All this month Brown Thomas have been running The Masters of Fashion & Beauty throughout the country in all their stores.  There have been various events with well known characters from the world of fashion and beauty taking part in Fashion Fix Thursdays and Fridays and Style Saturdays.  We’ve also seen a series of master classes from International designers and celebrity make-up artists, meaning we, ‘joe public’, can get invaluable advice from the experts, straight from the catwalks.

There are many events running straight through from Thursday – Sunday but, we’ve cherry picked the best events running nationwide:

Brown Thomas, Limerick

‘Style Saturday’ will actually be running on Sunday this weekend with local celebrity Celia Holman Lee presenting a Style Workshop featuring Max Mara.  Head to Level 1 at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm if you fancy picking up so fashion tips from Celia herself.

Brown Thomas, Cork

Model and TV3 presenter, Glenda Gilson, will be hosting a ‘We Love Shoes’ event showing her must have foot candy for this season.  Glenda will be on Level 1 in the Shoerooms at 12.30pm, 1.30pm, 2.30pm, 3.30pm and 4.30pm.

Brown Thomas, Dublin

One of our favourite Irish stylists, Cathy O’Connor, will be hosting ‘Style Sunday’ fashion workshops on this seasons contemporary and denim trends.  Cathy is so approachable and a great stylist for anyone looking for help putting this seasons trends into action.  You’ll find her on Level 2 at 2pm, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm.

Brown Thomas, Galway

TG4′s Blathnaid Ni Dhonnchadha is presenting a series of fashion workshops along the same theme as Cathy O’Connor’s, including denim and up to the minute trends.  These workshops will run on Level 2 at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm.

Now, there’s no excuse to hang about all mismatched and bored this weekend.

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I had the pleasure of meeting one of Ireland’s nicest and well known stylists at the launch of the Warehouse Summer ’10 Collection last week.  Cathy O’Connor is the kind of woman you watch on TV and instantly warm to, she has that likeability factor as Simon Cowell would say that so many people on TV try hard to have but miss it completely!  Cathy is regularly on our little screens working with XPose, Ireland AM and RTE from time to time.

Well rest assured ladies she is as nice if not better in person, really friendly and open to being pestered as she was trying to suss out the new collection – will come to that in a min!  Cathy was dressed top to toe in black and feeling the heat as it was one of the first warm days we had.  Thigh high boots coupled with a parka style coat cinched in at the waist with a thick black belt made her look effortlessly cool as opposed to overly styled.  Cathy said she loved the collection and was trying on several items that day so with her seal of approval I followed suit!

To sum up what to expect from their collection… tees, stripes, pastels, lace, chiffon, denim, floral, fabulous collection of dresses and playsuits.  Accessories were also impressive with bib necklaces, chunky bangles and quirky pieces that all the stylists (most well known) were snapping up on the morning.  I had know intentions of shopping so left with… a fitted short linen jacket with stripe detailing on the cuffs, leggings, three tees in pastel shades one with ruffle detailing on the shoulders, two stripe dresses (to wear as tops!) and a leather detail bangle – not bad considering the ‘not buying anything’ mantra running through my mind on the way in!

So to conclude, 1. Cathy O’Connor gets the wow.ie thumbs up as all round nice gal and 2. check out the new collection at Warehouse

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