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Probably one of the busiest stylists in Ireland, Sarah Rickard has organised some of the most beautiful shoots our press has featured. I welcome you to visit her website www.sarahrickard.com and check out her blog Suree Things, it's one of my favourite fashion blogs, she shares lots of images from 'behind the scenes' of her shoots, some wonderful tips and pictures of her travels.
Photographs by Bela Adler y Salvador Fresneda
Can you keep a secret?????
Fashion bloggers are very frequently featuring their 'girl crushes'. I didn't want to be left out and thought I would share with you my no.1 crush ...Josep Font, who I have featured here and here before..
The first time I met him was 15 years ago...Was it love at first sight?..not at all...I was in love with him years before I met him.
I fell in love with his work as a teenager, but meeting him in person just confirmed my obssession would last for the rest of my days, and is as significant today as it was the first time I hid behind props to watch him perfect his girls on their way out to the catwalk
Have a wonderful weekend!
Eilis
Earlier this year actress Carey Mulligan was criticised for turning up (and winning) at the Baftas in a dress which was not by a British designer. I never understood why the controversy of her choosing the dress of her dreams, regardless where the creator is from.
Since when did fashion become an expression of one's patriotic responsibility?
You wouldn't expect everyone to wear American designs at the Oscars, so why the double standards when the occassion is 'regional'
Recent events in Ireland have proven that some press enjoy provoking the public with scandals regarding people's dress choice and the relationship this has with their national commitment...Does this make sense???
About a month ago the daughter of the former Taoiseach* decided to marry in a gown designed by Oscar de la Renta. The tabloid press picked up on the story and twisted it into an 'unpatriotic' affair. Irish designers where questioned and put on the spot about her choice of a foreign designer over an Irish one.
Part of the argument (apart from the baggage she carries from her father's actions as head of state) was the need for public figures to be seen as supporting local industry. But the irony is that what one person wears on a specific occasion will not change the state of our economy.
Should all countries adopt same campaign it would be the end of the Irish Fashion Industry. Everyone would be supporting their own indigenous designers and we would have nowhere to export too. .
I wonder if those who wrote, and those who favoured the debate against her choice, buy Irish labels on a regular basis? Probably not...and to make matters worse those same 'tabloids' abstained from using Irish designers in their fashion pages for many months in 2009 'for compassionate reasons' (hardly anything over a certain price was featured) bringing the small manufacturing facilities in the country to their knees. Making these 'journalists' partially responsable for the situation in the first place .
The conclusion...........well we should be free to choose whoever, wherever and whatever we want to wear and maybe it's time to practice what we preach....
*Taoiseach - head of Irish governement
Photograph by Baron Adolph de Meyer
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