Lauren Heskin

Founded by Mary McBride in 1986, in Killarney is now run by her daughters, Aoife McBride and Doranne Hickey. Championing Irish design and sustainability with a focus on quality craftsmanship and individuality, the duo select some of their favourite pieces from the shop floor. Green with Envy If you’ve ever visited Macbees, you’ll know we love colour so our go-to brand is Essentiel Antwerp. This brand embodies what we at Macbees are all about – refreshing, offbeat, luxury fashion.

Gráinne Walsh spent years working as a designer and fashion consultant in New York and Canada before returning to Dublin. A former lecturer, she founded Grey Area studio in 2018. Gráinne hand-painted a canvas backdrop and plinths for a Tipperary handbag shoot with photographer Alex Hutchinson. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB? I worked with a graphic designer creating colour separations by hand for screen prints on t-shirts in a Capel Street basement.

Designer Emily O’Shea on finding inspiration in the joyful and the ordinary. When designer Emily O’Shea announced that she wasn’t “nostalgic”, her friend was quick to disagree. “‘But your work is based on things you see, memories, things that make you think. How is that not nostalgic?’” There are certainly moments of reflection that run through the Cork woman’s designs. Emily’s NCAD graduate collection was inspired by photos she took on her walk home, after an accident left her dreading the commute.