Annmarie O’Connor is a fashion editor, award-winning stylist and bestselling author.
Having worked in the fashion industry for over twelve years, she is known for a considerable body of work with editorial and styling credits including the Irish Examiner, The Sunday Times Style, ELLE, Irish Tatler, The Gloss, Louis Vuitton City Guides series, London Fashion Week, The Voice of Ireland, Harvey Nichols, Kildare Village and Brown Thomas.
Annmarie is a regular radio, podcast and television contributor, event MC and corporate guest speaker. With a self-styled brand of ‘wardrobe wellness’, her mission is to take the stress out of getting dressed by helping others adopt a more mindful relationship with fashion. To this end, she designs and delivers workshops and seminars for companies that combine staff needs and business goals to improve confidence and competence while working from home.
Her books The Happy Closet and The Happy Medium explore how considered choices can increase our sense of satisfaction both sartorially and personally; a topic which she also explores in her TEDx talk ‘Enough is Enough: Deciding to Be Satisfied’.
She has been featured by Image.ie as one of Ireland’s 100 Most Inspiring Women and in Irish Tatler Business on Ireland’s Power List: 1,000 Women of Influence (2013, 2014, 2015); she has also won several industry accolades: 2016 Cork Fashion Week Stylish Entrepreneur; 2015 Kerry Fashion Week Best Irish Fashion Stylist; and 2015 Kerry Fashion Week Irish Fashion Ambassador.