When a Credit Suisse Wall Street trader in New York and London abandons a promising career for the more precarious world of fashion, who knows what can happen?

Zoë Jordan, always referred to as daughter of Eddie Jordan, is a stylish dresser who has created an exciting label, Irwin Jordan, that brings some of the sartorial polish associated with successful businessmen to collections aimed at professional women.

That means well-cut jackets in Savile Row fabrics but with feminine insets of satin or ruffled backs that depart from conventional masculine norms – or sequinned tunics that can be worn over the narrow tweed trousers of a daytime suit for evening flourish.

Check out her summer collection which opens in a pop-up shop at Brown Thomas on February 28th for a few weeks, or in Diffusion in Clontarf.