Irish Designers in Residence
Irish Designers in Residence
Kildare Village is proud to announce the launch of the Irish Designer in Residence Series 2025, an initiative aimed at celebrating and showcasing the bright stars of Irish design.
The series will spotlight talent from fashion and accessories, providing a unique platform for emerging and established designers to share their craft with a wider audience.
Through this series, Kildare Village will create a space to showcase the best designers in Ireland, offering guests an immersive and cultural shopping experience, with a strong focus on sustainable products for the eco-conscious shopper.
The first two brands featured in the series were luxury Irish brands Nomi and Aoife Mullane Design, both showcased in April. The series also featured the work of luxury sustainable fashion brand Aoife McNamara, and timeless fine jewellery from Chupi.
Our next edition of the series is running from Friday 9 to Sunday 11 May. We will be welcoming fashion designer Roisin Linnane, showcasing versatile, elegant pieces in her signature draped detail and jewellery designer Melissa Curry with bold, statement-making jewellery.
Melissa Curry
Melissa Curry is a trailblazer in Irish design, known for her bold, mood-boosting accessories and forward-thinking creative vision. Since launching at Paris Fashion Week in 1999 - where she was selected by Liberty of London to lead their Millennium campaign - Melissa has collaborated with global icons including Le Bon Marché, Galeries Lafayette, Swarovski, Phillippe Starck, and Virgin.
Her work blends colour, innovation, and play, always surprising and delighting customers across her brand experiences. Now based in Dublin, Melissa focuses on collaboration, sustainability, and the fast-growing world of travel retail. Her vibrant designs for Virign Voyages - spotted by Richard Branson's team - earned her a finalist spot at the DFNI Global Awards for Innovation and conscious fashion.
Alongside her collaborations, Melissa continues to grow PÓG, her gift-led jewellery brand inspired by Irish heritage and the Claddagh. Designed to comfort and connect, PÓG combines sensory design with joyful style and intergenerational appeal. Available at Dublin Airport, EPIC Museum, and selected U.S. and Irish retailers.
Roisin Linnane
Founded in 2002, Roisin in her studio in Naas, Co. Kildare, Roisin Linnane launched her women's clothing label. Over the years her range has evolved and grown but has always maintained its core belief of creating everyday luxury pieces that will endure, building a timeless wardrobe with a philosophy of "less is more". Her collections are versatile and effortlessly elegant, designed to transcend seasons and take you seamlessly from day to evening. With an emphasis on timeless simplicity, each piece in Roisin's collection reflects a balance of sophistication and ease, making them ideal for the modern woman who values both style and practicality.
An emphasis on attention to detail is applied to each piece as it is carefully curated from conception to pattern making and sampling, to perfecting the final product by Roisin and her dedicated team in their studio in Naas. They understand that today's woman needs clothing that fits into their busy, multifaced lives and her designs reflect this need for versatility as each piece can be mixed and matched.
Every piece tells a story... They are made with attentively chosen and sustainably sourced fabrics from taffeta, woven crepe, satin back crepe, silks and cashmeres, selected from their durability and minimal aftercare, ensuring that these pieces not only look beautiful but are practical for everyday wear. Sustainability is also at the heart of the brand, with commitment to ethical production and sourcing practices. Roisin Linnane's designs are created for the woman who wants to invest in timeless, quality pieces that feel as good as they look, offering both elegance and comfort without compromise.
Nomi
Nomi is about more than just getting dressed, it’s about how you feel in what you wear. Designed with a love for bold, effortless style, every piece is created to bring confidence, joy, and a sense of occasion to the everyday. We believe in statement pieces that don’t sit in the wardrobe waiting for the "right moment" but instead become the pieces you reach for time and time again.
Nomi is about confidence, ease, and the joy of getting dressed. Inspired by real women and their stories, each piece is designed with premium fabrics, meticulous attention to detail, and an inclusive fit. This is fashion that moves with you, elevates your everyday, and makes every moment worth dressing for.
Aoife Mullane Design
Aspirational
Uniquely designed fabrics stand the test of time in terms of quality and innovation, a statement piece in your space; investing in an aspirational aesthetic.
Irish Designed
Aoife Mullane’s designs are born of and inspired by, her Irish roots and reflective of the Irish coastal landscape. The entire process takes place on Irish soil and can be reflected in every fibre of the fabrics, all made using natural colour palettes and a signature glimmer of Irish charm embedded in luxury.
Hand Created
Designed by hand in Ireland from start to finish; an immersive and creative experience. Designs inspired by the Irish landscape and masterfully converted to adorn your space in style. An authentic, traditional process with a contemporary and unique flair.
Aoife McNamara
Aoife McNamara is a luxury sustainable fashion brand that creates unique garments inspired by nature, to protect nature. Founded in 2019, Aoife McNamara reimagines the future of sustainable design by reconnecting the fashion industry to the natural world.
The brand values creativity and beauty, people and planet, quality over quantity. It aims to create beauty not destroy it.
Aoife McNamara is the first B Corp certified Irish fashion brand.
Chupi
Chupi Sweetman designs timeless fine jewellery to celebrate life’s most precious moments of love, hope and everything in between. Working in recycled solid gold, precious stones and consciously sourced diamonds, her award-winning pieces are intended to mark every chapter in life’s perfectly imperfect journey.
Beautifully designed, consciously made
As much a beautiful design object as functional packaging, the suite is made almost exclusively with natural, biodegradable and sustainable materials, from paper and card to silk and organic cotton. Working with renowned packaging designer Vincent Villagér, the goal was to design packaging that could live on as keepsakes and equally be easily recycled.