Pat Crowley presents her autumn/winter collection 1992 and talks about her American clients.
Pat Crowley was an Aer Lingus hostess before training as a designer with Irene Gilbert. She launched her knitwear business in 1968 and became one of Ireland’s most successful couture designers. In this TV clip from ‘Head to Toe’, she presents her autumn/winter collection 1992 and is chauffeured from Dublin Airport to her boutique in Molesworth Place by presenter Pat O’Mahony.
Pat Crowley has just returned from one of her many business trips to New York, where she has been planning the winter wardrobes of her rich American clients. Many of them are busy career women who like her to put outfits together for them. Her agent Maxine Kahn says the Americans love Pat because they live in an anonymous culture, but Pat takes a personal interest in them. Much of Pat’s work involves adjusting clothes to fit the figures of her clients in the workshop above her boutique because her clients come in all shapes and sizes and don’t necessarily fit into off the peg clothes.
Pat Crowley died in December 2013.
| Title: | Pat Crowley Couture |
| Clip Duration: | 00:04:40 |
| Material Type: | Video |
| Clip Title: | Couture Wardrobes for Rich Career Women |
| Series Title: | Head to Toe |
| Information: | 'Head to Toe' was a weekly lifestyle programme which focused on clothes and fashion. 'Head to Toe' ran for 10 series between 1988 and 1997. The first show was aired on 21 October 1988 and was presented by Frances Duff, Mary O'Sullivan and Marty Whelan. Mary O'Sullivan described the show as "a magazine mix of everything to do with clothes, people, the rag trade in general, personalities, swap shops, the nostalgia scene, people's private collections, country shopping and dressing and budgets and even problems". (RTE Guide, 14 October 1988, p.6) |
| Local Keywords: | Fashion, Fashion designers, Couture, Couture designers, Clothing industry, Rag trade, Knitwear, Tailoring, Made to measure clothes, Pat Crowley, Aer Lingus, Irene Gilbert, Head to Toe, Pat O'Mahony, Maxine Kahn, Career women |
| Coverage: | Ireland |
| Genre: | Factual |
| Topic: | Lifestyle and Consumerism |
| Provider: | RTÉ |
| Contributor(s): | Pat O’Mahony (Presenter) |
| Publisher: | RTÉ |
| First Broadcast Channel: | RTÉ One |
| Production Year: | 1992 |
| Country of Production: | Ireland |
| Original Identifier: | 01D00372 |
| IPR Restrictions: | Rights Reserved - Free Access |
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| Item Type: | part/extract |
| Colour: | Colour |
| Sound: | Mono |
| Aspect Ratio: | 4:3 |
| Language: | English (eng) |
| Original Language: | English (eng) |
