Harvey hoping to bag the fashion spotters

HEY big spenders. Celebrity hang-out Harvey Nichols has its designs on your cash as its new store in Dublin tries to tap into the country’s multi-million love affair with shopping and high fashion.

Ireland’s latest luxury retailing store said its research showed that €500 million was being spent by the Irish every year on fashion in London, New York, Paris and Milan.

“That’s criminal. That shouldn’t happen,” Harvey Nichols group PR manager Richard Gray exclaimed, confident that the designer labels in Harvey Nicks would lure the well-heeled to use their flexible friends at home.