The Thoughtful Shopper: sustainable sleepwear, design collaborations and new luxury launches in the Irish market
Your guide to spring’s best sustainable fashion drops from Irish and international designers
The Essentials
Word on the street is that mules are fashion’s footwear of choice this season, and what better style to invest in than these Mary Jane mules from Melbourne footwear label ESSĒN. Short for essentials, the brand has a simple philosophy: buy less, choose better, wear longer. A key feature of the brand is its transparency report, whereby each pair of shoes listed online offers information about its journey from manufacturing to finished product, the distance it clocked between suppliers and how many wears you can get out of the shoes: 728 is the magic number for most, including for these mules, which were handcrafted in Italy using Leather Working Group-certified leather. €219, essenthelabel.com
