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a b De Rosa, Sophie (27 September 2010). "World of: Orla Kiely, designer". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 7 February 2022.

Foam Board Printing Step-by-Step Instructions - Another resource that will help your children understand printing. This one is a set of KS1 friendly instructions which will help children to produce a print using a foam board.a b c d e Walshe, Barbara. "Orla Kiely: The Irish Charm". couttswoman.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. On Monday 17 th September, Orla Kiely ceased trading. Meaning that online business and retail stores in both London and Kildare closed. After seeing this news, I wanted to celebrate the designers fantastic work and patterns from over the years by visiting the Fashion and Textile museum’s exhibition dedicated to her life’s work.

The books are also presented in subtle tones and muted colours to appeal to the parents a little bit, too! Orla KielyI think that gives us a starting point for a discussion of social context, and I think Orla’s work will become a kind of reference for a certain period in time when it’s viewed in 50 or 100 years from now,” the curator explains. She began designing handbags and hats after her father noted during her first London Fashion Week that everyone was carrying a handbag, but no one was wearing a hat. [5] In the late 1990s, she had the idea to laminate cloth for handbags: "At the time, no one was doing anything like it. Laminated fabric, in those days, meant tablecloths." [3] Orla Kiely OBE is an Irish designer who is famous for her fabric and pattern designs. Her brand is recognisable by bright colours and the pattern of a stem with leaves. She was born in 1963 in Shankill, County Dublin in Ireland.

Having presented her first ready-to-wear collection in 2003 using simple, clean silhouettes that allowed the prints to stand out, her clothes have been worn by a vast supply of household names, including Alexa Chung, Kiera Knightly and the Duchess of Cambridge. From influence to impact, the Orla Kiely range at MyBag includes styles from practical tote bags with classic Orla Kiely floral print to cute mini leather handbags and embossed cross body bags taking heed from the many realms of Orla’s iconic career. The business empire, which Kiely runs with her husband, Dermott Rowan, from a small office and two boutiques in London, has not only earned the designer export awards and industry accolades, but she has even been immortalised on an Irish 82-cent stamp, the type most often used for first-class overseas mail. A Life in Pattern by Orla Kiely My love of fashion was evident from an early age… fashion would become my window to the world, a way to voice my personal language and communicate my ideas’ Kiely’s visually crisp and geometrically disciplined patterns work across clothes, accessories and homeware. This is combined with a particularly broad appeal, zeroing in on that difficult-to-hit sweet spot of delight, commercial success and aesthetic rigour that’s normally the reserve of articulate, perfectly pitched pop music.

The exhibition charts the growth and success of Orla Kiely from her first collection of hats at London Fashion Week in 1994, through the advent of the iconic Orla Kiely bag in the mid-nineties to her freelance work for department stores executed from her kitchen table in 1998. Pattern is not a trend for me, to be taken up one minute and abandoned the next when the winds of fashion change. Pattern is in me. It is my life’ Perhaps it should be no surprise that when Kiely has spoken about her musical preferences in the past, she’s listed contemporary artists such as Feist and Joanna Newsom, as well as classic acts such as Minnie Riperton and Van Morrison. Patterned prints from Orla Kiely KS1 All About Orla Kiely Fact File - This eye-catching Fact File, aimed at KS1 pupils, is a great resource to use while exploring colour and pattern. It summarises the life and work of the award-winning Irish designer Orla Kiely