As Haute Couture Week begins in Paris tomorrow, Carolyn Moore meets the Irish designers bringing the craft of couture back to Ireland.

FASHION designer Helen Cody, who has succeeded in replacing haute couture garments stolen from her studio over a month ago, was not going to let it rain on her fashion parade in Dublin.

SKIRT lengths are coming down next year — a fashion trend that has always indicated tougher times ahead.

ONE of Ireland’s top fashion designers is determined to work her fingers to the bone replicating haute couture garments worth thousands of euro stolen from her studio.

ANDREA ROCHE swept to victory last night as the Most Stylish Woman at the Peter Mark VIP Style awards.

AN acclaimed Irish fashion designer has produced eight exquisite dresses inspired from a series of masterpieces that will be included in a sale of art works worth around €3 million in Dublin next week.

The competition was red-hot at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards as stars of the stage and screen strutted their finery on the carpet.

IT may not have been as sunny as Cannes, but everyone was beaming at the Irish premiere of Ken Loach’s award-winning The Wind That Shakes The Barley last night in Cork, not least its homegrown star, actor Cillian Murphy.

CORK Summer Show revived memories of its glory days last weekend, reverting to a two-day event, and bringing back cattle and sheep classes after an absence of a couple of years.

Boots Ireland is to hold a designer bag auction to raise funds for Action Breast Cancer (ABC), a project of the Irish Cancer Society, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.