WITH the recent focus on designers such as JW Anderson, Simone Rocha, Natalie B Coleman and Danielle Romeril, one could be forgiven for assuming that their success is somehow unprecedented in the history of Irish design.

London Fashion Week opened yesterday with up-and-coming designers set to rub shoulders over the next five days with established names such as Vivienne Westwood and Burberry — and Hunter Wellington boots.

EUROPEAN catwalks aren’t the only places to see new fashion this month. Brown Thomas Dublin’s Create initiative returns with a pop-up installation featuring 13 esteemed and emerging Irish designers of fashion, accessories, millinery, graphic print and textile design.

A group of talented, young Irish designers are set to take centre stage at one of the country’s biggest stores as part of fresh attempts to showcase the high-quality clothes being produced on these shores.

There’s a new fashion season coming and the September issues of the glossies are your required reading.

ALEXA, THE

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