Have a look at some of our favourites; Slapper Converted, Disco Biscuit, Bluey, Trout Pout, Pillar Box Red and Jaffa. How fab are these?

Your nail polish colour is the perfect finishing touch to apply to your look. Fortunately for us ladies, your nail varnish can be changed very easily and it will completely revamp your look. So why not add a little colour to your life and pop into any of our Fran & Jane boutiques and ask for Butter London Lacquers!

Peplum Power!!

The peplum style is the must have silhouette for this season – slimming your waistline and accentuating those womanly curves! What more could any girl want?!

Check out Fran & Jane’s Ascot 1 Dress available in two colours; ivory and cobalt blue.

Take inspiration from us and get frilled up!!

Embrace Statement Prints

It is all about PRINT! Lavish, lush and quirky prints ranging from vegetable prints showcased by Dolce & Gabanna, Prada’s car print, to scarf, tribal and floral, prints are everywhere this season. The patterns are vibrant and add a strong statement to your look.

These colourful patterns and prints are so versatile, you can pair up with skinny jeans, linen trousers, and shorts creating various different looks ensuring you look absolutely fabulous this summer!

Have a look at a selection of Fran & Jane’s Wilson, Kelby and Tatler styles arriving later this month.

Pretty Sweet

Candy colours of soft pink and powdery blues are dominating the Spring / Summer catwalks this year. This sweet sophisticated colour palette for Spring / Summer has everyone dipping into the craze from Philip Lim to Jonathan Saunders.

Fran & Jane have perfected pastel pieces that will bring you to any occasion.

Bold & Beautiful

Encapsulating vibrant colours were a winning look on the catwalks again this Spring / Summer.

Our favourite here at Fran & Jane is coral. What better way to make a loud fashion statement!

Fran & Jane have created a collection bursting with soft feminine lace, appliqué florals, vibrant prints and texture, adorned with soft hues and brilliant bold colour pops.

This collection is available in Fran & Jane nationwide.

View Fran & Jane Spring / Summer 2012 Collection >>

 

Fran and Jane

The Fran & Jane Debs collection 2011 is young, sassy and vibrant with cocktail numbers, figure hugging dresses and maxi numbers made of slinky jersey fabric, dyed in shades of purple, blue, green, yellow, red, pink and white with plunging neck lines and low backs. The Orange Jersey Halter Maxi Dress with Beading Detail priced at €279.00 being another popular number.

 According to Jane Baker, the joint owner of the Fran and Jane label: “The debs has now become a red carpet event where the style is straight out of ‘Hello!’ magazine in terms of glamour. There is such a demand for sophisticated dresses, even at this age.”

 The style stakes are higher than ever this Debs season and the debutants are certainly taking their dresses for the big night very seriously! To celebrate the Debs, Fran and Jane are ensuring the world knows that they are best in class with quirky, eye catching, window displays showing off their unique offering. Staff have been studying up on all the latest trends and creating looks in store to ensure that they can provide the crucial advice and expertise needed by the debutants to achieve the perfect look from Fran and Jane for their special night.

Should you need any more information on any of the above please don’t hesitate to contact Rachel Doyle at Rachel@franandjane.ie

This nomination brings us to end of possibly the most exciting and challenging year for the brand since its establishment in 1974. At the helm of a turbulent retail year, Fran and Laura have continued to successfully adapt and develop the brand to meet the needs of a changing marketplace. The experience and astute commercial awareness of Fran combined with daughter Laura’s ambition for the business has seen it become established as an international retailer in 2010. This was achieved by expanding the brands international wholesale accounts, the opening of our first London boutique and online growth. The move towards e-tailing has been a conscious and strategic investment for Fran and Jane aimed at further opening up the brand to an international marketplace, while also building relationships with existing customers by offering improved services such as ‘shopping on the go’ via their Fran and Jane iPhone/iTouch application.

Already established as one of Ireland’s most prestigious titles, the annual Tatler businesswomen of the year awards 2010 will be held on  November 19th at the Four Seasons Hotel Dublin. We here at Fran and Jane HQ have all fingers and toes crossed for Fran and Laura and wish them the best of luck at this year’s ceremony!!!!

Lots of Love,

 The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx

Casual and evening coats, chunky knits, jersey layres and party dresses – we have left no stone unturned and have reduced almost everything in our AW collection by 25%. So if like us you have noticed the cold weather creeping in over the past week, now is the best time to overhaul your winter wardrobe without having to spend an arm and a leg! Click on our ‘Locations’ tab to find your nearest Fran and Jane store and get in there quick to bag yourself a bargain!!

Lots of Love,

The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx

Fran and Jane Action Breast Cancer Mittens

Action Breast Cancer has also partnered with Centra stores around the country in selling pairs of fabulous bright pink mittens for €5 and available for both adults and children. We here at Fran and Jane fully support this worthwhile endeavour and have all picked up a pair of these mittens to keep us warm and toasty throughout the winter months!!!

Lots of Love,

The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx

Wood 4 €149

Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, Burberry and Marni have all taken up the shearling trend with gusto and we here at Fran and Jane are right there with them putting our own stamp on things creating styles that we know our loyal shoppers will love. We have created three shearling styles for our AW collection cropped, cape and full length so whatever your style we have something to suit everyone! Paired with skinny jeans and over the knee boots, our caped version is more ski resort chic than rocker chick. Throw our cropped style on with wide leg trousers for a polished aviator feel or with a short pleated skirt for an haute twist on the collegiate look. As a nod to 70’s cool wrap up in our toasty full length version and add your staple winter boots for a fashion forward way to battle the elements.

Wood 6 €149

Though the price tags for many of the high end shearling pieces may cause you to break out into a sweat this September ours may surprise you – either way we’d argue that these furry finds are worth the investment. We leave you with one piece of advice, at the end of the season remember to take your shearling jacket to the dry cleaners before packing it away as this trend is set to stick around again next year!

Lots of Love,

The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx

Laura Whitmore & Alistiar Guy

The boutique looked simply gorgeous on the night covered in pink and white Fran and Jane balloons and rails filled with our beautiful new AW10 collection. Guests arrived in typical Fran and Jane fashion up a pink carpet with some very familiar faces in the UK and Ireland attending, such as MTV’s Laura Whitmore and noted Vogue fashion and reportage photographer Alistair Guy (see blog post link below). Guests sipped on champagne to celebrate the arrival of this established Irish retail brand in to the UK market. Atmosphere was created on the night by UK solo jazz guitarist Jo Caleb who kept guests in good spirits as they nibbled on delicious canapés. The evening included a showcasing of our AW collection by some gorgeous M and P model management models and went down a storm with UK shoppers and fashion press.

Guests were sent home with juicy Fran and Jane goodie bags containing Fran and Jane vouchers and quirky lollipops, in addition to treats from some of Fran and Jane’s new neighbours on the Kings Road such as Molton Brown and The Body Shop and also a membership gift voucher for exclusive private members club Morton’s of Berkley Square.

Celebrations continued after the in store launch in Morton’s of Berkley Square where Fran and Jane invited their guests to join them for an after party ,where an amazing night was had by all!

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Lots of Love,

The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx

We here at Fran and Jane were so proud to have the Galway native showcase our AW 2010/11 collection to the world by wearing our pieces during her various appearances on the show. Going from sophisticated glamour in our Shona 2 white shift dress with black stone embellishment, to feminine and pretty in our bright fuchsia collared knit dress, Grainne did not disappoint each morning looking a million dollars!

Following her show stopping appearance on the show, ITV1’s Daybreak announced on July 20^th 2010 that Grainne will become part of ITV’s ongoing strategy to renew and refresh its programming by joining their new team as Features Editor.

Our shoppers can get their hands on the Fran and Jane pieces seen on Grainne mid –August as our beautiful AW 2010/11 collection arrives in stores. The new collection is STUNNING and we simply cannot wait to share it with our shoppers.

Lots of Love,

The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx

The fashion industry’s answer to ‘The Apprentice’, the show has been a major hit to date with Irish viewers, largely due to its famous judges Caprice, Ian Galvin and Peter O’Brien. Given their vast experience and influence within the fashion industry, the opinions of these well known judges are no doubt crucially important to the hopeful contestants as they compete for a senior creative role at Aurora Fashion’s international offices and the chance to co-create the next ByCaprice fashion line.

Episode 3 was explosive and saw contestants for the first time working individually and competing against one another.  The task assigned by mentor Angela Woods was to create an advertorial for Lipton Tea, by styling a look using pieces from Fran and Jane and inspired by the colour palette of one of seven different Lipton tea variants, from Pink Citrus to Peppermint Green.

The contestants spent a day at Fran and Jane HQ in Fashion City trawling through rail after rail of stock, stacks of shoes and piles of accessories. Spying on the contestants as they worked and having seen the various items which they pulled out on the day, we were all so intrigued to see the final looks on this week’s show and what they came up with was no less than incredible! Each contestant styled a look completely unique of the next, with every look getting quirkier and more and more inspired!

Miss Ireland's Wearing Fran and Jane for a Style Wars Shoot

This winner from this week’s episode was David Green who created a sensational look inspired by Lipton Tea’s Forest Fruits flavour. David styled his Fran and Jane outfit using a mix of purples including our Carli 10 dress, Cutie shoe boots and Mars 9 coat. Although all looks styled were great David was the outright winner for this week’s task and we here at Fran and Jane absolutely LOVED what he created! Although we are disappointed that our episode has come and gone we cannot wait for next week’s episode to see what challenge faces the remaining contestants!

Lots of Love, 

The Fran and Jane Team xxXXxx