By Joanna Kiernan
Sunday Apr 24 2011
'My clothes are all kind of classical pieces. I'm not into fads and never have been," Martina Fox tells me as we rummage through her wardrobe.
"Even when I was in my 20s I was never into wearing something just because that's what was deemed to be fashionable. I wear what I'm comfortable in and what I like."
It's an ability that many of us envy -- to truly know which trends suit us and which we should ignore. It's an ability which I'm sure Martina has cultivated from her years as a model, throughout her marriage to nightclub boss Robbie Fox and while at work, treading the boards night after night in the Bridge Bar & Grill.
Skinny jeans are many people's bete noir
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The fantastic Mrs Fox is thankfully a little shrewder when it comes to personal style. "I do tend to go for classical pieces purely and simply because they can carry me from work to social life or from casual to more dressy occasions and they last," she adds, "I have some pieces in my wardrobe that are there years and years because they're classical shapes and they're well cut. I am big into the fabric that's in my clothes. I like nice soft fabrics and tailoring."
So what would Martina say is her most hardworking item of clothing?
"It has to be the black dress. I mean everybody should have a black dress in their wardrobe; it takes you anywhere and everywhere. Also my black leather skinnies
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"I do dress up going into work
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"They are a pair of flat Prada over the knee boots," Martina tells me
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Martina's love of dresses for both their practicality and elegance is evident.
"I love dresses purely and simply because they're so easy. You put one item of clothing on and bang you're done," she muses, "I love Dina Bar-el and Nicole Miller dresses. My purple Nicole Miller dress I really love
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Being very much a boutique babe, Martina sourced as much as 90 per cent of her wardrobe in Diffusion, Clontarf. "I'm not a huge spender on clothes, but when I do go to buy something, I buy something that's going to last. Diffusion just make it very simple for me. I have been going there for years and at this stage, they know what I like and I can go out and they'll say: 'OK we've got, this
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"Obviously, like everybody else in this country now, I have to watch the pennies, so I am quite good. Unless I really like something I won't buy it
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- Joanna Kiernan
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