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Niamh Porter makes her mark in new fashion doc 3 years ago

Niamh Porter makes her mark in new fashion doc

Donegal designer Niamh Porter is set to feature in a new sustainable design documentary on RTÉ2 later this month.

Niamh, from Raphoe, is an LYIT Fashion graduate who works under the name …
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Exciting collaboration makes waves at Fanad Lighthouse 4 years ago

Exciting collaboration makes waves at Fanad Lighthouse

Fanad Lighthouse has teamed up with Donegal designer Fiona Herbst to create an original and exclusive collection of jewellery featuring the iconic landmark. 

The collection uses colour and form to …
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Donegal ‘needs to stand proud’ as local design leads the way in WOOL Showcase 4 years ago

Donegal ‘needs to stand proud’ as local design leads the way in WOOL Showcase

An upcoming art showcase is set to be a very good yarn for Donegal as the county’s rich knitting heritage comes to the fore.

Donegal designers make up almost half …
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Creative sisters making face masks fashionable 4 years ago

Creative sisters making face masks fashionable

Three sisters from Letterkenny are covering a new section of the fashion world with their unique face masks.

Anna, Lisa and Molly Kennedy are the designers behind ‘Mask Your Face’ …
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Made in Donegal: The fashion students contributing to the frontline 5 years ago

Made in Donegal: The fashion students contributing to the frontline

By  •  News

A team of LYIT Fashion students, teachers and helpers have begun using their skills to run up scrubs for staff in the Covid-19 fight at Letterkenny University Hospital.

Over 600 …
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Donegal designers to unveil their latest collections at major expo 5 years ago

Donegal designers to unveil their latest collections at major expo

Now in its 44th year, Showcase is one of Ireland’s largest international trade fairs.

A major event for Ireland’s design and craft sector, the exhibition will see over 2,760 retail businesses …
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Valerie Taylor weaves her way into the world of fashion 6 years ago

Valerie Taylor weaves her way into the world of fashion

Valerie Taylor was in a textile room in Coventry University when she first laid eyes on a loom. It was covered in dust, unused for a long time, but she …
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Interiors: The secret to finding your perfect shades of grey 6 years ago

Interiors: The secret to finding your perfect shades of grey

By  •  Interiors

I know that grey colours are notoriously tricky to get right, but when you do have the right grey in the right space, you achieve a colour palette that is …
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Interiors: How plan and design the perfect room 6 years ago

Interiors: How plan and design the perfect room

By  •  Interiors

You know the symptoms!

You have a room that you really want to sort out, but you haven’t a clue where to start, what order to do everything in, and …
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Events: A perfect storm at the LYIT design show 6 years ago

Events: A perfect storm at the LYIT design show

By  •  Events, Style

Students from the LYIT Department of Design & Creative Media courses took the opportunity to display work from the 2017/2018 academic year at a dynamic show in the Regional Cultural Centre …
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Events: A glimpse into the future of Donegal fashion 7 years ago

Events: A glimpse into the future of Donegal fashion

Fashion students at LYIT held an eclectic and inspirational showcase today as part of the DICE 2018 event.

This day is a celebration of the Design, Innovation, Creativity, Enterprise programmes …
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How one Donegal man found his perfect fit in costuming 7 years ago

How one Donegal man found his perfect fit in costuming

Sometimes we don’t notice what actors are wearing in TV, film and theatre, while other times it’s their clothing that transports the audience to a place and time outside our …
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Did you know our newest Snapchat filter is the work of a Donegal woman? 7 years ago

Did you know our newest Snapchat filter is the work of a Donegal woman?

By  •  News

We can now add a funky splash of Donegal colours to every photo we take with the latest Irish geofilter on the Snapchat app.

Every county in Ireland now has their …
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Events: When Trash became Treasure 7 years ago

Events: When Trash became Treasure

The students creations were highlighted in true exuberant fashion last night at the annual Trash ‘N’ Fashion Grand Final in the Mount Errigal Hotel.

Materials including wooden pegs, origami papers, …
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Ingenious design by Donegal student takes Junk Kouture 2017 title 8 years ago

Ingenious design by Donegal student takes Junk Kouture 2017 title

There were tears of joy in the 3Arena last night as ‘Engimatic’ emerged as the victor of Bank of Ireland Junk Kouture 2017 at the seventh annual final.

‘Engimatic’ from Scoil Mhuire …
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First Look: Innovative workwear by Donegal’s next top designers 8 years ago

First Look: Innovative workwear by Donegal’s next top designers

Irish Fashion Innovation Awards on Thursday March 30th is set to be a defining day in the careers of three young designers from Donegal.

Second Year LyIT Fashion Students Niamh …
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LYIT designers fly the fashion flag for Donegal 8 years ago

LYIT designers fly the fashion flag for Donegal

Letterkenny IT Fashion students Niamh Porter (Raphoe), Eimear Bradley (Cloghan) and Lauren Doyle (Buncrana) will discover their fate at the Irish Fashion Innovation Awards: Student Designer of the Year 2017 …
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