Róisín Pierce’s ethereal and romantic collection brings angel-inspired looks to Paris

Lace has a rich place in Irish history, its craft foundations going back to the 18th century. It was made for the rich by the poor and saved many families from starvation and destitution in the post-Famine period. As a fabric, crochet lace does wonders for the skin. Its delicacy and intricacy make it the most feminine of all fabrics. Lace conceals and reveals but it can also carry deeper and darker stories.

She followed it up with Beware Beware, a material response to Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus, the poet’s searing examination of death and rebirth, with a collection embellished with deadstock bows, bridal veils, ruffles and flowers. Pierce called it “a hyper feminine expression of women’s liberation”.

Róisín Pierce's O Lovely One, Girl that Fell from a Star at Paris Fashion Week. Photograph: Ik Aldama Róisín Pierce's O Lovely One, Girl that Fell from a Star at Paris Fashion Week. Photograph: Ik Aldama The poem that inspired the collection was written by Pierce with Michelle Freya, and draws inspiration from Dora Sigerson Shorter’s elegy The Star, a call for peace written in memory of Patrick Pearse. “The poem and collection deal with the sorrow of conflict which darkens the mercurial place we have inherited,” Pierce said in show notes.

Róisín Pierce's O Lovely One, Girl that Fell from a Star at Paris Fashion Week. Photograph: Ik Aldama

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