Simone Rocha

What’s new in design: A fresh take on lace and snazzy drinks cabinets

Sculptural lighting illuminates Collins Barracks while a Celtic spa in Naas offers refuge

What Ireland’s specialist third-level institutions have to offer

Life on campus: Institutions around the country offer a diverse range of course options for prospective students

What’s on this season’s wedding wish list

Harry and Meghan are saying no to gifts, but most couples want kitchen kit or cash

Reduced! Your guide to the post-Christmas sales

Bargain hunters with an eye on the sales will find lots to lust over in this selection

Other institutions: All you need to know about open days

Institutions around the country offer a diverse range of course options for prospective students

Model Thalia Heffernan: ‘Rugs and I don’t get on. I tend to fall over them’

The 22-year-old, one of Ireland’s top models, on calming colours and her love of John Rocha

Check-in: Luxurious Valentine’s Day packages

Photography workshop in Lapland, ‘insider’ travel guides and Disneyland Paris turns 25

Pieces of me: Ruth Monaghan, florist

‘I dislike poinsettias and lilies – as all florists do – and the smell of lilies’

Simone Rocha wins designer of the year at British fashion awards

Award confirms rise of 30-year-old London-based Irish designer

Fashion forward: Three Irish designers on surviving a tough industry

On being introduced to Anna Wintour as ‘here’s another one of our Irish talents’

Afternoon tea is all the fashion

Prêt-à-Portea, with cakes and pastries by chef Mourad Khiat and inspired by top designers, is coming to Dublin

‘Making Kim Kardashian's dress consumed every hour’

Irish pattern-maker Ina Marie Igoe gets a thrill from working with designers like Marc Jacobs in New York

Greening the runway: Ireland’s fashion loss is the UK’s gain

Some of the biggest stars at London Fashion Week this season were Irish designers

Bay Garnett: from 1990s thrifter to cutting edge stylist

Having cut her teeth on Cheap Date, a much-loved but short-lived DIY fashion magazine of the 1990s, Garnett now styles the likes of Kate Moss for British Vogue

Ireland: the next generation

Which Irish people will influence Ireland – and the world – in the coming years? These 22 twentysomethings are likely contenders

Fashion: NCAD hit the graduate catwalk

The themes are rich and varied as NCAD students display materials and ideas