Geared for men

Oliver Spencer is not your typical fashion designer.

Granted, he designs clothes for a living but, unlike many artists of haute couture, he is openly commercial and wary of elitist fashion industry tags being attached to his work. He’s also married and a sports fanatic.

In Dublin to promote his eponymous label, which has just been launched at Brown Thomas, Spencer describes his initial foray into the fashion world as a hobby he ...