Meet the mum and daughter uniting the worlds of fashion and farming: ‘I love that people don't really understand what we're at – there isn't anything else like this'
Fashionistas and farmers Mareta Doyle and Ciara Hunt have combined their two loves to create a unique festival in Kinsale that they hope will kickstart a farm-to-fashion movement
It sounds like it might have something to do with fancy wellies, perhaps, or maybe a glitzy offshoot of the National Ploughing Championships. 'Fashion & Farming' is an unusual combination of words, agree Mareta Doyle and her daughter Ciara Hunt, but there is method to their apparent madness.
The pair arrive at Dublin's Merrion Hotel unintentionally coordinated, each as chic and subtly glam as the other. Doyle has arrived off the train from Cork, while Hunt is fresh off a plane from London. They immediately launch into excited chatter about their accidentally matching black outfits — not a welly in sight — and their new joint venture: a festival that aims to bridge the gap between the worlds of fashion and farming, exploring how they complement each other and sparking conversations about how both industries can be more sustainable going forward.
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