You don’t have to be Edie Sedgwick or Twiggy to rock a mini, says PaulaBurns, who reckons minis are the jewel of the fashion world.

Improved access to the examinership process has seen a near-50% rise in the number of jobs saved in SMEs this year, according to new data.

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Lily Allen's fashion firm has reportedly gone bust.

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Prim and proper rocks an edge this season

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We're on the street in Cork and Dublin this week to see what threads you're wearing.

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Street Trend meets Belfast’s Tara Marzuki and Florence Gabriel from Cork.

This week street trend meets Caroline Kelleher and Patricia Looney, both from Cork.

This week street trend meets Charlie Greig from Co Donegal and Frances Nash from Co Cork.

It’s that place where we spend eight hours a day, five days a week: for some it’s an office, for others it’s a boardroom, studio space, catwalk or kitchen.

The owner of fashion chains including Oasis, Coast and Warehouse today said it was accelerating its growth plans after a successful half-year performance.

The “vast majority” of the 2,300 jobs at UK high street fashion retailer Principles are expected to go, sources said today.

ONCE the rival of London’s Oxford Street and New York’s Fifth Avenue in rental prices, Dublin’s Grafton street is now displaying the affects of the celtic recession — To Let and For Sale signs struggling with “massive discount” posters for shoppers’ attention.

IT looks like this year’s sales could be some of the best ever — as all the top stores are set to slash prices even lower than before Christmas.

Some of the UK’s best-known fashion brands could be returned to private ownership after details of a £400m (€568m) takeover move emerged today.

IRISH shoppers are being forced to pay more than their British counterparts for the same items of clothing in leading high-street stores.

UP TO 600,000 calls will be made from Irish landlines to Britain today, according to TalkTalk, the landline company from The Carphone Warehouse.

Around 400 jobs at clothing retailer Kookai were safeguarded tonight after the founders of the Oasis fashion empire bought a string of Kookai’s UK stores from administrators.

MOBILE phone retailer Carphone Warehouse plans to open nine new shops in Ireland.

Fashion chains Principles and Warehouse are on the brink of a sale that will land their owners a £130m (€187.8m) pay-day, it was reported today.

Former Marks & Spencer designer Yasmin Yusuf was today unveiled as the new chief executive of high street fashion chain East.

Speculation was mounting today that troubled retailer Marks & Spencer would offer investors less for their shares than the £4 (€5.89) promised by billionaire Philip Green in his takeover bid.

The designer brought in to add sparkle to women’s clothing at Marks & Spencer is to leave the retailer after three and a half years, it emerged today.

Marks & Spencer may have finally shrugged off its image for dowdy clothes after items from the latest collection made it into the pages of high fashion bible Vogue, it emerged today.