Exhibitors
Velorbis
Velorbis was born from the hunt for a desirable bicycle to cycle around London on as an alternative to public transport after the London bombings in 2005. The founders; a Dane and a Swede living in London brought up with sit-up-and-beg style bicycles, couldn't find what they were looking for and therefore decided to design their own. The rest is history...Velorbis supports global urban sustainability and green transportation initiatives and its aim is to encourage as many people as possible to adopt a stylish two-wheeled approach.
Velorbis has opened an exclusive new concept store in Copenhagen, Denmark to cater for their growing popularity in the Scandinavian market. They also plan to extend their network of concept stores in other major European cities in the near future. Velorbis are currently expanding their worldwide retailer base and are focusing on primary markets such as Scandinavia, Germany, Holland, Spain, the US, Canada and Australia. Velorbis has launched a UK web shop with direct delivery to its UK customers.
For further information, please visit www.velorbis.co.uk
Think Bike - Stockist for Velorbis
THINKBIKE is run by a young team of passionate cyclists from many different areas of cycling. We are customer focused and are pleased to see people enjoy the simple pleasure of cycling. We hope this website will have the service and information you require and we look forward to seeing you instore soon..
Postal Address
Unit 1 Rathmines Town Centre
Lower Rathmines Road
Rathmines
Dublin 6
Ireland
Belletik
BelleEtik is Ireland's first online ethical boutique, selling fabulous women's clothing, which has been produced to the highest quality in studios, cooperatives and small factories around the world, mostly handmade by designers and craftspeople.
belleEtik works with designers and producers who share our passion for beautiful fabrics & great design, but also who are guided by the principals of Fairtrade, proper production and working conditions and respect for the environment. All the companies we work with either produce under Fairtrade conditions (
) or participate in the Ethical Fashion Show in Paris, the first fashion event to bring together designers who have signed up to a charter of good conduct for sourcing and production.
At belleEtik we are aspiring to slow fashion - to provide clothing which looks and feels great, is of high quality, long lasting and many of our items are handmade. We invite you to indulge in cashmeres & silks, soft organic cotton, wools and Irish linen and uncover a passion for texture, craftsmanship, quality, and shapes. Ideally it is about buying less, but investing in quality; adding colour; looking after our clothes and even handwashing. (fair enough the looking after & handwashing - are more often a good intention, but can be very relaxing).
For more information visit; www.belletik.com
Basil BV
When Marthijn van Balveren took the responsibility of the familial company, he decided to make bicycles' accessories stylish, and trendy. The whole idea is to create new products that attract people, and make them proud to use them. Since 2005, Marthijn's team is working intensively with Dutch designers in order to bring more design and fashion into the bicycle baskets & bags. They are now becoming a Hip & Trendy brand, both in bicycle accessories and fashion industries. However, they never forget functionality. Just look at their All Rain Cover: keeps your child dry & safe, in combination with a trendy style…
For more information please visit: www.basil.nl
Cycle Chic London
Cyclechic.co.uk is a website for women who want to cycle in style. We sell a range of stylish cycling accessories from the beautiful Bern Muse Helmets to Dutch Kitchen Kitchen Panniers. The site also offers tip and advice from cycle safety to cycle fashion
Cyclodelic
Cyclodelic was started two years ago by designer and cyclist Amy Fleuriot in response to the lack of stylish yet functional products for female bicyclists. With lots to carry to and from the workshops at the London College of Fashion the original aim was to produce a bag to help ease her commute by bicycle whilst still managing to turn up to university as stylish as the other fashion students. A job developing after schools cycle design courses in collaboration with Sustrans led to her meeting ex courier and Textile Designer Sarah Buck who was later to form the other half of Cyclodelic.
Cyclodelic has already been in several fashion shows including Pret a Rouler in 2006 and was the organiser behind London Fashion Weeks first cycle fashion show 'Wheels and Heels' in 2008, which recently won TFL's award for 'Marketing and Travel Awareness Event of the Year'.
Together Sarah and Amy design, print and make everything in the collection from their London studios. With Sarah's expertise in Textile design, Amy's design and pattern cutting background and a few thousand miles of pedaling experience between them they hope to revolutionise the cycle wear market with their ever expanding range of products and will be debuting their first clothing collection at the Cycle Chic fashion show.
For further information please visit: www.cyclodelic.co.uk
Betty Basket Liners
"After leaving a career in teaching to raise my boys, I kept searching and searching for my creative outlet. Little did I know, it would appear before my eyes while doing something I love every day..riding my bike.
After the birth of our 3rd child, my husband surprised me with my first cruiser bike. Of course, I had to have a basket! Living in sunny Colorado, I can ride my bike everywhere.. to the store, to school, the market, to the park. I repeatedly encountered the same problem....smaller things kept falling out of my basket! So, out of necessity, I finally decided to make a stylish and sturdy basket liner that added a little flare to my bike, but more importantly that could double as a bag to carry all of our "stuff". Shortly thereafter, I was bombarded with requests from friends and family to make one for them. And thus, Betty Basket Liners was born, now my fourth child! Here I am, embarking on this journey to provide hip, designer basket liners that are eco-friendly and functional.
Hope you enjoy the ride!"
Tara Thomas Byrnes
For further information please visit: www.bettybasketliners.com
Kilgrews
Kilgrews Cycles is Corks leading Bicycle Centre. We have been in business in Cork City for over 100 years (have a look at our history section for some interesting old pictures) and continue to offer top quality service and support to our customers. We cater for all tastes and stock Bicycles that will suit all walks of life from Children to Commuters and Competition Riders as well. We stock Trek, Giant, Raleigh, , Falcon, Saxon, Carbon Fibre Racers and Children's Tricycles i.e. we have something for everyone, Come in to our store and see for yourself.
For further information please visit: www.kilgrewscycles.ie
RidingPretty
RidingPretty is the young Californian Shelly Schroeder's initiative dedicated to all those girls in the world who want to look pretty while riding their bicycle. Shelly has designed helmet covers with style as the foremost reason in mind...a way to cover up your bicycle helmet, stay cosy and warm in winter, cool and sun protected in summer. Be and look fabulous in your bicycle helmet! 
RidingPretty blog is primarily concerned with covering practical aspects of fashionable bicycling for ladies who are more or less new to bicycling. There you will find Bicycle Chic fashion resources, lots of California street photos, helmet safety advocacy, bike advocacy, events, tips and more.
For further information please visit: www.ridingpretty.com
Rothar Cycles
Rothar cycles is a local shop situated in Cork City center (Barrack Street). It retails several international brands and provides all type of bikes for very reasonable prices. In addition Rothar cycles carries out repairs to all makes of cycles and is involved in renting bikes.
Since 1992, Aidan Quinlan organized Rothar Cycle Tours. They are weeks long cycle tours in West Cork, Ireland, Brittany (France) and even Cuba!
For further information please visit: www.rotharcycletours.com
Store
French Church Street, Cork.
Tel: +353 (0) 21 427 9889
YellowHouse Label
After my first child and in an effort to buy clothes that were different,I started to buy childrenswear from English and European mail-order catalogues all the while wondering why we didn't have our own Irish equivalent. The idea took root and having qualified in fashion design I decided to create an Irish Label that is synonymous with high quality childrenswear. Now five children later my designs aim for 100% practicality , are machine washable and high in comfort factor. Yellow House has now been designing and making unique designs in Ireland since 1999.
For further information please visit: www.yellowhouse.ie
Deirdre Harte
Fashion Designer
Deirdre Harte from Co Wicklow, graduated from The National College of Art and Design in June 2008 with a Bdes Hons in Embroidered Textile Design and from the Limerick School of Art and Design 2002 with a Diploma in Fashion. Since leaving college Deirdre has produced a one off collection for Oxfam Ireland's ‘Re-styled' campaign. All proceeds from the sale of work went towards Oxfam's work fighting global poverty and injustice. Deirdre was the winner of the ‘Totally Oxfam' design competition run by Re-dress for the first ever Dublin Ethical Fashion Week in April 2008 www.re-dress.ie . She was a finalist in The Nokia Young Designer of the Year in February 2008. She is currently launching her first season for her label Dee Harte. Showcased at ‘Uprising' organized by Fashion Breakthrough www.fashionbreakthrough.com
Ethical fashion represents for her an approach to the design, sourcing and manufacture of clothing, which is both socially and environmentally responsible. She brings new life to old clothing capturing the uniqueness and ‘one- off' quality that only comes from being hand sourced and handmade. Clever inventiveness is at the core of this design ethos, tastefully reconstructing old ideas.
Re-cut, Re-design, Re- sew.
U will find her at The Loft, Powerscourt Townhouse, Dublin.
www.deeharte.com coming soon.
Lisa Shawgi
Fashion Designer
Lisa Shawgi is a knitwear designer of Irish and Egyptian/Sudanese parentage. She spent most of her childhood in the Sudan before moving to Dublin in 1995, and she often uses the juxtaposition of both cultures as an inspiration for her creations. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2005 with a BA in Fashion Design. It was here in her final year Lisa discovered her love of knitwear and it's endless abilities to create her own distinctive style. With this new found passion she went on to swoop three awards for one of her unique knitted creations in the RDS National Crafts Competition.
After leaving NCAD, Lisa went on to work for designers such as Lainey Keogh, and Vera Wang, where she further developed her design and technical skills along with involving herself in the everyday running of the studios.
Lisa Shawgi later devoted all of her efforts in launching her own knitwear label in 2007. Colour and texture are key elements in creating soft, luxurious sensual knitted fabrics and combined with original and innovative designs, Lisa Shawgi produces unique, eye catching feminine knitwear where attention to detail is essential in giving each creation beautifully finished features.
The Label Lisa Shawgi has been featured in publications such as Tatler, Image and Prudence Magazine, The Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Sunday Business Post, RTE's TV programme Nationwide, TV3'S programme Ireland AM and The Crafts Council Of Ireland's ‘Stories in The Making', as well as American Irish Newspapers (to name a few). Exclusively made in Ireland, the label is stocked in selected Irish boutiques and sold to clients overseas.
For further information please visit www.lisashawgi.com
Amelie G
Fashion Designer
A young fashion designer, Amelie Goillot launched her own label Amélie G after beginning making her own creations five years ago in France.After participating in several exhibitions in Toulouse, Amelie went on to win an award for her creativity in the fashion show "Defile en Aiguille".Now based and living in Dublin Amélie designs and produces her own collections which she shocased on The Loft market in Powerscourt.Her inspiration come from old military style,people, before create a new clothes the question is "how to play with it?" because a garment is not just a piece of fabric, she like to associates different fabrics, colours and textures and all the time she minds about the quality of the fabrics. Her garments are studied to have good thermical skills.Amelie's new Autumn/Winter collection consists of well thought out patterns combined with Pyrenne wool keeping the wearer warm and stylish.Lot of ideas on the mind she has a lot of project in process, a new collection only with organic fabrics because she is focus on the well being of everybodies.
For further information please visit: www.myspace.com/ameliefashion
2WHEELS
2Wheels Cycles, located in the heart of Sandymount Village is Dublins newest and most ambitious bicycle shop. If you want to browse our catalog of bicycles and accessories (many of which you will only find at 2Wheels), book your bike in for repair, get in touch with one of our staff or simply keep up to date with news and at 2Wheels you have come to the right place. Thanks for taking the time to stop by.
For further information please visit: www.2wheels.ie
STORE
Cork city based independant retailer. We sell clothes to customers who want something a little different from the high street. We stock brands such as St.Martins and Peoples Market.
GEORGIA IN DUBLIN
Georgia in Dublin', a walker and social cyclist, was not alone in her pursuit of the ideal raincoat in which she would look good and be ready for anything! In response to this, she has designed a range of elegant, high visibility, rainwear. ‘Georgia in Dublin' will be going into production shortly. The products will promote and facilitate an environmentally friendly lifestyle.
VERO MODA
From the very beginning, Vero Moda made a name for itself on the fashion scene by using international top models in marketing campaigns. Over the years, Helena Christensen, Claudia Schiffer,Christy Turlington,Kate Moss, and Giselle Bundchen have been instrumental in creating Vero Modas profile. As a result, Vero Moda has secured a confident position alongside other international brands. Vero Moda is the brand of choice for the fashion conscious, independant young woman who wants to dress smart and pay less.Vero Moda offers quality, affordable, and inspiring clothing for the young woman who wants to look good and have fun with her look in a trustworthy fashion oriented context.
THE RAINSKIRT
Belfast Rain © - The Rain Skirt.
Established 2009 in rainy Belfast by Joanna Karolini.
The Rain Skirt is a 21s century Irish essential. Colour and fashion to battle the forthcoming plentiful supplies of rain. Specially designed for cycling, hiking and festival'ing. The Rain Skirts provide attractive and feminine designs sheltering your moving legs. The Rain Skirts are each uniquely handpicked, hand-cut and hand-made; all from colourful and quality tents. The campsites at festivals set the fashion, this year 2009, we have the Glastonbury, the Oxegen and the Electric Picnic range.
Any questions? Please contact info@therainskirt.coM
Specifications:Functional and light, practical and small. Adjustable 3 sizes in one - quick release - throw-over.Adventures and commissions welcome.
JACK & JONES
Check out www.jackjones.com
B fashion Design
Designed by Bébhinn Flood
Bébhinn completed her Degree in Fashion Design with honours at Limerick Institute of Technology.Since graduating in 2004 she has worked with international Irish designer John Rocha and Joanne Hynes. She found working with these successful designers as an eye opening experience, she realised even at this level it is necessary to pull a few all nights to get the desired end result. She then worked in the mass market side of the trade which gave her a great grounding of the trade both here and abroad, but she felt it took the creative life out of it for her.She decided to bite the bullet and establish her own label ( B fashion Design) in 2007 and uses The Loft Market, Powerscourt Town House Centre, Dublin as a platform for her work where you can buy off the peg or commission a piece to your own specifications. And now she also stocks other boutique around the country.B fashion Design specialises in unique occasion wear with hand beading and embroidery, she sees her work as modern vintage chic using classic craft techniques with modern fabrics which inspire her.
For more information please visit: www.bfashiondesign.com
Heidi Higgins
Heidi Higgins graduated from Fashion at NCAD in 2008 and after spending an exciting formative year working with Louise Kennedy, she proudly introduced her own label to the Irish market in May 2009.Having worked hard to perfect every minute detail before the launch that she had long dreamed of, Heidi made quite an entrance with a sumptuous collection of effortlessly elegant silk dresses.Now, with her full Autumn/Winter 09 collection taking to the rails of several exclusive boutiques across the country - and available at her flagship location in the Loft at Dublin's Powerscourt Townhouse Centre - the Heidi Higgins aesthetic has been flawlessly defined and is fast becoming iconic. Just off the catwalks at some of Ireland's foremost couture showcases, the new season's collection is distinguished by exquisite luxury fabrics in classic shapes - languidly draped dresses and blouses giving lush contrast to dramatically defined, boldly cut coats and jackets. The colour palette is delicious, with refined, muted greys; crisp whites and elegant ebonies giving way to a magical, impossible blue and a sensual, simmering red-orange. The look is timeless - and exudes both femininity and substance. These gorgeous garments enrobe the female figure like a dream, and such poise and simple style are bound by no fashion rules. Whether it's the winning allure of the perfect little black dress, the panache and warmth of the long, ladylike black coat, or the immaculate grace of the sweeping blue jersey dress - every woman will find something to fall in love with in this collection. These are versatile, astute choices that offer boundless return - real favourites that will last a lifetime.
For further information please visit; www.heidihiggins.com
