Sinéad O’Dwyer, daughter of Irish artist and silversmith Kevin O’Dwyer, is the first Irish fashion student to graduate from the ArtEZ school in Arnhem in Holland where Viktor & Rolf studied.

She now heads to work with Alexander Wang in New York where she interned during her course and where the designer “treats his employees like gold”, she says. A gifted musician (her mother Adele is a music teacher), her youth was spent at orchestra and ballet camps during the summer.

This red dress in silk gazar, which uses gathering to give form and shape rather than seaming, is typical of her individual approach. An Irish talent to watch. sjodwyer@outlook.com Deirdre McQuillan