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Born and brought up in Ireland and now living in London, Úna Burke graduated with a BA in Fashion Design from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2003. She then went on to work with several fashion companies including Philip Treacy, Helen Cody, Chesneau Leathers, Burberry and Smythson. Úna completed an MA in Fashion Artefact at the Cordwainers department of London College of Fashion in 2009. Here she was awarded a distinction and won the 'Off Catwalk Award for Design'. She is now developing ranges of leather accessories and body pieces for stores in London and San Francisco. Úna also plans to continue to make exhibition pieces in the future and collaborate with other designers to make pieces for their catwalk shows.


Awards, Achievements and Exhibitions to date...

 Shortlisted for the 'Golden Fleece Award 2010', Ireland

 Featured in 'Future Map 2009', held at 20 Hoxton Square Projects, London, Nov 24th '09 - Dec 23rd '09

 Selected for the ‘Generation’ exhibition at the National Craft Gallery, in Kilkenny, Ireland, Nov’09 - Jan‘10

 Chosen as a finalist in the IDI Awards (Institute of Designers in Ireland), October 2009

 Work to feature in a book called ‘Never Leave the house Naked and 50 other Ridiculous Fashion Rules’, written by Anneloes van Gaalen, Oct 2009

 Invited to have portfolio displayed in the Vogue Talents dedicated area at Milan FashionWeek, Sept 2009

 Collection featured in Vogue Italia, The Talents Issue, Sept 2009

 Work exhibited on the YKK stand at Munich Fabric Start, Sept 1st, 2nd and 3rd 2009.

 Collection featured in the Education supplement of ‘The Guardian’ newspaper,July 14th 2009

 Finalist in the Accessories category of the International Fashion Competition,‘ITS #EIGHT’, July 2009

 Winner of the Crafts Council of Ireland ‘Future Maker - Student Award’, July2009

 Work exhibited at the ‘National Crafts Gallery’ in Kilkenny, Ireland, July 2009

 Collection featured in Summer 2009 issue of ‘Above Magazine’, June 2009

 MA Collection exhibited at the “Lulu Guinness 20th Anniversary Party”, at theV&A, June 2009

 Collection Featured in two fashion shoots published in ‘Pigeons and Peacocks’Magazine, June 2009

 Portfolio presented at the British Fashion Council Portfolio Awards, winning2nd place for LCF, April 2009

 Work shown at “LCF at Carnaby”, curated by Prof Dai Rees, exhibition atBroadwick Street, March 2009

 Collection exhibited at “MA_STERS” exhibition at The Mall Galleries, curatedby Prof Dai Rees, Feb 2009

 Winner of London College of Fashion ‘Off-Catwalk Award for Design’,January 2009 Finalist in the Persil Fashion Awards, March 2003

 Winner of the Eilis Kilgallen Award for most promising artist under the age of 25, Aug 2003

 Created and set up a Fashion/Sculptural display for ‘Schoëller’ Austrian YarnCompany at Pitti Filatti, Feb 2003

CITY: 
London


COUNTRY: 
United Kingdom


ART SCHOOL: 
London College of Fashion


EMPLOYMENT: 
Business owner


PRICE RANGE: 
High end


PRODUCTION LOCATION: 
United Kingdom


USE OF ORGANIC/ SUSTAINABLE FABRICS: 
Yes


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