A Fashionable Saturday

Dublin Fashion Festival takes over the city this weekend, setting up their ‘Fashion HQ’ in the old Waterstones building on Dawson Street. There are four days of make-overs, styling tips, fashion shows and free champagne. If you feel like some aesthetic indulgence on a shoestring there’s plenty to be had around town today, tomorrow and Sunday. 

Tomorrow, start off in Lush in the morning where they’re doing free facials and arm massages. Next, make for Fashion HQ for tips on how to put a stylish outfit together on a budget with fashion blogger Anne Marie O’Connor. Then, check out the Barnardos pop-up shop where bargain clothes you might once have thought suspect will now seem like diamonds in the rough, just waiting to be artfully styled. If you happen to buy a pair of impossibly high, but just perfect heels, stick around for the ‘How to walk in high heels’ masterclass at 2:30. You’ll have worked up an appetite by now, so head for the Westbury Hotel, where they’re serving a Fashionista’s Afternoon Tea until 5:30. Finish off with the Fashion Blogger’s Brainstorm to hear what the hippest, hottest and most happening of the fash-pack have to say about trends, blogging and the future of fashion.

For the full festival programme see http://www.dff.ie/home/full-programme-guide/