It’s always a bit of a Downton Abbey moment when we see the stars of Mad Men on the red carpet in 21st-century clothes.

MATERNITY wear and fashion have never been mutually exclusive.

INSPIRATION

This week we meet Rachel O’Riordan from Dublin and Jenny Clear from Limerick.

Only Alexa Chung could pull this look off. Hosting the Scottish fashion awards, she wore a white, buttoned-up shirt under a quirky, short, sequinned Christopher Kane shift. Somehow, it works.

I WANT Shelly Corkery to be a bitch: even just a bitch off the record.

When rumours reached Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of luxury goods group LVMH, that an Irish state-run agency could seize control of developer David Daly’s three shops on London’s Bond St, he quicklyapproached him about a deal.

BROWN Thomas will soon complete a €4 million revamp at its Cork store, as it goes head-to-head in a battle for consumers with British retail giant, Debenhams.