Sporty sojourn in US leads to an ‘athleisure’ venture back home

Tara Cooke of Skulpt

Tara Cooke set up the athleisure venture Skulpt in Dublin in 2014 after she returned to Ireland from the US, where she had lived for a short time in Nashville, Tennessee.

Cooke worked in IT sales, but decided to move into retail after spotting a gap in the Irish market for fashionable US women’s sportswear.

“While I was over in Tennessee, I turned up one day to go running with a group of ...