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Fashion

Dolly Parton, 1946–2026: The Woman Who Knew Exactly What She Was Doing

She refused Elvis, kept her copyrights, built an industry in the county she was born in, and let the world underestimate her for sixty years. Dolly Parton has died at 80 — and the free books are still going out in Tallaght and Cork this month.

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The Goss

The Top 18 Irish Creators, Ranked on What Can Actually Be Proved

We read every follower count off the profile ourselves, then tried to verify what these people have actually built. Two thirds of it did not survive. The result is a ranking in which the biggest account finishes fourth.

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Fashion

The Tie Does Nothing. That Is the Whole Point.

It began as a rag round a soldier's neck and became the most reliably gendered object in the wardrobe. Four centuries later the tie has lost the battlefield, the office, the knot - and, on TikTok, the neck. What is left is the only part that never had a use.

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Dawn, Davinia and Cleo Knight at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival
Race Fashion

Keeping Up with the Knights

A rented dress won €10,000 at Galway. A charity-shop hat won a weekend at Ashford Castle. A pair of curtains won a sustainability title at the Curragh. Three sisters from Portarlington on how they actually do it - and why the one who left school with fewer than 100 points has the most to say.

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Beauty

Collagen: The Claim That's Illegal to Make

The EU assessed collagen's skin claim in 2013, refused it, and wrote the refusal into law in 2014. So why is everyone still making it - and what does the evidence actually show?

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Catwalk

Ireland Fashion Week 2026: Year Two, and the First Without Paul Costelloe

Seventy-five designer slots, eight shows and up to 80% of production costs covered. Ireland Fashion Week's second edition runs 7–12 October — with no venue, line-up or ticket yet announced.

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Catwalk

Dublin Independent Fashion Week Grows Up

Four years from a volunteer designer collective to a registered non-profit with a board — and a campaign to have fashion recognised as a fundable art form. 10–16 September.

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Catwalk

Paris Fashion Week SS27: Three Debuts and a House in Limbo

Drew Henry at Courrèges, Kai Nesselrath at Carven, and Alaïa showing without a creative director. 101 labels, 28 September to 6 October.

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The Series

Inside the Irish Influencer Scene

Five parts on who Ireland is actually listening to — and who is paying for it.

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What Creators Get Paid

Locked out of TikTok’s payout scheme, taxed on the gift bag, and a third of deals not paid in money at all.

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The Agencies, and Their Cut

Five Irish agencies, one published fee model between them, and the question nobody in Dublin enjoys.

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Does Any of It Work?

The industry’s favourite statistic traces back to nowhere, and not one published Irish campaign result reports a sale.

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At the Races

Race Fashion

Tweed, tall hats and Bright Tomato — best dressed from Killarney, Galway, Ascot and Cheltenham.

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Race Fashion

Galway Races 2026: Two Winners, and a Shift in Irish Race Style

€13,000 in prizes, 124,745 racegoers and a week at Ballybrit that traded last year's make-do-and-mend charm for something altogether more bespoke.

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Race Fashion

Two Days at the Curragh

The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby weekend ran two style competitions. A pink Irish linen suit made in Naples, worn with shoes from Marks & Spencer, won Saturday's open award - and its winner was the only man among ten finalists.

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Race Fashion

Katie Young: 2026 Ashford Castle Style Icon at The Curragh

When the first style crown of the Irish flat season was handed out at The Curragh, it went to the quietest look on the lawn — and that was precisely the point.

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Fashion

The Fashion Desk

Irish designers, the seasons that actually change, and the people who own luxury.

Catwalk

Paris Fashion Week SS27: Three Debuts and a House in Limbo

Drew Henry at Courrèges, Kai Nesselrath at Carven, and Alaïa showing without a creative director. 101 labels, 28 September to 6 October.

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Catwalk

Milan Fashion Week SS27: The First September Without Him

Giorgio Armani's show falls days after the first anniversary of his death, Moschino gets new designers, and Versace is conspicuously absent. 22–28 September.

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Fashion

Who Owns Luxury Now

LVMH, Kering, Prada and a Saudi sovereign wealth fund: a plain reading of who actually owns the clothes in 2026, and which of the year's designer appointments still stand.

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Catwalk

London Fashion Week SS27: McQueen Comes Home

Seán McGirr brings McQueen back to London after twenty-five years in Paris, Christopher Kane debuts at Mulberry, and M&S walks a runway for the first time. 17–21 September.

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Fashion

Irish Millinery Beyond the Racecourse

Ireland's milliners have published prices, imported blocks and no degree course - a real craft trade the country photographs once a year, on a Thursday in July.

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Catwalk

Ten Modelling Agencies Shaping European Fashion

From a Chelsea office that found Kate Moss to a Copenhagen house built on an ethics charter — the agencies that decide who walks, and the fight over who owns a face.

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Softly tailored neutral knitwear and outerwear, the quiet luxury look of 2026
Social

Ireland Doesn’t Trust Its Influencers. It Buys From Them Anyway.

One in ten of us believes a word they say. Two thirds of their followers have bought something on their say-so. Part one of a five-part look at who Ireland is actually listening to — and who is paying for it.

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Lifestyle & Home

The Glow-Up Was Never About Your Face

Vogue says the post-breakup glow is real and rooted in biology. Half of that is right. The cortisol story falls apart on inspection - and what actually changes is far more interesting.

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Race Fashion

Race Style & Social: The Account Documenting Irish Race Fashion

2,363 posts across fifteen racecourses. Inside the vertical-video operation that has quietly built the fullest record of what Ireland actually wears to the races.

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The Goss

Influencer or UGC Creator? The Reclassification Changing Everything

The fastest-growing job in Irish social media is the one where nobody knows your name - and an Irish influencer agency has already built a business selling content without influencers attached. Part five of our series.

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Lifestyle & Home

byReidin: The Bow, The Bags and The Woman Behind Them

Structured mini bags with a signature bow, from €15 to €265, made by a woman who spent 28 years flying for Virgin Atlantic — and still does.

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Lifestyle & Home

Maya Grisham: The Pint, The Packet and The Craft Behind Them

A crystal pint with a pearl head, a €750 block of Kerrygold and a €3,000 packet of Tayto. Inside Kimberly Tino's range — and the hand-set craft that makes the joke land.

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Race Fashion

Killarney's Best Dressed Day 2026: Two Winners Under the Reeks

Sylvia Novak took the Canella Lane title in Rita Daly millinery and recycled-plastic jewellery. Gary Moynihan took the men's in burgundy and navy. Judged, on the most scenic track in Ireland, by two women who came to it from very different directions.

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Skin, Hair & Self-Care

Beauty

The Irish clinics, the homegrown skincare and the routines worth keeping.

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Beauty

The Botox Edit: An Honest Look at Ireland's Favourite Tweakment

Ireland makes most of the world's Botox — and is using more of it than ever. The why, the upside, the risks, the real prices, and how to find safe hands.

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Beauty

Where Ireland Goes to Glow: The Skin Clinics on Our Radar

The treatments and clinics earning a loyal following, from Dublin facialists to the medspas worth the drive.

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Beauty

The Glow Edit: Awards-Season Skin That Photographs Beautifully

How to build luminous, camera-ready skin for the big night — the prep, the product and the tricks that survive a flash.

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Where to Go Next

Travel

Ireland, Europe and the long way round — hotels, cities and the places worth the journey.

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Travel

When the Hotel Is the Holiday: The Rise of the Destination Stay

The industry says the hotel is now the destination. The data says something more interesting — and Irish castle rates are running 29% above Scotland's.

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Travel

The Return of the Sleeper Train: Europe by Night

Fall asleep in one city and wake in another. The night train is genuinely back — but ten routes vanished from the 2026 timetable, and the story is more complicated than the romance suggests.

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Travel

The Coolcation: Why 2026 Is Heading for the Mountains, Not the Med

As Mediterranean summers turn punishing, the money is moving north and up. The evidence for the coolcation, and the booking rules that now govern the Dolomites.

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