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My Objects of Desire: Shelly Corkery, fashion buying director for Brown Thomas, talks style icons, favourite looks and what trends have been telling us about the national mood

Shelly Corkery, fashion buying director for Brown Thomas, photographed for Irish Tatler by Nathalie Márquez Courtney

I so miss getting to go into a showroom and being able to touch things. I’m led by the detail, in terms of the touch and feel of the material and the buttons and the stitch.

Fashion changes no matter what. During lockdown, we had to diverge into sweatshirts, jersey and T-shirt materials, but now it’s definitely diverted back to dresses as our number one category, which tells you a lot.

Collections got tighter during ...