‘Celtic Twilight’: These are the Irish fashion designers you need to know now

From New York to London and Paris, Irish fashion designers are storming the catwalks. Here Paul McLauchlan highlights some of the most important Irish creatives on the scene

Some of the new wave of homegrown fashion.

Are we experiencing an Irish renaissance? The arts are thriving, despite being starved of funding. Promising talents like Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, and Kerry Condon are enjoying a prosperous awards season in Hollywood; on stage, Alison Oliver is taking theatre by storm, Mescal too. The local music landscape is increasingly spawning emerging talents like ethereal songwriter and poetess Sinead O Brien. Sally Rooney kickstarted a literary revolution a few years ago; and the art world is revealing its next generation too.

In fashion, an industry that fuses visual arts with the basic necessity of dressmaking, there are plenty of names to be excited about. At the recent instalment of London Fashion Week, there were seven designers from Ireland on the schedule. From New York to London and Paris, Irish talent is blossoming like never before. Here, we have highlighted some of the most important Irish designers to know now.