27 2004 - 01:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryIt is three hours by train from Trieste to Slovenia's capital, Ljubljana, about the same distance as Galway is from DublinMon Apr 05 2004 - 01:00
YSL maestro looks east, then bows out of fashion paradeAs the autumn/winter collections in Paris draw to a close this week, the modern female silhouette has been defined in many different…Mon Mar 08 2004 - 00:00
Lagerfeld features urban chic with a hard-edged daywear lookFRANCE: As the crowds filed out of the Chanel show in the Carrousel du Louvre yesterday alongside a ramp done up like a one-…Sat Mar 06 2004 - 00:00
Tyrone designer's avant garde style starts off weekThe autumn/winter 2004 collections, which opened in Paris yesterday, started a week that will see more than 80 catwalk presentations…Wed Mar 03 2004 - 00:00
Newcomers seen as hopes of British fashionAs the last of the catwalk shows brought London Fashion Week to a close yesterday there was little unanimity as to what stood…Thu Feb 19 2004 - 00:00
Touring fire-ravaged township with strong Irish linkLetter from Cape Town: Hout Bay, a much photographed fishing village and popular tourist spot well known to Irish holidaymakers…Thu Feb 12 2004 - 00:00
a/wear in the pink with a bright spring collectionPink polka dot sundresses, glitter tweed jackets and strawberry print tops seemed to sum up the light-hearted mood at a/wear'…Tue Feb 10 2004 - 00:00
Zara jumps straight off the catwalk into RochesThe Spanish fashion chain, Zara, finally opens its doors to the public in Dublin's Henry Street today, almost two years to the…Thu Nov 13 2003 - 00:00
Pastel tweed to sweetenPARIS FASHION WEEK: In a city that takes la mode as seriously as Paris, where Le Monde describes the heart as balancing between…Sat Oct 11 2003 - 01:00
Camouflage disappears as tutti frutti glowsLondon Fashion Week: Though the heat wave in London ended with a deluge yesterday, the mood at London Fashion Week was summery…Tue Sept 23 2003 - 01:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryThe recent replacement of the stuffed giraffe in the Museum of Natural History brings to mind the true story of a celebrated …Fri Feb 21 2003 - 00:00
