Brand owner Rae Feather on her fashion brand, the genius of JW Anderson and her new Dublin store Lifestyle brand owner Rae Feather The straw bag that launched Rae Feather's brand into the fashion bibles Jonathan Anderson at the 2024 Costume Institute Benefit for 'Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion' at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 6, 2024 in New York City. Picture: Taylor Hill/Getty Fashion designer Jonathan Anderson walks the runway during the JW Anderson Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2024 fashion show as part of the Milan Men Fashion Week on June 18, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Picture: Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho via Getty India dress from the Rae Feather Leopard Collection Rae Feather's Serena kaftan Rae Feather's Anika dress Northern Ireland has produced its fair share of movers and shakers in the fashion industry, but it’s Mid-Ulster that has produced two of its biggest: JW Anderson and Rae Feather.
Speaking to Weekend from Portugal, Rae – whose eponymous brand was founded in 2013 and became a favourite of designer fashion publications, with its initialled straw handbags becoming the ‘It’ bag – has just celebrated the official opening of the fashion and lifestyle brand’s first Dublin store in The Westbury Mall. Although the fashion designer hails from a prominent Cookstown family known for an eye for details and aesethetics (Rae’s sister, Helen Turkington, is an established interiors designer in Dublin and their parents, Raymond and Hilary Turkington, set.
