What women want

The Galaxy dress made designer Roland Mouret's a star. His secret? He knows what women really want, says Rachel Marie Walsh

ROLAND MOURET laughs as he recalls a recent visit to the capital. “The ladies in Dublin are crackers,” he says. I ask if he means they are good craic. “I mean they are like crackers, you know? They go off with a big bang and there are lots of surprises inside and a smell of gunpowder in the air!”

It is a cliché to say a male designer knows what women want but they do seem able to share anything with Mouret.