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What a way for Irish designer Simone Rocha to start the year. Her debut on the haute couture stage — when she accepted Jean Paul Gaultier’s invitation to be his guest designer for SS24 — was a critical success last month and has copper-fastened her reputation on the international fashion scene as one of the coolest, most original designers to follow.

The installation took a year to create and consists of a mixture of pencil/digital drawings.

First Fortnight CEO Maria Fleming discusses the festival’s role in using the arts as a powerful conversation starter around mental health.

The late artist Fiona Cribben would have celebrated her 43rd birthday next Tuesday but her 13-year-old son, Johnny, and her family have a very special ‘gratitude’ scarf to wear. – one she collaborated on in her final months. “One thing I would love to do before I head off onto my next best life would be to change the way we look at cancer,” Fiona wrote to Electronic Sheep designers, Helen Delany and Brenda Aherne, in 2018, a year before her death from metastatic breast cancer. “I gu...

All those waiting for their dates under that iconic meeting spot of Clerys’ clock on Dublin’s O’Connell Street probably had a good look in the shop’s windows as they waited for fate, and romance. Many of the window displays were the handiwork of Eileen Delany, who had great style and ridiculously good taste in clothes. She wore a lot of John Rocha’s Chinatown range and Paul Costelloe’s Dressage range, and shopped at Brown Thomas and The Design Centre. Eileen’s catchphrase, as she ...