About
Úna Burke began her career in 1998 at Limerick School of Art and Design, completing a four year degree in Fashion Design. She then went on to work with several fashion houses around Ireland, before moving to London in 2006 where she began a Masters Degree in Fashion Artefact at the prestigious Cordwainers College in London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Her graduate collection won the 2009 LCF MA Design Award for Best Static Collection and she went on to win several more national and international Fashion, Art and Craft prizes, including a number of DCCI Future Maker Awards, The Golden Egg 2011 'Irish Fashion Designer of the Year' and nomination for the WGSN Global Fashion Awards in 2012. In 2019 she won an LIT Alumni Award for her contribution to culture and in 2020 and 2021 she won the Fashion and Accessories categories of the Irish Country Magazine "Irish Made Awards".
