Leading designer Richard Lewis has been outlining the 10 ‘Fashion Commandments’ he believes Irish women should follow.

The first is that you should let your head look to fashion, but your heart look to style.

Other rules include ‘Always wear the dress – never let it wear you’, ‘The best accessory is a smile’, and ‘Clothes are not life and death’.

But it seems he has a flexible attitude to the regime too – number ten on the list proclaims that ‘Rules are made to be broken!’