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Dolly Parton, in a floor-length fuchsia sequinned dress, crosses a darkened concert stage at Wolf Trap in 2011.
Fashion

Dolly Parton, 1946–2026: The Woman Who Knew Exactly What She Was Doing

She refused Elvis, kept her copyrights, built an industry in the county she was born in, and let the world underestimate her for sixty years. Dolly Parton has died at 80 — and the free books are still going out in Tallaght and Cork this month.

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A wall densely covered with hundreds of patterned neckties
Fashion

The Tie Does Nothing. That Is the Whole Point.

It began as a rag round a soldier's neck and became the most reliably gendered object in the wardrobe. Four centuries later the tie has lost the battlefield, the office, the knot - and, on TikTok, the neck. What is left is the only part that never had a use.

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Dawn, Davinia and Cleo Knight at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival
Race Fashion

Keeping Up with the Knights

A rented dress won €10,000 at Galway. A charity-shop hat won a weekend at Ashford Castle. A pair of curtains won a sustainability title at the Curragh. Three sisters from Portarlington on how they actually do it - and why the one who left school with fewer than 100 points has the most to say.

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Race Fashion

Race Style & Social: The Account Documenting Irish Race Fashion

2,363 posts across fifteen racecourses. Inside the vertical-video operation that has quietly built the fullest record of what Ireland actually wears to the races.

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Lifestyle & Home

byReidin: The Bow, The Bags and The Woman Behind Them

Structured mini bags with a signature bow, from €15 to €265, made by a woman who spent 28 years flying for Virgin Atlantic — and still does.

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Lifestyle & Home

Maya Grisham: The Pint, The Packet and The Craft Behind Them

A crystal pint with a pearl head, a €750 block of Kerrygold and a €3,000 packet of Tayto. Inside Kimberly Tino's range — and the hand-set craft that makes the joke land.

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A bay thoroughbred in a bridle, photographed against a black background
Race Fashion

Killarney's Best Dressed Day 2026: Two Winners Under the Reeks

Sylvia Novak took the Canella Lane title in Rita Daly millinery and recycled-plastic jewellery. Gary Moynihan took the men's in burgundy and navy. Judged, on the most scenic track in Ireland, by two women who came to it from very different directions.

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A person in a yellow hooded raincoat on a wet road surrounded by mist and rain
Fashion

The Rain Is Not a Phase

Ireland gets up to 225 rain days a year and rarely drops below 6C - a combination that quietly defeats most of the outerwear people actually own.

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Catwalk

Chanel Métiers d'art Heads to Rome

Matthieu Blazy takes the house's showcase of its specialist ateliers to Rome on 2 December — a city Gabrielle Chanel returned to again and again.

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Paul Costelloe at his working desk with a handbag prototype and design drawings
Catwalk

Ireland Fashion Week 2026: Year Two, and the First Without Paul Costelloe

Seventy-five designer slots, eight shows and up to 80% of production costs covered. Ireland Fashion Week's second edition runs 7–12 October — with no venue, line-up or ticket yet announced.

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Catwalk

Dublin Independent Fashion Week Grows Up

Four years from a volunteer designer collective to a registered non-profit with a board — and a campaign to have fashion recognised as a fundable art form. 10–16 September.

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Catwalk

Paris Fashion Week SS27: Three Debuts and a House in Limbo

Drew Henry at Courrèges, Kai Nesselrath at Carven, and Alaïa showing without a creative director. 101 labels, 28 September to 6 October.

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Catwalk

Milan Fashion Week SS27: The First September Without Him

Giorgio Armani's show falls days after the first anniversary of his death, Moschino gets new designers, and Versace is conspicuously absent. 22–28 September.

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Mannequins dressed in neutral clothing behind a large boutique shop window
Fashion

Who Owns Luxury Now

LVMH, Kering, Prada and a Saudi sovereign wealth fund: a plain reading of who actually owns the clothes in 2026, and which of the year's designer appointments still stand.

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Catwalk

London Fashion Week SS27: McQueen Comes Home

Seán McGirr brings McQueen back to London after twenty-five years in Paris, Christopher Kane debuts at Mulberry, and M&S walks a runway for the first time. 17–21 September.

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An overhead arrangement of wide-brimmed felt and straw hats against a dark background
Fashion

Irish Millinery Beyond the Racecourse

Ireland's milliners have published prices, imported blocks and no degree course - a real craft trade the country photographs once a year, on a Thursday in July.

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Catwalk

Ten Modelling Agencies Shaping European Fashion

From a Chelsea office that found Kate Moss to a Copenhagen house built on an ethics charter — the agencies that decide who walks, and the fight over who owns a face.

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Rails of secondhand clothing filling a bright charity shop interior
Fashion

Ireland's Secondhand Economy

Separate textile collection became law in January 2025 and Vinted's GMV hit EUR 10.8bn, yet Ireland reuses only 4,660 tonnes of clothing a year.

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Hands guiding woven cloth through the warp threads of a wooden handloom
Fashion

Woven in Donegal, Made in Morocco

Irish heritage cloth still carries a place name. Increasingly the garment is finished somewhere else - and the label rarely says so.

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Models waiting backstage at a fashion show in dark wool tailoring, shearling and satin
Fashion

Autumn/Winter 2026: What's Actually Changing

Strip out the recycled trend language and a handful of real shifts are left. Here is what genuinely moved this season, and what only sounded like it did.

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A model walking a darkened runway in a navy velvet gown embroidered with red and white flowers
Fashion

The Irish Designers To Know Right Now

A man from Magherafelt runs Dior and a Dubliner is London's most consequential independent — the case for Irish design in 2026 is structural, not sentimental.

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Women in vivid dresses and elaborate hats at a racecourse
Race Fashion

Galway Races 2026: Two Winners, and a Shift in Irish Race Style

€13,000 in prizes, 124,745 racegoers and a week at Ballybrit that traded last year's make-do-and-mend charm for something altogether more bespoke.

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Race Fashion

Two Days at the Curragh

The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby weekend ran two style competitions. A pink Irish linen suit made in Naples, worn with shoes from Marks & Spencer, won Saturday's open award - and its winner was the only man among ten finalists.

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Catwalk

Max Mara in Shanghai: The House That Went East

Every other mega-house took Cruise 2027 west. Max Mara marked its 75th birthday in a brutalist Shanghai museum, with an entirely Asian cast and a coat as the argument.

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