FALL 2024 READY-TO-WEAR
Roisin Pierces way of speaking can take your breath away.
The name of the collection is O Lovely One, Fallen From a Star, she said.
Shes essentially an angel who’s come to earth to bring peace, hope and love.
I wanted to create something quite heavenly, with this numinous feeling.
A feeling of protection.
Well, through the ornate salons of the Irish embassy in Paris to be exact.
Pierce works with her mother Angela in Dublin, reinterpreting Irish hand-crafted traditions, while infusing poetry into them.
Her deeply-considered collections emerge when theyre ready, once a year.
Pierce said she had been researching images of high divinity in which worshipped women appear across many cultures.
She noticed a common denominator shared across classical representations of ancient mythologies and world religions.
They were always wrapped in transparency, floating, vaporous.
Her self-invented iconography was there in lattice work knitwear.
I see it as X-es.
Kisses, she said.
Headpieces, which appeared to be almost organically grown, resembled seafoam, haloes and stars.
Hand-crocheted Posy-holders dangled from tiny garlands.
The materials Pierce uses are mostly deadstock Swiss bridal laces, organza and cotton yarn.
Pierces compelling work has gathered her own real-life angels to uplift her career.
