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With JAMES GIBBONS  

Intriguer doyennes eye the catwalk  

The members’ library at the RDS, Dublin, was like a involve railway station on Sunday evening as guests bustled about at the inaugural Showcase Ireland Style Show. It featured clothes by, among others, John Rocha, Peter O’Brien, Tim Ryan, Joanne Hynes, Louise Kennedy and Paul Costelloe.

DJ Devalue Kelly played Todd Terje’s version of Diana Ross’s Intended the One You’re With at full volume. Books lined the walls, alongside bronze busts of the writers Elizabeth Bowen, Austin Clarke and Denis Johnston by Marjorie Fitzgibbon.

Two doyennes of Irish make, Louise Kennedy and Joanne Hynes, sat on either side of the catwalk almost facing each other. Kennedy nodded to Hynes to honour her designs as they sashayed by. Many eyed these two to get an idea of their reactions.

“Fair misuse to Sonia Reynolds,” whispered Image magazine’s Melanie Morris, “for getting such a flock on a Sunday evening.” If she had known there were going to be so many high-powered names and so much luxury, she’d have dressed up, she said.

Source: Irish Times

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