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Models on the catwalk during the Richard Quinn show, at the Dorchester Hotel Park Lane, during London Fashion Week. Alamy Stock Photo

Balletcore and ‘Tradwife’ aesthetic: Some of the best London Fashion Week looks by Irish designers

London Fashion Week, which is marking its 40th anniversary, wraps up tomorrow.

LONDON FASHION WEEK is celebrating its 40th anniversary and some Irish designers have been turning heads with their eye-catching looks with their Spring Summer 2025 collections.

Paul Costelloe, an Irish-American designer well-known here for his Dunnes Stores collections, turned back the clock with his 60s theme titled Le Ciel est Bleu (The Sky is Blue).

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Una Healy was among those at Costelloe’s show, and was even wearing a Costelloe dress.

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On Saturday, Standing Ground, the fashion brand founded by Michael Stewart, held its first independent show.

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Stewart is also fresh off winning this year’s LVMH Savoir-Faire Prize, which is awarded to young fashion designers.

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On Saturday evening, Richard Quinn, a London-born fashion designer whose parents are Irish, seemed to be inspired by the ‘Tradwife’ aesthetic that has become popular online.

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Quinn took inspiration from the 50s through his romantic evening wear and bridal gowns.

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On Sunday, Simone Rocha, daughter of John Roche, brought Balletcore to the catwalk, with her designs bringing a darker edge to the tutu.

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Also on Sunday, Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson made the mini-dress the centrepiece of his show that wowed the audience.

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Meanwhile, Sinéad O’Dwyer hosted a womenswear show this afternoon.

She previously said her designs “sit somewhere between fashion and art and celebrate the bits women have been conditioned to hide”.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 4:39 PM

    Fashion? Strange world!

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    Sep 16th 2024, 4:43 PM

    @Chutes: meaningless juvenile trolling on any article with comments oprn—— STRANGER still!!!!!

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    @Buster Lawless: with you to hold me to account the world is once again safe!

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    Sep 16th 2024, 4:55 PM

    I get that fashion is mostly frivolous fun for rich westerners. But the ‘tradwife aesthetic’ seems hard to detangle from the tradwife movement. Fair enough if people want to choose a certain type of life from themselves but the levels of indoctrination from the people living these lives is pretty creepy. There’s the influencer side of the, always Trump always conservative, women who present this supposedly charming life of subservience, popping kids out and baking cakes. There’s never any discussion of exactly what this entails and there’s often a lot of replacement theory justification underpinning it.

    The really sad part is listening to the parents pulp their daughters (and sons) with these really toxic ideas around women being submissive and their highly restrictive roles in life. You see some of the daughters going along with it for now. You’d imagine there will be massive kickback at a certain point when some of them get a bit more experience in the big bad world. I’m not sure why even the ironic fashion industry wants to celebrate the tradwife with all the sickly regressive American conservatism that comes attached.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 4:29 PM

    Anaesthetic more like lol

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    Sep 16th 2024, 5:06 PM

    Got to love some of these designs. Some great creativity.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 4:49 PM

    Balletcore is so hot right now!

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    Sep 16th 2024, 5:33 PM

    @honey badger: So is Donbas.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 6:02 PM

    @Brian O’Brendan: Seeing as you’re going off topic, so will I! I am genuinely delighted to see Bundee become a citizen of our country. A mere formality at this stage, but welcome nonetheless.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 6:09 PM

    @honey badger: more importantly, he’s been a citizen of MUNSTER for ages, lol

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    Sep 16th 2024, 6:22 PM

    @honey badger: Of course he’s welcome. I’ll allow it.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 4:57 PM

    Jesus that’s some statement about knickers.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 4:53 PM

    And hot pants mothballed now for the winter.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 6:48 PM

    @Freda Peeple: Kind of ironic then that you feel “the indigenous people need to stick together” – surely if you would want to avoid this mono culture that you speak of, then you would want to actually promote integration rather than support a partnership with loyalist paramilitaries

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    Sep 16th 2024, 6:59 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: jeez kevvy, ain’t no flies on you when it comes to any discussion/ debate on the article that may ‘upset’ your agenda….. Seriously, that WAS quick…..btw, you’re still a weirdo troll

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    @Kevin Kerr: Tell us where the bodies are

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    I prefer juggernauts without trailers.

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    Badger your a beaver.

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    @Phillip Smyth: What about my ” a beaver”?

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    Sep 16th 2024, 7:25 PM

    @honey badger: spot on badge

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    Sep 16th 2024, 7:00 PM

    They need to be about a billion times more sustainable, the way prices are who can blame them. To do it all properly a pair of jeans would end up being 10k

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