Island Diary

Uwe van Afferden, Herausgeber der “Heritage Post” trägt eine Inis Meáin Fliege auf der Bread & Butter, Berlin im Januar 2014. Uwe is the Editor of “The Heritage Post” a German Magazine “Für Herrenkultur”. He loved our knitted Bow Ties at Bread & Butter in January 2014. read more

Mitsuru Miyamoto, Agent for Japan, caught an Air France commuter approprietly named “Inis Meáin” from Paris to Florence/Pitti Uomo on Wednesday 8/1/14. Bravo Air France, especially for using the correct spelling for l’isle du milieu! read more

Michal ag coinneáil an liathróid san aer ag Pitti. Michal Sestak (US agent) coordinading & juggling with oranges at Pitti Uomo. It wasn’t all fun and games — we had a great week in Florence. One of the busiest ever! read more

Travelling to winter shows, not to mention shipping Spring/Summer merchandise, is pretty challenging these days with 20m waves. ‘Wonder would Air France ever lend us that commuter for a couple of weeks until this weather clears up! read more

Our US agent Michal Sestak, Senior Vice President BARNEYS NY Menswear, Tom Kalendarian & Tarlach de Blacam, pictured on Saturday October 26th during BARNEY’S Artisan Day when Artisan Producers from around the world attended in BARNEYS Madison Avenue to meet customers and to take special orders. The newly refurbished ground floor is a really beautiful... read more

Its always nice to be featured in one of our favourite magazines. The latest issue of Monocle (No. 68, November 2013) has a great fashion briefing — Knits, hats gloves, backpacks everything you need for an arctic winter, plus retailers and labels to watch. Lovely to see our sweaters among the selection. read more

The Inis Méain Knitting Company were recently invited to make a presentation at the Irish Knitwear & Heritage Seminar and the launch of “Harris Tweed & Aran Sweater” by Yoshimi Hasegawa. The event took place at the Embassy of Ireland in Tokyo, hosted by the Ambassador John Neary. We had the opportunity to present an... read more

The flora of Inis Meáin is always an inspiration when we prepare the Spring Collection. This year we used some of Sarah Walker’s paintings of fields of Montbretia, Meadowsweet and various Orchids as a colour theme for the collection. We showed some of Sarah’s paintings at the stand and they attracted a lot of attention.... read more

One of our customers stopped to send us a quick picture from Sunny New York city this week of the Bergdorf Goodman shop window on Fifth Avenue. We thought that taking your time to enjoy the sun and relax, even in the midst of the busy pedestrians, was a very Inis Meáin thing to do!... read more

Following the successful shows in Firenze and Berlin, this week finds us in Tokyo where Miyamoto-san has arranged an exquisite presentation as we meet with our Japanese customers. We look forward to enjoying our days of meetings but also the local culinary delights in the evening. read more