Irish couturier Claire O’Connor begins every working week on call. On Monday, she waits for the phone to ring. Invariably, it will – nearly every one of the major fashion houses have her number on speed dial. It is, in a sense, their emergency hotline. When the request comes in, she notes the details and prepares her kit of essential tools. Before long, she is whisked into a car and conveyed, with hushed urgency, to the privacy of a luxury hotel suite or the inner sanctum of a fashion showroom. On the other side of the door a quiet drama…

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