designs on a writing career
INTERVIEW: The well-known fashion designer Mariad Whisker is now making a career as a writer, she tells Deirdre McQuillan
IN A CURIOUS IMPULSE, the new anthology of Irish writing, a poignant short story called Tangled Up in Blue takes its title from the famous Bob Dylan song of love and loss, first recorded in 1975. The author is none other than Mariad Whisker, better known as one of the most successful stars of Irish fashion, whose career took a back seat to that of her former husband, the artist Charlie Whisker, when the couple emigrated from Ireland to Los Angeles in 1994. Read more
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