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Skip to content The recent Harvey Weinstein revelations have thrown up many questions about why society facilitates adult bullies and sexual predators. Blogger Laurie Morrissey looks at how we raise girls to be pleasing and why Big Business enables repeat offenders.... There’s a lot of talk about bullies these days. Bullies in the workplace, bullies in the playground.  Bullies from a...

  “A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste—it’s hearty, it’s healthy, it’s physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I’m against.” The inimitable words of the late Diana Vreeland, former editor in chief at Vogue (1963-71) who understood that style is all...

On wearing leopard print, Christian Dior warned his clients: ‘If you are fair and sweet, don’t wear it’.   Of all the patterns, leopard print is the most sassy, trashy, elegant, sexual, sexy, empowering and daring. From Taylor Swift's good girl gone bad leopard print dress in her new music video for 'Look What You Made Me Do' to supermodel Kate...

The majestic Kilronan Castle in Co Roscommon provided a fitting backdrop to a unique fashion shoot for Irish designer Catriona Hanly’s opulent creations. Exquisite.ie’s Aisling O’Loughlin was joined by actress Aoibhin Garrihy, model and art expert Ros Lipsett and models Taylor Digie and Lasma Kalnaja of Assets to showcase the autumn winter collection. Shot by photographer Eilish McCormick, the equestrian...

  Today marks the birthday of Grabrielle 'Coco' Chanel who was born on the 19th of August 1883 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire in France. To celebrate one of fashion's greatest and most enduring designers, Exquisite.ie's Aisling O'Loughlin explores the seaside resort where the young Coco set up her first fashion boutique in 1913 before conquering the world.... You can see why Gabrielle...

It was the Irish born editor of the US edition of Harper’s Bazaar, Carmel Snow, who coined the phrase the New Look that trumpeted the arrival of Christian Dior’s bold new designs as Europe emerged bleary and broken from the ruins and atrocities of World War II. The silhouette was rather audacious considering the amount of material required following a...

Such an audacious act, the selfie. The bit that makes it so brazen is pressing the button and posting your mug for all to see and rate. The rest is understandable. Of course we’re curious about ourselves. What are we even doing here? Examining our faces, whether in admiration, disapproval or just plain interest, is to be expected considering...

Let’s hear it for the rule breakers. Those rebels who ignore tradition and go their own way. Say what you like about preserving standards and respect for institutions, without those feisty sartorial renegades, us ladeez would possibly still be squeezed into corsets, restricted and contained in more ways than one. I may be wearing some huge, man repelling, sucky...

The Taste of Dublin is possibly one of the luckiest events on the Irish social calendar when it comes to the weather. Baking temperatures brought out the crowds (some 35,000) over the weekend for a celebration of the culinary highlights of some of the city's most popular eateries and food producers. Ireland's top blogger, Pippa O'Connor looked relaxed and...

Dublin's Ebow gallery has reopened after a five year hiatus to play host to the Irish instalment of the ‘Bowie by Duffy’ exhibition. The show focuses on the relationship between David Bowie and photographer Brian Duffy that created, amongst others, the iconic Aladdin Sane album cover. Between 1972 and 1980 Duffy worked with Bowie on five powerful photo sessions. From Ziggy...