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SANDSTORM

This SS19 collection developed as a meditative project, reflecting on the over saturation of imagery and news, the over stimulation and over consumption present in our busy daily routine. I had a desire to go back to basics – to appreciate simplicity and order. Using a neutral palette, garments combine the calmness of linens and raw silks with military references and utilitarian details. This army resists today’s chaotic and uncertain social, political, and environmental climate. Waterproof coated linens and large cargo pockets remind us, in these uncertain times, to always be resourceful, always prepared, always be ready.

#weather #drought #climatechange #outerwear #fashion #irishdesign #resourceful #zerowaste #landscape #environment #perspective #layering #sandstorm #desert #camouflage #linen #adapt #rawmaterials #studio reflection #oversaturation #overstimulation #overconsumption #chaos #collage

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IRISH FASHION INNOVATION AWARDS 2019

TEODORA, KATIE & KERRIE WEARING AMIE EGAN SS19 SANDSTORM

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Photos by Cathal Bowe

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Thinking about where I'm at with everything!!

#reflection#chaos#oversaturation#overconsumption#overstimulation#detox#faceuptoreality

“Art is not self-expression. It is the self expressing all of the elements of the culture that has shaped it. We filter the ambient information that surrounds us—from our families, from our communities, from the information that bombards us every day from myriad sources. We do not create this information; it helps to create us. We in turn start to interpret it and describe it to ourselves and to others as a means to understand it. This is the art impulse. Even works of pure imagination have sources outside of ourselves. Know your sources.” - 101 Things to Learn in Art School, Kit White

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THE IRISH TIMES

Weatherproof Irish fashion: inspired by the landscape to keep out the elements

The Offaly-based designer Amie Egan on making everything by hand and looking to the landscape

Thank you Deirdre McQuillan for the feature!

READ HERE - https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/fashion/weatherproof-irish-fashion-inspired-by-the-landscape-to-keep-out-the-elements-1.3777875

 
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Words by Deirdre McQuillan for The Irish Times, Photography Agata Stoinska, Production Agata Stoinska and Eddie Shanahan, Styling Amie Egan and Eddie Shanahan, Clothes by AMIE EGAN, Hair and make-up Ivy Sullivan, Model Niamh McCormack, Shot on location at D-light Studios, Dublin.

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Delighted to be participating in the ARC Cancer Support Centres Fashion Show 2019, March 28th

Help raise vital funds for this amazing charity!

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE €55 each - https://shop.arccancersupport.ie/events-and-tickets/29-arc-fashion-event.html

ARC provides a range of professional support, counselling and complementary therapy services to people affected by cancer. Whether someone has recently been diagnosed with cancer, is in recovery, or is a family member or friend of someone with cancer, ARC offers a warm and caring environment to nurture the individual, relieve their stress and anxiety, and encourage healing.  All services are free of charge

This event will be the biggest and most extravagant fashion show in Dublin in 2019. The innovative and well known Irish designers featuring their pieces are as follows –

The full line up of Irish talent includes Sarah Murphy, Helena Malone, Leonora Ferguson, Four Threads, Amie Egan, Theo+George, FAO Millinery, Heidi Higgins & Aoife Kirwan (collaboration), Niamh O’Neill, Jill & Gill, Charlotte Lucas, Sara O’Neill, Helen Hayes, Mona Swims, Alla by Alla Sinkevich, Fintan Mulholland, Aoife Mullane, Rebecca Marsden, Colin Burke & a selection from the CIFD / DCCOI Collaboration Project

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LINK - https://galwaynow.com/meet-the-finalists-the-2019-irish-fashion-innovation-awards/

Delighted to be announced as a finalist!

The 10th annual Irish Fashion Innovation Awards, hosted by Goldenegg Productions, will present a spectacular showcase from Ireland’s most promising designers on 14th March, 2019 at The Galmont Hotel & Spa in Galway (formerly Radisson Blu).

The show will feature the most exciting Irish design talent across a range of disciplines – fashion, millinery, jewellery and accessories. Many of the designers featured in the past have already established themselves in markets as diverse as New York, Ibiza and London.

These awards continually aspire to showcase the most cutting-edge designers to an incredibly fashion conscious audience and are recognised as a launching pad for Ireland’s most talented fashion creatives

MARCH 14TH, GALWAY, GET YOUR TICKETS HERE -https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/irish-fashion-innovation-awards-2019-tickets-52403845312

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BROWN THOMAS CREATE 2018 LAUNCH

MONDAY JULY 2nd BROWN THOMAS, FLOOR LEVEL 1, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN

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BROWN THOMAS WINDOW

Thank you to Brown Thomas Galway who sponsor the 'ONES TO WATCH' category at the Irish fashion Innovation Awards!

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Photo credit Colin Burke

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Irish Examiner - Meet the next generation of Irish Designers

Photo by Miki Barlok

Photo by Miki Barlok

Thank you Carolyn Moore for the feature!

Words by Carolyn Moore for irish Examiner, Photo by Miki Barlok for Irish Examiner, Production & styling: Carolyn Moore, Hair & make up: Keira Smyth and Annie Keogh for The Make Up Crew, Temple Bar, Dublin and Tobin St, Cork. See themakeupcrew.ie., Models: Jeanne and Eimear at Not Another Agency. Shot on on location in the Circle Club,Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Grand Canal Square, Dublin. See bordgaisenergytheatre.ie/circleclub.

ARTICLE LINK - https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/lifestyle/meet-the-next-generation-of-irish-designers-832977.html

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ARC Designer Fashion Show - the biggest Irish names and the best emerging talent!

- Produced by Eddie Shanahan, in association with ARC Cancer support Centres, kindly supported by Arthur Cox. Sponsors - Brown Thomas, No7, Boots. Premium Patrons - Fabrik Creative Media, Standard Life Investments

It was an honour and pleasure to show my SS18, The Hunt, collection at the ARC Designer Fashion Show last Thursday, 8th March 2018 in the RDS Concert Hall, Dublin. Thank you to Eddie Shanahan for giving me the opportunity to be involved in this special event. This was a charity event to raise money for a very worthy cause. All proceeds to Arc Cancer Support Centres. 

Congratualtions to the whole team!

lots of love,

Amie x

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LIMERICK INTERNATIONAL FASHION STUDENT AWARDS

ST MARY'S CATHEDRAL, LIMERICK CITY, 23rd OCTOBER 2014

I took part in a runway show and competition, in Limerick City, along with 47 other designers from across Europe! Each designer showed a mini collection of two looks! It was super exciting to be in St Mary's Cathedral and to see the creative vision of my contemporaries! Well done to the winner Juliane Kaatzsch, University of Art and Design Burg-Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany.