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The handbags and glad rags girlHelen Cody is not someone who will take no for an answer and neither will she cut corners or opt for the easy way out. Ciara Dwyer meets the dedicated fashion designer as she launches a new collection and a book in aid of Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin

By Ciara Dwyer

'I don't like the word 'no', "says Dublin fashion designer Helen Cody. "I don't like that something is impossible. I love that something can happen by just changing your opinion or flipping something around sideways.

Fee G does it with rich colours

By Constance Harris

As Ryan Tubridy joked last Monday, "good morning, it's Monday the 18th of November" I looked out my window and thought "ye Gods", he could be right. The sky is grey, the roads are washed with rain, the wind is cold.

heritage revisited

By FASHION EDITED BY CONSTANCE HARRIS PHOTOGRAPHY BY Magnus Reed

There is nothing like nostalgia and its soothing presence to calm anxious, recession-obsessed minds. The rise in popularity of costume drama, the impact of films such as Atonement, and the remaking of such classics as Brideshead Revisited have all played their part in the "heritage revisited" new trend within fashion, especially fashion imagery.

STYLEWATCH: Florals

Still a huge look for the coming season. It's either cute and tea-dressy or big and scrawled. Pair with a leather jacket for the ultimate transitional look.

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