Don O'Neill (fashion designer)

Don O'Neill (born 1966) is an Irish fashion designer.

He was born in the seaside village of Ballyheigue, County Kerry, Ireland.

Initially training as a chef, O’Neill was able to study to be a fashion designer, his true passion, after winning a full tuition scholarship to the Barbara Bourke College of Fashion Design.

[1] After traveling the world and working for famous designers and fashion houses such as Christian Lacroix, he arrived in New York, where he spent ten years working with evening-wear designer Carmen Marc Valvo and three years as head of the Badgley Mischka diffusion label.

He has dressed Carrie Underwood[4] at the 2013 Grammys and Oprah Winfrey[5] at the 2012 Oscars.