CHARLOTTE AND JANE

06/08/2025

Dearest all

It’s been five years now since we closed our beauty full business in bespoke tailor made womenswear. The measurements in place at the time made our business impossible to continue. We loved our 12 years of Charlotte and Jane and all the wonderful people we met over those years in our Kinsale studio and stories we shared together. It was a joy and every day a really creative, satisfying and interactive delight.

Life has changed hugely and it’s so important to embrace change, no to to fear letting things go, and go with the flow and see where it takes us to next.

My flow has lead me into ever deeper connection to nature and into a deep connection to the living waters of all life. My creativity is channeled now into ancient well restoration and projects with the land.

For anyone here who visited our Kinsake studio, in the garden of The Grove is an ancient well close to our old studio with a mighty beech tree beside it as its guardian tree.

Here is a little film about my life now working creatively with the wells and land with other beautiful souls and footage of the magical well and tree by our old studio.

Hoping you are all in your flow too. Life is calling us all to tune ever more deeply into our hearts and nature again and I love hearing from people as to the restored connections to the CroÍ, CroÍ-ation and CroÍ-ator space they are making and courageous changes people are making on their lives.

Love and grá-titude and well wishes to all

Charlotte 🌹

On the 25th July 2025 in Kinsale County Cork , the 76th Triskele Hazel Tree Planting ceremony took place in conjunction with the 4th Annual World Water Festi...

30/08/2023

Quite a thing to experience a fashion show from the audience perspective, rather than back stage!

Wonderful gathering in Levi’s of Ballydehob of Irish textile designers and their clothing creations with very inspired textiles…

Looms and spinning outside the pub on the street and all manner of creativity to delight in with colourful folk in this colourful place…

My baby son thoroughly enjoyed all the colour and magic and gave all there lots of joy.. 💗💗

So inspiring it is to meet local crafts people, with passion for their craft and skill and so important it is to appreciate and support them. Thanks to all who supported us over the twelve years of Charlotte and Jane 💗

04/06/2023

Hi all…it’s been a while! It’s been three years in fact since we closed our beautiful business and last spent time in our C and J studio..feels like another lifetime!

I write for myself, not for Jane here. Much as it saddened me to part with our business which was so full of heart as any of you who came to the studio will remember, it has been a great blessing in my life.

As a mother, working as hard as I did and running the home and looking after my beautiful children as well as all else in life, was a constant juggling act. I tried my best to be my best at work and home for all, but it was exhausting and only when an opportunity for a break was there, did I realise how exhausted I was.

I had a deep intuition that things would not be “returning to normal” and that what presented in 2020 was about so much more. I knew I needed to make life changes.

It felt that the time was right to close our beloved studio and simplify life in every way possible. I began growing vegetables and spending much more time in the beauty and stillness of nature. I began homeschooling my children as all that education of children on line was not something that resonated as being healthy for them. I had never considered it before, but what a wonderful thing it is to spend my days with my children and rich homeschool collectives. In fact it even gave me time to have another child and I have a beautiful new baby son.

Being a mother is a full time job. The system has made it impossible for most to be able to be at home and the most important role of all, that of the homemaker, the nurturer, is given the least respect. The foundations of the home being healthy are the foundations of society being healthy. Nurturing our children, our land, our families, keeping a beautiful home, is sacred work.

It has not empowered women to undermine sacred rolls in society and force us to be everything…

I’m proud to say these days I am a full time mother and home maker.

07/10/2020

Honoring the passing of the great Irish poet Derek Mahon, who died a few days ago. This is his poem “New Space” about our studio which he wrote 12 years ago having opened it for us. This year we closed our business and now we part with Derek, our dear friend who lived at The Grove, beside our studio and who many of you will have met in your comings to us as he kept an interested eye on life and creativity in the Charlotte and Jane studio...the poem captures so beautifully, our design ethos and studio surroundings....So here 12 years after he opened our design business, we close it and he departs...full circle...we all contributed to the arts and design world of Ireland, a world to be treasured, supported, and never let go of.....Derek Mahon leaves us with a legacy of poetry which carries his spirit and wisdom far on beyond the grave. Long live the arts. Farewell Derek Mahon. The closing of chapters and entering of “new space”Charlotte Emily Rose Cargin

14/07/2020

In using up our stock of exquisite silks in an array of gorgeous colours which we have collected over the years, this is a classic Charlotte and Jane outfit which we can make and post to you. Email us at [email protected] and let us know what colours you like and we can send pics of what we have in that range and let you know the measurements we need. Sleeves available....

07/07/2020

For twelve years as we ran our design business, we sourced the finest most beautiful wools and tweeds...we had tweeds woven for us too by Kerry Woolen Mills in our colour and weave designs...we have a glorious selection of them left, including some wonderful Magees tweeds, which we are using to make standard sizing pieces from our collection of styles. Here are some beautiful tweeds that lend themselves well to statement full tweed skirts...all we need is your waist measurement and we can make one for you and post...

04/07/2020

Ok...here’s the next batch of beautiful heir loom samples to find homes for....the dresses we put up a few days ago were nearly all gone within a few hours...there are a few remaining. Those that are sold have this noted beneath. Details of these dresses beneath each image ❤️

02/07/2020

The following samples are available to send out as we part with our business. The sizes and details are below each image. Email us at [email protected] if you would love to be the wearer of any of these dresses and treasure them.

30/06/2020

Our classic wool coats are available in sizes 8-16 in the wools pictured as well as classic black, as we are using up the last of our beautiful wool stock. We only have enough to make three coats in each wool, so first come first served. This will be the last of our coats which are heir loom pieces. As we are not making to measure they are 750euro each. Please e mail us with which size, style and fabric you would like. Our amazing tailors are finishing up and will make them within a month for you and we will post. Each coat has a tailored bodice, nipped in darted waist and full swing with long box pleat at the back. Pure Irish wool. Stunning designs and classic Charlotte and Jane. [email protected]

08/06/2020

All set up at Janes cottage in Kilbrittain in gorgeous West Cork, to meet people by appointment to re home all our remaining Charlotte and Jane design creations.....email us for an appointment. Lots of beauties packaged and ready to go to their new homes...quite a day! We are enjoying meeting people here and sending our original C and J creations out into the world...❤️

04/06/2020

We will be meeting people by appointment at Janes gorgeous cottage in Kilbrittain on Mondays and Tuesdays to re home all of our beautiful dresses. If you would like to buy sample dresses, we have a huge range in sizes 8-18. Please email us to book a day and time [email protected] If you can’t travel to us, then have a look at our website and let us know via email your favorite styles and your measurements and we can let you know what we have to suit for you to choose from ❤️ www.charlotteandjane.com

29/05/2020

Thankyou all so much for the overwhelming messages of love, support and gratitude...we are so grateful and so touched. What a beautiful note to finish on! Here are just some of the pictures in the press of our designs and story from 2009-2020. We feel it is the right time for us to begin new chapters. We hope that the legacy we leave will be to celebrate yourself as you are, exactly as you are, wear beautiful joyful colours, support local businesses and crafts that hold heart space in communities and promote real connections, keep craft alive, valued and celebrated, move away from false fashion trends and seasonal fads that are generated by an industry that is completely environmentally unsustainable, exploitive of people, and devastating of true values, buy less and buy conscientiously and above all, celebrate life! We move on to different projects...Jane will continue teaching art at third level and what an inspiring art teacher she is and that is how we met 19 years ago when she was mine! She’s also going back to college to study ceramics! I am moving towards creating on the land and cultural gathering organizing...never be afraid of change! Life is short...In celebration of the closing of this wonderful chapter of which you’ve all been a part and of the rich journey and tapestry of life...enjoy this selection of images of C & J 2009-2020. Charlotte Emily Rose CarginJane Jane Skovgaard