About Davina Lynch

· AWARDS:

Winner - Best Hat Galway Races 2017
Winner - Irish Fashion Innovation Awards Millinery Designer of the Year 2017
Winner - Champion Hat, Punchastown Races September 2016
Winner - River Island/Accessories Four Competition – Hat Design produced and sold in River Island Stores.·
Second Prize - Peter Jones Ascot Competition – Hat sold in Peter Jones store, Slone Square.·
Shortlisted - Felt Hat Competition in association with Worshipful Company of Feltmakers of London.·
Semi-Finalist – Hat Designer of Year Competition in association with The Hat Magazine London/Paris 2007 & 2012.·
Finalist Cavan Business Awards 2015

Member of Council of Irish Fashion Designers and Craft & Design Council of Ireland

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Ian Bennett – Workroom and Shop assistant – Oxo Tower, London.·
Noel Stewart – Working in studio helping to make hats for London Fashion Week and Private Clients including Alison Goldfrapp – Chelsea London·
Clements Ribeiro – Production assistant for two seasons London Fashion Week.
Caroline Mitchel Knitwear - Machine Knitting garments in Caroline’s Studio – Limerick, Ireland.
Topshop Oxford Circus – Top Level Sales Advisor/Supervisor Accessories Department.

COLLABORATIONS:

Collaboration Cadburys Ireland – Designing and creating a Hat/Headpiece based on the Cadbury Bubbly Bar for a Sting/Ad for TV3’s Xpose.·

Collaboration Pfizer/Bloom In The Park – Designing and creating 4 Hats/Headpieces for Pfizer, sponcers of Bloom In The Park·
Collaboration with River Island and Accessories 4
Collaboration with Peter Jones, Slone Square, London and Ascot
Theatrical Millinery – The Gainsborough Hat.·

EDUCATION:

Distinction in Millinery Design – Kensington and Chelsea College – Chelsea London·
Millinery Design – Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design – London·

PRESS:

Front page The Sunday Times, Image Magazine, The Hat Magazine, The Evening Herald, U Magazine, Prudence Magazine, The Sun, The Mirror, The Irish Times, The Angelo Celt, The Sunday Independent, The Sunday Business Post, Social and Personal Magazine .·
Interviews on TV3 Xpose, Dave Fanning RTE Radio 1, Ryan Tuberty RTE Radio 1, Bobby Kerr Newstalk.·
Business Casestudy for National Women’s Enterprise Day 2013.·

TEACHING MILLINERY - CLASSES:

DAVINA LYNCH