Why does everyone want to be Irish? Ask Ireland Fashion Week

As the world goes ‘green-pilled’, a new generation of Irish designers are coming home – and proving you don’t have to leave to make it in fashion

Why does everyone want to be Irish? Ask Ireland Fashion Week
Sinéad O'Dwyer Ireland Fashion Week

The theme for the second-ever Ireland Fashion Week last week was “coming home”. It’s one I was eager for – I joined the opening dinner at Slane Castle on Wednesday, October 7, ready to tell everyone I’d meet about my Irish grandparents. Only I quickly realised I was just one of many other tourists visiting the country, keen to trace some kind of Irish lineage. It seems everyone wants to be Irish right now. It’s even a running joke online,hellip;

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