This much I know: Heidi Higgins, Fashion Designer

Fashion is 80% about running a business and 20% about the design.

Luckily, I’m good at wearing many different hats. What I actually do every day is very different to what I might have imagined a designer would do on a day-to-day basis. My responsibilities vary so much — today, I’m in my boutique serving customers as one of my girls is on holidays. Tomorrow it could be a day of admin and emails; the next I could be working on my spring summer collection and ordering fabrics for next year.

I graduated from fashion in NCAD in 2008, worked for a year with Louise Kennedy — fantastic experience — launched my own label in 2009 and opened my own boutique in Portlaoise in Mar 2010.