Rosemary Mac Cabe

• events
• September 30, 2010, 10:48

This weekend, from Friday through to Sunday, the inaugural Dublin Festival of Fashion is underway in the capital, incorporating discounts, fashion shows and a pop-up shop in the former Habitat building on Suffolk Street. Karen Koster, launching the festival in …

• bargains competitions events fashion shows
• September 29, 2010, 15:45

So, the lovely folks at Bóthar have given me three pairs of tickets to the Bóthar Rugby Rocks Fashion extravaganza at the Aviva Stadium on October 14th. Look! A fashion show, a wine reception, a goody bag! And, as the …

• bargains competitions
• September 29, 2010, 12:27

Hurrah! The time has come to announce the winner of our €100 Penneys gift card and, I have to say (with no small degree of sadness), that deciding the winner was not as difficult as I hoped it would be. …

• shoes and boots
• September 29, 2010, 10:30

Last night, Fitzpatricks on Grafton St held a press evening to showcase their A/W 2010 collections, with shoes from Marc Jacobs, Sergio Rossi, Fendi and Ugg, and that’s just for starters (before you hit on Fitzpatricks’ own collection). Rachael Armstrong, …

• handbags online shopping
• September 27, 2010, 15:30

There are benefits, I won’t deny, to buying an expensive handbag, of the designer variety, and they are benefits that are trumpeted up and down the pages of fashion magazines, time in and time out: it’s an investment, for example. …

• celebrity
• September 27, 2010, 10:30

La Lohan arrives at court for a mandatory appearance before a judge who revoked her probation, and she looks good! I won’t lie, her face is still looking a little, eh, puffy, and she could do with some style of …

• bargains online shopping
• September 24, 2010, 10:30

As I type this, I’m watching Hollyoaks because, obviously, I have a very busy and fashionable life. And they have changed the opening credits! AND the opening music! I don’t like it much at all, I’ll not lie. It looks …

• fashion shows
• September 22, 2010, 17:23

There is something to be said, without a doubt, for those halcyon days of yore when S/S shows were revealed to us in, well, the spring/summer magazines, and we knew nothing of the coming seasons above and beyond what we …

• bargains
• September 22, 2010, 11:22

Well, it is, given the torrents of rain I had to wade my way through this morning en route to the office, but that doesn’t mean we have to entirely give up the ghost of light, summery colours – au …

• bargains events
• September 21, 2010, 15:00

Now here’s a good bit of notice for you; the weekend after next, Macleod Agencies is holding a sample sale in Dublin’s Central Hotel, Exchequer Street. On October 2nd from 10am to 5pm, and October 3rd from 11am to 5pm, …

• celebrity fashion shows
• September 21, 2010, 10:50

I know we’re all supposed to be obsessed with Cheryl Cole (I, for one, would love to see her wearing something by Ana Locking this year on X Factor, but that’s more a personal desire than anything else), but Nicola …

• handbags
• September 20, 2010, 12:23

This Friday sees the launch in all BT2 stores of the Peter Pilotto range of bags for Kipling - and, prepare for a shock, because the European duo behind the Peter Pilotto brand are definitively bringing the backpack back. The range …

• high street
• September 15, 2010, 11:40

So Savida, Dunnes’s grown-up, “fancy” (for want of a better word) range, has a new A/W collection, and there are pics available for viewing on its Facebook page and on their blog. A slight digression, for a moment: having a …

• celebrity
• September 14, 2010, 16:53

Oh hello there, minions! I’m Florence Welch. What? You thought I was Tilda Swinton? Pish-tosh! It’s just my haughty air and slightly off-beat hair and make-up combo! Look, I just didn’t have time, this morning to, you know, get anything …

• celebrity
• September 14, 2010, 14:04

Hello! I’m Selena Gomez. You may recognise me from the Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place! Or, more likely, you may recognise me from the fact that I dated a Jonas brother and regularly turn up on red carpets looking …

• celebrity
• September 14, 2010, 10:28

If you don’t read Go Fug Yourself, and you’re reading this, then you’re making one serious mistake in your online reading. The Fug girls dissect the latest celebrity style, in a pithy fashion I can only dream of. But what’s …

• advertising competitions music
• September 13, 2010, 12:30

Isn’t it funny how, when you say something is “an original”, the implication is that it’s old, a heritage item, something from the past; whereas, when you say something is “original”, you’re suggesting that it’s new, that it’s something that …

• street style what I wore
• September 13, 2010, 10:30

Doreen writes: I have just invested in a pair of thigh leather boots, (but i would say they are just above the knee) my boyfriend wants me to wear them with the shortist leather mini available. would they look well and …

• celebrity competitions
• September 10, 2010, 14:29

Behold! More celebrities than you could shake a stick at. The challenge for you, dear readers, is to come up with a wee poem, related to Chanel, and the photographs below, in which you use the word “Penneys” (although you may …

• fashion shows high street
• September 10, 2010, 11:27

Yesterday in the Royal Hibernian Academy on Ely Place, to a soundtrack of Jónsi, Lykke Li and LCD Soundsystem, Penneys, that stalwart of the Irish high street, held its first fashion show in nine years to showcase its A/W 2010 …

• advertising
• September 9, 2010, 16:05

There is a line between offensive advertising and risqué advertising – and, really, folks, it’s not that fine. We all did a great job of getting up on our high horses about Terry Richardson‘s “suggestive” and “shocking” Sisley advertisement, featuring …

• celebrity magazines
• September 8, 2010, 12:30

Carey Mulligan‘s star has been in the ascendant for some time – and sometimes I forget just what a great actress she is. Handily, I was reminded the other day by her turn in the 2005 version of Pride and …

• reviews
• September 8, 2010, 10:37

When I arrive at LA Make-up Academy on Thursday, sweating and clutching a frappuccino like its glorious mix of caffeine and cold might save my life, I am feeling less than enthusiastic about volunteering to try a debs package. Glamorous, …

• reviews
• September 7, 2010, 10:25

My own debs, a frightening eight years ago, was a tame affair compared to what I see in magazines and television nowadays. I bought a dress (strapless, but of course) in a boutique in Clane and applied Clinique self-tanner in the …

• bargains Irish designs
• September 3, 2010, 12:30

I love it when you feel as if you’ve discovered something new, even though it’s not new at all, especially to you. Kildare Village is (now) one such gem. I’d been a few times (20 minutes from Rathcoole on the …

• reviews
• September 3, 2010, 10:30

So on Wednesday, blessed as I was with a day off, and having spent the first half of it waiting around for the UPC man to arrive (which he did, promptly, and installed everything with no hassle and – hooray! …

• high street models photography
• September 2, 2010, 16:30

So, this editorial – and it is an editorial, rather than a campaign – for H&M‘s own magazine is just too good not to publish in full. Anja Rubik is just amazing in these shots, by Camilla Akrans . . …

• high street
• September 2, 2010, 12:30

Well Monsoon‘s new Fusion collection is instore now. Over at Fash Mob, we’re having a bit of a Monsoon moment following a very (almost too) productive visit to Kildare Village yesterday afternoon. The new collection is lovely – like a …

• celebrity designer collaborations music
• September 2, 2010, 10:30

I’d love to be organised to do a weekly fashion news digest, but sadly, my time is taken up with finding discounts and such to present you (my humble readers) with. Now, however, I have some news! It may not …

• high street
• September 1, 2010, 16:30

I’ve made no secret of the fact that Cos is one of my favourite retailers at the moment. It has everything one could want from a high-street store: wearable clothing, trend-led colours and fabrics, and beautiful boxy shapes that are …

• high street
• September 1, 2010, 12:30

It was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? There are plenty of ways to get your fashion fix on your smartphone, from Style.com‘s app (runway photos for every show you could imagine) to Diane von Furstenberg‘s app (I’ll have …

• photography
• September 1, 2010, 10:30

Sarah Connolly is a Galway-based photographer, specialising (at the moment anyway) in portrait and wedding photography. (My favourite wedding shots are always the kind of atmospheric ones, that show what was going on in the calm, while the storm waged …