Dundalk student fashion designer Eamonn McGill will be among the top nine designers for the upcoming DIT Fashion Show in Vicar Street on April 19.
Eamonn’s design is titled “Capitol Opulence”. He studies at Grafton Academy and it was modelled by DIT student Eva Walsh from Athy Kildare who studies Human Resource Management.
Eamonn’s inspiration comes from “the hunger games Capitol City in a futuristic fantasy world, using the light, opulent grand balls, futuristic lines of the buildings, where an outfit must have dual purposes with an extravagant touch.”
These nine dramatic student designs, all finalists at the student design competition at the DIT Fashion Show in Vicar Street on 19th April, were unveiled at the Q Park car park, Stephen’s Green today.
Tickets for the DIT Fashion Show are now available for €20 from eventbrite.ie, with net proceeds going to the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation who have supported 2,000 children nationwide with home nursing care, including 48 children in Louth.
The DIT Fashion Show, now in its 13th year, is one of the top events in Ireland’s fashion calendar attracting an audience of 1,000 people to Vicar Street.
The judging panel for the DIT student design competition, the prize money for which is €2,000, is made up of Brendan Courtney, TV personality, designer and co-founder of Lennon Courtney and Founder of Frock Advisor; Umit Kutluk, the 2011 winner of this DIT design competition and now a well known and influential designer in the Irish fashion industry; Maria Fusco, well respected stylist, fashion designer and fashion show producer; Bairbre Power, fashion editor of the Irish Independent and Weekend Magazine.
The DIT Fashion Society, which organizes this annual show, is one of 80 societies in DIT which have over 6,000 student members.
The event Shadowhunters fans have been waiting for dreading is finally here — but will Alec really swap vows with Lydia on Tuesday’s episode (Freeform, 9/8c), or will Magnus’ presence be enough to cut the ceremony short?
VIDEOSExclusive Shadowhunters Clip: Can Magnus Convince Alec to Call Off His Wedding?
“I think that everyone is speculating too much,” Matthew Daddario tells TVLine of Magnus and Alec’s big will-they-won’t-they episode, which is literally titled “Malec.” Daddario adds, “I think [fans] should be very careful with their hopes and dreams because, very quickly, everything you love and want can shatter. I would not get too many hopes up, but I guarantee that things will be… emotional.”
Below, Daddario previews his character’s dramatic nuptials, discusses the process of bringing “Malec” to life and explains why screaming is actually a great workout.
TVLINE | I’m not crazy, I know you’re acting, but did this kind of feel like a real wedding?
It’s funny that you say that, because there’s a moment when you’re up there saying your “I do”s, and the guy’s asking for X, Y and Z — and you’re thinking to yourself, “Man, this is a little real.” That’s a stressful moment in someone’s life, getting married. Even in mimic, there’s a psychological effect.
TVLINE | Whoa, there’d better not be any “I do”s.
[Laughs] I don’t really remember what happens. It was a long time ago.
TVLINE | I feel like Magnus and Alec have become the fan-favorite ‘ship, even more so than Clary and Jace. What’s been most important for you in your portrayal of this couple?
Whenever you have something that matters to a large number of people, especially when it’s on a very personal level, you have to make sure your interpretation of it matches at least certain parts of theirs. It’s not about you. You have to do something to honor these characters and their relationship. We were very focused on keeping things honest and making it seem real. The struggle is real, their feelings are real. We worked with the writers constantly to make sure everything went smoothly.
TVLINE | I also appreciate that the show can explore their relationship more fully than the books.
Yeah, Alec isn’t really a main character — well, he is, but you don’t get his point of view all that often in the first few books — so the show taking those little moments and turning them into meaningful character development is very much appreciated. I find [those scenes] to be very enjoyable. It gives you a lot of room to play, which is nice. All actors enjoy playing.
TVLINE | At this point, do you think Alec is lying to himself about his feelings for Malec? Or does he genuinely not know what he’s feeling?
That’s an interesting question. What’s the difference, really, between lying to yourself and being confused? I think confusion would require that he feels some sort of sexual attraction to women as well. That hasn’t been made clear; he hasn’t shown any emotional attachment to anyone other than male characters. So I think he’s lying to himself and pushing people away — that’s certainly how I played it. If anyone else tries to force him to experience those emotions, he pushes back very hard.
TVLINE | For what it’s worth, I’m never sure what’s going on in Alec’s head.
[Laughs] I sort of wondered as I was doing it, “Is this too much? It’s TV, so I can’t be hiding everything without the character seeming emotionally dead.” There are times I wonder, “Oh, maybe I should have given a little more there.”
TVLINE | Speaking of giving more, how long did it take you to recover from that screaming scene in the alternate universe episode? I got tired just watching that.
That’s nice of you to say, hopefully there was some effect from that. They had me screaming all different kinds of ways that day. We did it over and over and over, but they only used like two seconds. They had to make a choice: What scream did they want to use? So you’re lying there screaming for 35 minutes, and by the time you’re done, you’ve had your workout; screaming is a great workout, so tell your friends. … I was definitely drained emotionally.
A local woman whose water broke on the morning of her wedding still got to have a very special day, thanks to the staff at Salem Health Family Birth Center.
Deborah Callandret and her fiance Shane planned to get married Monday, but her water broke around 4 a.m. (4 weeks early!) sending their wedding vows in a tizzy.
Deborah, who wasn’t yet in labor but was hospitalized, told her nurse she was supposed to get married Monday.
More than a dozen hospital employees scrambled to get flowers and decorations, while the hospital’s nutrition staff provided snacks, all for an impromptu hospital room wedding.
“It’s just a blessing to be able to care for families and to be able to make each part of their story happen. And I think it’s just special to be a part of that,” Assistant Nurse manager Teri McCarrell said.
The hospital’s lead chaplain Ken Morse, performed the wedding.
“I think it was absolutely amazing and a beautiful, wonderful thing that they did for my husband and me,” Deborah said.
“I thought it was really genuine of the nurses and the staff and it’s a beautiful thing,” Shane said.
As a contestant in the early years of “The Bachelor,” seasons four and six, Maribel “Mary” Delgado was one of the first to seek love through reality television.
Delgado won season six, but the match proved less than perfect. Then she found love again and married James Kordomenos of Tampa on New Year’s Eve 2015.
The ceremony was held in Cuba and included mostly American citizens, a rare feat made possible only through the normalization of relations between the U.S. and the island nation.
“It was a dream-come-true type of wedding,” said Delgado.
“Cuba was beautiful. I’d absolutely recommend others get married there.”
For decades, because the two countries had no formal relations, Cuba has been largely off limits for Americans who want a destination wedding there. But with relations undergoing normalization, Cuba could indeed become a popular choice.
“It is still a mysterious island to so many people here,” said Tracie Domino, an event planner based in Tampa who has arranged destination weddings in the Bahamas. “The excitement and intrigue alone could make it a fun place to marry.”
Americans have been marrying in the island nation for years, but the ceremonies usually involve a visiting U.S. citizen and a Cuban who fall in love and decide to wed there so they can return to America together.
Those born in Cuba who came to the U.S. as adults, and then fell in love with someone who followed the same path, have been known to return to Cuba for their nuptials so immediate family could attend.
Delgado was born in Cuba, though she left before she turned 1.
But what makes the wedding of Delgado and Kordomenos so unusual is that most of the 30 people in the wedding party were from the U.S. and had no link to Cuba.
Delgado, Kordomenos and their 30 guests went to Havana for five days and four nights on a licensed educational trip through Tampa-based travel company ASC International. Each day, the group visited Havana’s historic and cultural sites.
Through a Tampa friend with connections at the Hotel Nacional in Havana, the couple reserved the establishment’s waterfront garden in advance of their trip and had the area decorated to their request.
Then, on Dec. 31, when the day’s educational tour was complete, they were married by a friend who made the trip with them.
“It’s a gray area,” said Dana Reed, owner of ASC International. “We need to stay within what we do—taking people to Cuba for one of the 12 legal reasons. Mary has the unique situation that she was born in Cuba and had contacts there and can speak the language so could do something like this on her own.”
It may soon be easier for American couples to marry in Cuba.
Currently, those visiting Cuba for educational trips must be part of an organized tour group that takes them to sites such as museums, art galleries and music studios to learn about the nation’s culture. The tour group operator must vouch to the U.S. government that the experience fell under the educational category.
For Delgado, who now works at her own real estate brokerage, the wedding in Cuba was especially personal.
She was 11 months old in 1968 when her parents Juan and Juana Delgado carried her onto her father’s fishing boat along with her brother and three sisters—four if you include the sister still in the womb.
“They did not like the direction Cuba was taking,” Delgado said.
She has no memories of the family’s 36-hour journey at sea, but her sisters often talk of when the Coast Guard rescued them off the shores of Florida and took them to their headquarters in Miami, where the hungry family was provided a bounty of food.
“They said they thought they were taken to heaven,” Delgado said with a laugh.
Soon after, the family moved to Chicago and later, Tampa.
Fashion week runway shows in New York, Paris and Milan offer a taste of what’s to come. Fashion trends to look forward to: feathers, tiger print and embroidered silk. Here are some highlights.
NEW YORK – If you had to pick one adjective to sum up Michael Kors’ collection at last month’s New York Fashion Week, a good bet might be “feathery.”
The designer was going for “the flirty freedom of things that move,” to quote his production notes, and there were flirty feathers on at least 10 of the looks he sent down the runway – starting with feathers adorning a pair of jeans, and moving to feathers on a houndstooth tweed coat, on a denim or tweed skirt, and on black silk for ultimate evening effect.
There also were plenty of sequins, adding a very bright sheen to some of the fashions, especially a silver sequin embroidered “streamer” MarieProm evening dresses, with the hem cut into strips that indeed looked like streamers, and also a pair of seriously glistening silver metallic stretch tulle pants.
This is Kors’ flagship collection, not his more accessibly priced secondary line.
Kors always has a healthy celebrity contingent at his fashion shows, and February’s event was no exception: Blake Lively and Jennifer Hudson were among the front-row guests. They were there to witness an anniversary of sorts for Kors.
“I’m not one for anniversaries and I’m really not a big kind of looking-over-my-shoulder kind of guy,” Kors said in a backstage interview. “But when I started designing this I realized, oh my God, this is my 35th fall collection. That’s crazy!”
Kors added that as he reflected on the milestone, he realized the most important thing was to keep his fashion fun.
“I wanted this to be full of fun and charm,” he said. “So it’s very flirty, short, leggy, not a gown in sight. All the rules are broken because stylish people break the rules … The seasons are crazy anyway. So when the weather’s terrible, don’t you want to put on a fabulous apple green coat to change your spirits? Don’t you want to wear tweed with flowers? Don’t you want to put feathers on flannel? Wear flats at night? Wear metallic for a day?”
From his sunglasses to his gold glitter pumps, Kors’ collection exuded fun, not fuss. Even a denim skirt is luxe, when covered in feathers. A hoodie adds reality to a silver sequin cocktail dress. And who doesn’t love handbags the colors of jelly beans.
CAVALLI’S DECADENCE
MILAN – Even while venturing back in time to the Belle Epoque era, Peter Dundas’ latest collection for Roberto Cavalli remains rooted in the rock ‘n’ roll ’60s and ’70s. His collection bowed during Milan Fashion Week last month.
The languid looks were strong on glamour and workmanship, from the ephemeral sheer beaded evening dresses in pale shades to the colorful patchwork fur coats worthy of any rock star: art nouveau meets Janis Joplin.
”Decadence, superstition, mysticism, Gustav Klimt, Aubrey Beardsley – things that give me a kick,” Dundas said backstage, describing his inspirations.
He said the Roberto Cavalli woman for the season is ”a little wild and instinctive.”
The Cavalli animal print for next winter is tiger, in long skirts and short bomber jackets, while denim gets its due with a long trailing coat and flared embroidered jeans. Looks were finished with long scarves tied casually around the neck, makeup hastily done and hair loose and natural.
Notwithstanding the labor involved in his creations, Dundas says he would like to see his collections get into stores more quickly than the current system permits.
”I wish I could. I am working on it,” Dundas.
DIOR’S PARISIENNE
PARIS – Vogue fashion doyenne Anna Wintour, former French first lady Bernadette Chirac and Chinese actress Liu Yifei were among the celebrities on the front row of the Dior show held in an annex inside the picturesque Rodin Museum gardens in January.
In the clothes, the “spontaneous, relaxed Parisienne of today” mixed with the iconic styles of the 1940s and 1950s.
High-cut post-War shoes with occasional retro ankle bows accessorized embroidered silk gowns in freestyle volumes – often with “sensual, bare” accentuated shoulders. A couple of flapper-style lace, chiffon and tulle look also evoked the joyful feeling of the 1920s – the period between the two World Wars.
Dior’s studio team of designers also set about experimenting with the famed “bar jacket” – it “changes appearance depending on whether it is worn closed or loose,” said the program notes.
It thus came in myriad forms: in tight, embroidered black wool, loose and white, open to expose the breast sensually, oversized and masculine, or as a beautiful dark navy wool coat.
There were also traces of the historical musings of past creative directors – such as Galliano and Simons – set off nicely in one look off-white wool “bar” jacket interpretation with flappy 18th-century cuffs.
