It’s the day after Saint Patrick’s Day when Róisín Pierce dials in for her call with Marie Claire. The Irish designer spent the holiday hiking Dublin's Wicklow Mountains with her mother Angie, whom she lovingly refers to by her first name. "We saw really small lambs, so that was quite nice," Pierce says with a laugh.
The artist behind her self-titled brand is tuning in from the crowded kitchen table of her Dublin family home. Pierce, framed by bolts of frothy white fabric and mannequins wearing her clothing samples, explains that the room doubles as her workspace. “It's quite a strange thing to do because in your personal time—if you even have that—you can't switch off because you see all the work you could be doing. [My pieces] live here, and I see them every day," says the designer, a Chanel 2019 Métiers d’Art prizewinner and a 2022 LVMH Prize finalist who received both honors before debuting her self-titled brand at Paris Fashion Week in March 2023.
