Hello and welcome to the Desert Island Dress podcast with myself, Dee Duffy and herself, Katriona Flynn. This week we are joined by ... 

stylist, creative director and consultant, Aisling Farinella. 

Aisling works across fashion and cultural platforms with her styling featured in prominent Irish and international editorial and advertising campaigns. If you were to explore who Aisling has worked with, it would probably be easier to start with who she hasn’t worked with!  

She acts as an industry mentor for the Design & Crafts Council Ireland, has judged numerous design industry awards, and is a commentator on Irish fashion to publications including The Times Style, i-D and Irish Arts Review,  

Aisling guest lectures at the National College of Art & Design and Limerick School of Art & Design and has been a keynote speaker at design conferences including Offset and The Future.  

When Aisling joined us as a guest for Desert Island Dress, we wanted to explore her own attachments to garments and pieces. In exploring Aisling's work and throughout the interview that passion for creative talent and nurturing that talent was so evident. 

But also, the importance of key relationships and friendships, as well as the themes of motherhood and womanhood, were so wonderfully explored and presented. The significance of provenance was deeply rooted in the context of these stories, from Sicily to Dublin to Connemara - we thoroughly enjoyed being transported to these locations, item by item. 

And if we were being cast away to a Desert Island, we might ask for the archive of Thread Magazine as our luxury item! Thread was a ground-breaking fashion publication co-edited by Aisling, beautifully documenting Irish creative talent at home & abroad.  

Join us, as we head down memory lane with Aisling Farinella, through the medium of clothes and the stories they tell.  

This is the Desert Island Dress podcast.