Couturier Ib Jorgensen will be the subject of a major retrospective at the National Museum in Collins Barracks either late this year or early in 2012. He has already gathered together some 60 items for the show, including many from Ann Heseltine and the Countess of Rosse, but he is still looking for exceptional daywear pieces to be donated or loaned for the exhibition. “I made the clothes so well then that they hung on to them,” he says.

Those willing to part or lend items should get in touch with Alex Ward, assistant keeper of art and industrial design at the National Museum (tel: 01-6486469 or email award@museum.ie). The exhibition will also coincide with the reconstruction of the fashion area, which Jorgensen is also involved in. The outfit picturef left is of an Ib Jorgensen fox trimmed cape and trousers in herringbone tweed by Magees of Donegal, from his autumn couture collection 1975.