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The Fabric of Us: Clothing, Identity and Meaning
The Embassy of Ireland to Denmark invites you to this special event with Desert Island Dress.
This exclusive edition of Desert Island Dress includes a panel discussion with Irish creatives:
Caoimhe Dowling, Independent (Fashion) Designer
Tom Sheppard, Artchitect, Designer and Project Manager at 3DaysOfDesign
Fergus Murphy, Head of Strategy at goodbuzz agency
There will also be a fireside chat with Copenhagen Fashion Week COO Isabella Davey which will give space for a deeper discussion on clothing, sustianable fashion, memories and heritage. Isabella will also discuss pieces that tie Denmark to Ireland and how fashion can signal something far greater than the garments themselves.
Date: Thursday April 3 2025
Time: 16.00 - 18.00
Location: Embassy of Ireland, Denmark (Østbanegade 21
2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark)
IDI AWARDS 2024
The IDI 2024 Award winners exemplify the best of Irish design.
The awards provide designers with a platform to showcase their talents, benchmark against their peers and provide inspiration for all. The breadth of projects truly shows the impact of Irish design on business, culture and creativity.
JUDGES' THOUGHTS
"A really smart and nuanced approach to open educational resources and how to engage younger audiences and learners in shifting their thinking about the value and future of fashion. It’s a great demonstration of the power of oral history and individual stories to shape collective imagination and shared futures.
This is an intelligent and carefully designed project which is conceptually robust and sensitively curated. The central idea is deceptively simple, but to pull this off takes a lot of work and planning as well as intellectual coherence and integrity.
This project has the potential to make a significant impact. Its approach will not only influence young students but also educators and designers currently working in the field.
This is a thoughtful and compelling addition to the design education and research landscape, demonstrating how open educational resources can be entertaining and impactful, as well as meaningful beyond the classroom."
IRISH EXAMINER REVIEW
Mon, 07 Apr, 2025
Eoghan O’Sullivan
Podcast Corner: Desert Island Dress offers intimate chat on favourite garments
Named after and obviously influenced by the long-running BBC series Desert Island Discs, podcast Desert Island Dress is hosted by Katriona Flynn, a lecturer in fashion and luxury goods at TU Dublin, and Dee Duffy, a lecturer of fashion and retail studies at the same university.
They ask guests to choose four items of dress, clothes that have shaped their lives “that they could not bear to leave behind on the mainland”....
Running since May 2024, Flynn and Duffy have amassed 20 interviews to date with various names in the fashion world and people in the arts generally. As well as those main episodes, the pair do post-analysis episodes reflecting on the themes that cropped up.
What’s striking about the show is just how revealing it is, as if the guests are literally opening up their wardrobe for you to browse their secrets...
Desert Island Dress may not be the most original, but it’s a surprisingly intimate show - and well, if the shoe fits…
Irish Independent
Why we wear what we do: Desert Island Dress podcast gets guests talking about the meaning behind their favourite garments.Hosts Katriona Flynn and Dee Duffy know how important clothes are to us and why we hold treasured memories of our favourite items
Orla Dempsey
Sun 9 Jun 2024 at 02:30
"When I moved to London, a friend introduced me to Desert Island Discs,” Katriona Flynn says, referring to the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 programme in which guests are asked which musical tracks they’d take with them if they were stranded on an island.
“Often, when people would talk about their favourite songs they’d link in garments they were wearing at the time. Garments seem to be a big part of that memory register.”
It sparked the idea of doing a similar programme based solely around clothing — a project which stuck with Flynn after she moved back to Ireland and became a lecturer in fashion and luxury goods at TU Dublin.
“I had been thinking of the ‘Desert Island Dress’ project for quite some time. At the end of 2022, my mam passed away and I read the book Faith, Hope And Carnage. It’s an interview series between Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan the music journalist. Grief, hope and creativity is a big part of the book. After reading that I thought, ‘It’s time’.”
She teamed up with a colleague, the consumption studies lecturer Dr Dee Duffy to bring it to life.
“We’ve worked together for the last few years and have a lot of discussions surrounding fashion and why we wear what we do,” Dr Duffy says. “Then one day I went into the office and Katriona was talking about this project. I had done podcasting before and thought it would be great as a conversation piece .....................
The Morning Show with Kathryn Thomas
Wed, 07 May, 2025
Kathryn Thomas
The ultimate way to brighten your day, listeners to The Morning Show with Kathryn Thomas can look forward to a bright and energetic morning full of fun, surprises and plenty of laughs along the way. Kathryn Thomas will keep listeners up to date with all the latest news, covering stories that matter to Dubliners, along with weather and travel. And all of this is paired with feel good music that is guaranteed to brighten your morning, no matter what the weather! Fun features will include ‘Brekkie’s Got Talent’, where children across Dublin can share their amazing talents on air and engaging games where listeners can win big prizes weekly.
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