This article highlights two young Irish talents making waves in the fashion industry: a sustainable fashion designer and a rising model.
As a new year gets into gear, here are the artists, entrepreneurs, activists and musicians set to shake things up. One is a Limerick School of Art and Design honours BA graduate with a master’s degree in sustainable fashion and textiles from the Royal Danish Academy. An independent fashion designer, she works in the hip multicultural neighbourhood of Norrebro, is pursuing a PhD in sustainability supported by TUS Rise and is on a knitwear residency in the Faroe Islands.
Turning Blue, her first collection of woven textiles was designed and made in collaboration with Woven in the Bone artisan weavers in Scotland. The hooded jackets, shorts, slouchy trousers and floor-length coats in distorted herringbone – contemporary versions of classic tweeds – were supplemented with pieces in embroidered denim deadstock. “My biggest influence was [Name] and what she did with Harris tweed,” says Dowling, who describes working with tweed as like moulding clay. She is from Listowel, Co Kerry, and her deep-rooted love of nature and the environment is central to her work. In June she was part of a group of cutting-edge sustainable fashion designers selected for the influential menswear show Pitti Uomo in Florence sponsored by French multinational Kering, which described her as “merging her Irish heritage with Danish design flair”. Her new collection will be launched later this year. Another is an Irish model who made her modelling debut as a schoolgirl last January, opening the Dior haute couture show at the Musée Rodin in Paris, a coup for a young, inexperienced Irish model. She hasn’t looked back since. Dior shot her for its holiday 2024 and prefall campaigns and its summer campaign for Vogue. She comes from Omagh, Co Tyrone, and was scouted by IMG modelling agency in 2021. She moved to London after her A Levels, and her first job walking for J W Anderson SS24 at London Fashion Week. She continues to work for Dior in Manchester, Chanel haute couture in Paris and most recently in Hong Kong
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