A decade-long collaboration with Dunnes Stores has taken Joanne Hynes mainstream, but the fashion designer has kept her avant-garde sensibility and channelled it into a variety of artistic ventures, discovers Marie Kelly.

For the first time, Galway designer Colin Burke’s new collection includes knitted separates to pair with his iconic architectural-sleeve sweaters and cardigans. Marie Kelly meets the designer whose star continues to rise.

Ireland’s contemporary fashion brands are using fifth-generation processes and 70-year-old knitters to create sustainable styles that are both sexy and modern, explains Marie Kelly.