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For the opening look of his highly anticipated debut collection at Dior in June this year, creative director Jonathan Anderson designed a bar jacket made from a speckled, forest-green Donegal tweed. In an instant, an Irish heritage textile was back on the fashion map.
The woollen cloth, characterised by its neps or burrs – small flecks of fibre spun into the yarn – was produced by…

