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Desert Island Dress

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  • Postanalysis: inspired by conversations with Gavin Friday
    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.  ✨ 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. 
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  • Behold the Man: Gavin Friday on Style, Rebellion, and Identity
    Today we have another wonderful guest for you — the creative, singular, stylish disruptor and artist, Gavin Friday.We first met Gavin back in May at the launch of a new exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland. The exhibition, curated by Gary O’Neill, celebrates Dublin youth culture, street style, and subcultures from the 1960s to the 1990s. Gary has spent the last two decades collecting materials from the public, photographers, and photojournalists — and if that sounds like your kind of thing, the exhibition runs until March 2026 at Collins Barracks. What struck us that evening was Gavin’s enthusiasm for the Desert Island Dress project, and the care he put into choosing his four items to bring to the island. From challenging ‘fashion norms’ on the streets of 1970s Dublin, to celebrating the craft of a well-tailored three-piece suit by the late 1980s, Gavin never shies away from contradictions. Instead of shedding one identity for another, he layers and curates them — creating a fusion of all he has been, and all he is becoming. As his most recent album title suggests, we are invited to Ecce Homo - “Behold the Man.” We hope you enjoy this colourful journey through time, subcultures, and shifting institutions — with the absolute gent that is Gavin Friday. 
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  • Post-analysis inspired by: Jo Ellison
    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.  ✨ 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. 
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  • From Vogue to the FT — Jo Ellison brings fashion smarts and fun to the island
    Kicking off our fourth series, we are so excited to welcome Jo Ellison to Desert Island Dress. Jo Ellison, as many of you will know, is the editor of HTSI/ How to Spend It at the Financial Times, and formerly Fashion Editor at the Financial Times and Features Editor at Vogue. Having Jo spend time in the “hot seat,” as Katrina would call it, was a dream come true, and we really hope she enjoyed the conversation as much as we did. We were particularly delighted to learn how influential Ireland and Irish culture have been for Jo — from her early teenage crushes, through her first journalistic job in Cork at the Cork Examiner, cutting her teeth as an apprentice, to spending the last 30 years in domestic bliss with a previous guest and friend of Desert Island Dress, Irish playwright Enda Walsh!  What a fabulous guest to kick off the series! We absolutely loved chatting with Jo, and we left the conversation as total fangirls of the one and only Jo Ellison. Enjoy this episode!  🎨 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 ⭐ Don’t forget to follow, rate & review the podcast — it really helps more people find us. 💌 And if you're enjoying Desert Island Dress, please do share your favourite episode with a friend!
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  • Post-analysis: Effort, Authenticity & the Ritual of Dressing - reflecting on conversations with Mandy Johnston
    In this post-analysis episode, we reflect on our conversation with Mandy Johnston and explore the themes that stuck with us—effort, authenticity, and the subtle power of getting dressed.From the blurred lines of post-COVID workwear to the quiet authority of a well-chosen outfit, we discuss why what we wear still matters. We also share a standout clip from The Diplomat that perfectly captures the politics of appearance in public life.Don’t forget to catch Mandy’s full episode from earlier this week, and follow us to stay updated on what's happening next with Desert Island Dress.
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About Desert Island Dress

Inspired by the classic BBC radio programme broadcast, Desert Island Discs, our new podcast Desert Island Dress follows a similar arrangement and asks guests to choose four items of dress, items which likewise have shaped guests’ lives, that they could not bear to leave behind on the mainland. Items that cannot be replaced.
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