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Full coverage: Fashion

Fashion has three years to solve its waste crisis – but how?

As clothes banks and charity shops overflow, Ireland is preparing for extended producer responsibility textile legislation. Industry experience shows solutions are nuanced and take time and co-operation.

Laura Hayes
15th Aug, 2025 - 5 min read

Karl Lagerfeld retail business to pull shutters down on Kildare Village outlet

Directors of the Irish retail business of the late fashion designer are winding down its operations next month, according to newly filed accounts.

Jonathan Keane
6th Aug, 2025 - 2 min read

Scaling Beauty: The Irish brands expanding internationally

Each March, the population of Bologna in Italy swells by over a quarter of a million visitors who make their way to the BolognaFiere exhibition centre for Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna. Ruth O’Connor visited the show and spoke to the Irish contingent there.

Ruth O'Connor
7th Apr, 2025 - 9 min read

The art of expansion: A knitwear designer on heritage, scaling up, and the limitations of keeping it Irish

What happens when the creative reimagining of the Aran sweater goes global? Galway designer Colin Burke answers the call of the international luxury consumer.

Rosaleen McMeel
12th Mar, 2025 - 5 min read

New Look’s Irish demise: The end of the road for the high-street fashion brand

Long-suffering fashion brand New Look is to close in Ireland. The removal of financial support from its UK parent was the final blow in a long story of decline.

Francesca Comyn
20th Feb, 2025 - 4 min read

Fashion rental firm Drobey pops up in the Dean Hotel in Dublin as it eyes further expansion

Nicky and Ella Dwyer are the founders of Drobey based in Monkstown, Co Dublin. As they gear up for the Christmas party market, they explain how they plan to grow further.

Tom Lyons
7th Nov, 2024 - 3 min read

“We’re back to bootstrapping, but we’re doing better than ever”

In 2016, Tom Cotter began toying with the idea of making clothes for water sports enthusiasts. After eight years of hard knocks, his company OceanR is now backed by some of Ireland’s savviest business people – and primed for more.

Thomas Hubert
16th Aug, 2024 - 18 min read

Depop disaster: Why an Irish subsidiary of Etsy booked a $1.4bn write-off

Two years ago, the popular homeware and gifts marketplace branched into fashion with a $1.6bn UK acquisition. The Dublin holding company conducting the deal has now wiped 90% off its value.

Thomas Hubert
1st Nov, 2023 - 3 min read

A fashionable industry? Nine graphs that tell the story of Pamela Scott (and Irish retail)

An analysis of the retailer’s financial performance over a four-year period shows the full extent of its Covid restructuring, and the issues impacting the wider retail sector.

Ian Kehoe
9th Jun, 2023 - 3 min read

Why bother getting good at that thing you’re trying to do. Just amass followers. Celebrity. Wins. Out.

Maybe I want to read books written by three-legged weirdos who have never heard of Elon Musk and aren’t on Twitter. God forbid. Maybe I don’t want to buy badly designed handbags with PHARRELL written across them for $800; I rather like my Foreign Affairs bag that I got with my subscription for free.

Sinead O'Sullivan
28th Feb, 2023 - 7 min read
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