Coats, colour and clean lines, these are the latest updates from Irish designers Alison Conneely, The Landskein and Caroline Kilkenny …
For autumn, The Landskein creates a 15-piece collection of Irish tweed tailored coats and blazers, for its “conscious, curious, and connected” customer. Each piece is cut in limited numbers by a small family-owned tailoring company who also produce for store fashion houses such as Burberry and Acne. Our pick is the dove-grey Celie double-breasted fine Donegal lambswool tweed coat, above, €950. www.thelandskein.com.
Bold and bright is the mood for autumn according to Irish designer Caroline Kilkenny whose new collection is inspired by the clean lines and vibrancy of the 1990s supermodel era. Her favourite AW22 outfit? The Sammy blouse, €149, and Mia trousers, €184, (pictured); not only do they drape in all the right places, the cobalt blue colour “is fantastic on Irish skin tones”, Kilkenny says. www.carolinekilkenny.com.
Connemara designer Alison Conneely collaborates with the United Nations Population Fund, as well as a flock of international artists, to create a series of nine silk scarves, akin to tapestries. Each one is, as Conneely puts it, a battle cry for reproductive rights, equality and justice for women. Each scarf re-interprets an ancient female myth or legend from the past, executed in a wash of colour on delicate silk. See an exhibition of the scarves at the Clifden Arts Festival, which runs from September 15 to 25. www.alisonconneely.com.
