Desert Island Dress

Welcome back to our post-analysis episode of Desert Island Dress. Every other week, we take a moment to reflect on the stories and choices shared in the main conversation and pull on one of the threads that caught our attention.  🎨 This series features hand-drawn sketches of each of our guests by artist Louise Boughton @louiseboughton_ ✨ Stay connected with Desert Island Dress:  📸 Instagram: @desert_island_dress  🌐 Website: www.desertislanddress.com 💌 Our ask this series: share your favourite episode with a friend, or follow and subscribe on your podcast app — it really helps us grow! 

Welcome to our final guest episode for Series 4 of Desert Island Dress with Marie Kelly, a writer whose work moves effortlessly between fashion, culture, art and everyday life.  Beginning her career in London before returning to Ireland, Marie has spent more than two decades telling stories across luxury magazines and premium brands, with clients including Victoria Beckham, Stella McCartney and previous guest of Desert Island Dress, goldsmith, Nigel O’Reilly.  Most recently, Marie has co-founded Só Consulting with Gavin Manley, a luxury consultancy rooted in the Irish idea of só: a state of ease, comfort and contentment, defined not by status or spectacle, but by moments of genuine connection.  In this episode, Marie brings a thoughtful, considered perspective to her choices. As you’ll hear, each piece is carefully chosen, with her flair for storytelling illuminating the deeper meaning behind every item.  We are delighted to welcome Marie Kelly to Desert Island Dress.  

Welcome back to our post-analysis episode of Desert Island Dress. Every other week, we take a moment to reflect on the stories and choices shared in the main conversation and pull on one of the threads that caught our attention.   🎨 This series features hand-drawn sketches of your podcast hosts Dee & Katriona, and each of our guests by artist Louise Boughton @louiseboughton_ ✨ Stay connected with Desert Island Dress:  📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠@desert_island_dress⁠⁠   🌐 Website: ⁠⁠www.desertislanddress.com⁠⁠  💌 Our ask this series: share your favourite episode with a friend, or follow and subscribe on your podcast app — it really helps us grow!  For more stories, news and updates — including our first live show in Copenhagen with the Embassy of Ireland and recently published articles in RTÉ Brainstorm — visit ⁠⁠desertislanddress.com⁠⁠. 

Today, we are thrilled to share a conversation with someone whom both Katriona and I have admired for many years in our academic lives. When studying and teaching fashion, her work has always been a guiding force. She is the sociologist, feminist thinker, and cultural scholar, Professor Angela McRobbie. Our discussion with Angela travels across countries and decades, bringing us into the creative and political energy of 1970s Glasgow, the feminist debates and vintage-hunting culture of Birmingham, and the vibrant artistic worlds she later encountered in London and Berlin. Along the way, she reflects on how clothing becomes a way of thinking - a way of positioning oneself intellectually, politically, and personally. It’s a conversation that mirrors Angela’s lifelong commitment to understanding how what we wear both shapes us and reflects the worlds we move through. And truly, our own interest in the stories behind the clothes we wear has been deeply informed by reading culture theorists like Angela McRobbie. In many ways, Desert Island Dress is inspired by pioneering researchers such as herself, which makes it especially meaningful to share this episode today. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we did. 

Welcome back to our post-analysis episode of Desert Island Dress. Every other week, we take a moment to reflect on the stories and choices shared in the main conversation and pull on one of the threads that caught our attention.   🎨 This series features hand-drawn sketches of your podcast hosts Dee & Katriona, and each of our guests by artist Louise Boughton @louiseboughton_ ✨ Stay connected with Desert Island Dress:  📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠@desert_island_dress⁠⁠   🌐 Website: ⁠⁠www.desertislanddress.com⁠⁠  💌 Our ask this series: share your favourite episode with a friend, or follow and subscribe on your podcast app - it really helps us grow!  For more stories, news and updates — including our first live show in Copenhagen with the Embassy of Ireland and recently published articles in RTÉ Brainstorm - visit ⁠⁠desertislanddress.com⁠⁠.