I can sell the dream and the look and create what our clients want, but after that you need the team

Fashion designer Deborah Veale free to produce her limited edition collections thanks to corporate clients

Deborah Veale Pic: Fergal Phillips

CV: Deborah Veale

Age:52

Occupation: fashion designer and businesswoman

Family: married to Charlie Hanrahan, daughter Sorcha

Currently driving: Volvo

Favourite film: Rebecca by Alfred Hitchcock

Reading: Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

Is fashion good for your mental health? “Completely,” says Deborah Veale, settling her china cup on its saucer in Dublin’s Merrion Hotel. If Sex and the City sold shopping as feminist, Veale is selling it as a powerful psychological tool.