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The much anticipated Galway Races @galwayraces_official, did not disappoint after its absence during Covid.
As a bevy of beauties descended on Ballybrit for a week of racing, sunshine & the most fun day of them all 'Ladies Day'. The fashion stakes were high and this year the winners were outstanding.
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We were delighted to be involved last Sunday 14 October 2018 the Pink Luncheon hosted for the fifth year in Kilronan Castle Co. Roscommon, Ireland, with proceeds in aid of The Irish Cancer Society’s breast cancer campaign.
Thanks to all the team who helped out with the show. Catriona showcased her new 2019 evening gown collection and gave a sneak peek of her AW 2019 blouses.
]]>Catriona was awarded the 2018 Irish Fashion Designer of the year award at the International Rose of Tralee Festival in County Kerry.
Article by Fiona Heavey Leitrim Observer.
]]>Read more here: https://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/lifestyle/333958/catriona-hanly-is-designer-of-the-year.html
]]>With an extensive background in jewellery and interior design, London based Irish designer Catriona Hanly launched her namesake brand four years ago. Since then her fashion collections have made waves both in Ireland, the UK as well as the United States and her stand-out creative designs have now become a staple in the wardrobes of celebrities worldwide.
Luxury By London speaks to Catriona Hanly about how her journey began and what we can expect to see from the fashion house in years to come.
Read full article here
]]>To simply title Catriona Hanly a fashion designer would not do her incredibly opulent, gorgeously decadent designs crafted from luxurious fabrics and inspired by the glamour of eras gone by justice.
Catriona Hanly is a couture queen. Read Erica Bracken's story in http://indulgeme.ie published in May 2018
]]>To simply title Catriona Hanly a fashion designer would not do her incredibly opulent, gorgeously decadent designs crafted from luxurious fabrics and inspired by the glamour of eras gone by justice.
Catriona Hanly is a couture queen.
Since the London-based Irish designer launched her first collection, after studying her craft at Central St Martin’s in London and The Barbara Bourke College of Fashion in Dublin, she has taken the fashion world by storm.
Read the full story here http://indulgeme.ie/women-we-love-catriona-hanly/
]]>Catriona Hanly has always been the queen of bling and good-times fashion. Back in the height of the Celtic Tiger, she was designing jewellery that was as high-octane as we were all feeling life was, in that moment.
A lot has happened for Catriona Hanly between then and now. For a time, she left the fashion business, went into interiors and moved to the UK.
Constance Harris - Sunday Indepenedent Life Magazine
https://www.independent.ie/style/fashion/fashion-news/irish-designer-catriona-hanly-is-back-with-readytowear-collection-34207639.html
Catriona Hanly has always been the queen of bling and good-times fashion. Back in the height of the Celtic Tiger, she was designing jewellery that was as high-octane as we were all feeling life was, in that moment.
A lot has happened for Catriona Hanly between then and now. For a time, she left the fashion business, went into interiors and moved to the UK.
She relaunched her jewellery range a while ago, but this year saw the realisation of her long-held dream - to design ready-to-wear. On our pages today is her winter 2015 occasion-wear collection; it's her second outing as a fashion designer, and the collection that she feels is most herself.
"I have been doing a lot of things in the last few years," Catriona tells me. "The market became saturated, so I gave jewellery up and I went into interiors for a while. Then things in that area went quiet. So, it was a natural progression that I started designing clothes."
Catriona studied fashion design in the Barbara Bourke College of Fashion (where Don O'Neill also began). Her contemporaries were Helen Steele, our own Triona McCarthy and former Sunday Independent social columnist Gavin Lambe-Murphy. Afterwards, she went to New York and became a junior buyer at Bergdorf Goodman, working in jewellery.
"I guess the ready-to-wear came about because many events happened around the same time. It was a progression," Catriona elaborates. "The interiors had declined, and design had been on my mind for a long time. I was living in Paris and I had been studying what was going on in fashion and in vintage. I had a lot of experience in business and working with fabrics, so it was a natural experience. I focused on doing it, and once I knew what I was doing, the designs flowed."
The Catriona Hanly collection is a party and occasion-wear collection. It consists mainly of separates that, when worn together, are mega dressy, but when separated and worn individually, say with jeans and high heels, create a cool, effortless kind of chic. Her fabrics range from silk-organza, lace and tulle, to damask, sequins and velvet.
"The collection is about my life story," Catriona explains. "There are three stories in one collection. Studio 54 - the sequin and velvet fabrics -is about when I lived in New York, and I had the best time ever. The Parisian collection is based on the year in Paris; it's all the silk-organza and lace pieces. It's sophisticated and classic. Then, there is the Marie Antoinette collection, which is all heavy, opulent fabrics, which I used to work with when I did interiors."
On sale exclusively in the Design Centre, and online, from Catriona's website, catrionahanly.com, the collection is, according to Catriona, "for women who are confident in themselves and not afraid of high fashion."
Photography by Alexandria Hall
Fashion edited by Constance Harris
Sunday Indo Life Magazine