Celestine Cooney
There’s a vicious rumour circulating that Being Fabulous is not Enough to survive in the fashion industry. I’m not sure who started such spurious claims; I mean, the mere suggestion that all these years spent grooming and preening and parading and mwah-mwahing have been in vain…well it’s enough to send one into rehab daaaahhhhhlllling. Although perhaps there is a case in point…there is no e = MC2, no hard and fast rules in the fashion industry. The sartorial arena can be a cruel and arbitrary beast. Sometimes walking the walk and talking the talk will get you where you need to go, other-times it’s that cut-throat killer instinct and hopefully, sometimes even, it might be that pure spark of talent that ignites your fashion career. Oftentimes, it’s none of these three: it can merely be a right time, right place kind of gig.
To enlighten us mere fashion mortals on the actual machinations of the fashion industry, OFFSET have provided some of the heavyweight Irish success stories – the hugely influential Celestine Cooney, one-woman stylistic powerhouse, Aisling Farinella, designer Renate Henschke from the brilliant label Arms and Kate Nolan from the conscientious Re-Dress movement, to give a talk on what it takes to get ahead in fashion. All of this chaired By Rosemary McCabe from Fashmob. That’s a whole lorra talent and knowledge right there, so get thee signed up to Offset quick smart.
Aisling Farinella
Arms
Re-Dress at Electric Picnic
The fashion event takes place Friday lunchtime, but the weekend-long festival is literally fit to burst with creativity. In fact, one might go as far as saying that there is more creativity than you could shake a very large stick at: Illustrator Chris Judge giving advice, Jim Carroll in live conversation with DJ Shadow, the Irish Times dissecting the future of publishing, BLOW magazine, the Wooster Collective, Wired Magazine, State.ie, Will St Leger, Children’s Books Ireland, Alan Clarke….the list goes on and on and on and on…Really, not to be missed.
