'After raising the kids, I felt everything had changed and I had dropped the ball'

Jacinta Caraher, chief executive of wedding dress company Purple Peach, talks about creating an online presence and battling Brexit

Purple Peach chief executive Jacinta Caraher. Picture: photographsforeverbybarbs

Jacinta Caraher’s career in fashion has endured several beginnings.

It may have started the moment she received a sewing machine on Christmas day as a child, or after she won a bridal competition for her wedding dress which she handmade in the late 90s, or after she went from a studio in her mother's house to her own working space in an old stone building.