Worried about what to do with your teenage daughter during the summer holidays? Well, one way to fill a week is to send her on image consultant Geraldine Brand's style course. The Monday to Friday affair - held in Dublin - covers skincare and hairstyles, deportment, wardrobe co-ordination and good eating habits. Since the maximum number of participants in any course is 12, Brand promises individual attention. The price is £150 for a week. Tel 018327332.
ON last week's page, we mentioned the NCAD fashion show next month. Also due - on Tuesday, June 8th - is the Limerick School of Art & Design show, which will be staged in the university's concert hall and will feature work by a wide range of aspiring designers, including 14 degree and 20 diploma students. For tickets and information, tel 061-415255. Coming up this Thursday is the annual Smirnoff Fashion Awards, at Dublin's Vicar Street, with 18 student participants from the main Irish colleges. Judges include designers John Rocha and Marc O'Neill, fashion consultants Eddie Shanahan and Barbara McMahon, and photographer Perry Ogden. Information/limited number of tickets, tel 01-6789333. An exhibition of garments by all the entrants will be in the Exhibition Hall of Arnotts from Saturday for a week. Finally, an exhibition of work by the graduates of Ballyfermot's Senior College higher national diploma in fibre art will be on show this week until Friday evening at the Office of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands on Mespil Road, Dublin.
One last plug this week: for the Irish Youth Foundation's annual Bloomsday Lunch to be held as usual in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin. So why the mention here? Because the post-prandial entertainment will be a fashion auction featuring work by all our favourite designers, namely Michael Mortell, Lainey Keogh, Mary Gregory, Louise Kennedy and others. Tel 01-6261090 for additional information.
