Magee 1866 Connects Its Family Archive with AW26 at Ireland Fashion Week

Rosy Temple, CEO of Magee Clothing, described a selection that included her grandmother’s Jack Clark two-piece suit from the 1960s and her father’s going-away jacket from the 1980s. Those personal garments appeared in an account of the event alongside current designs under Charlotte Temple’s creative direction.

Heritage Shown Through Clothing Temple credited Ashley McDonnell with leading Ireland Fashion Week and Anne O’Shea with styling. The presentation’s organizing idea was the continuity between Magee’s mill, its Donegal identity and the design of its finished clothing. The archive offers a concrete way to explain that heritage.

Instead of treating the company’s past solely as a founding date, the selection identifies garments worn by different generations and puts them in conversation with the current range. That gives the brand a story anchored in individual pieces and their use over time.

Magee’s own company history identifies Rosy and Charlotte Temple among the family members leading the business and describes its continuing connection to textiles designed and woven in County Donegal. The Fashion Week appearance brings those elements together in a public-facing collection…