On his moodboard, an image of a woman looking out of a plane window was pinned next to a portrait of the Brontë sisters

Several news sites focus on Max Mara's 'Brontë drama' at the Milan Fashion Week. From The Guardian:

Ian Griffiths, the British creative director of Max Mara, starts with what real women wear and builds fashion out from there, rather than the other way around. This season, he wanted to do big skirts.

“So I thought: what story do I attach to this, to give it drama? We all have our dramas going on inside, so our clothes should, too.” A weekend in Yorkshire led him to the Brontë heroines Catherine Earnshaw and Jane Eyre, and a collection of rustling greatcoats, hardy layers with bellow pockets, chunky boots, stiff tweeds and grand velvets.

There was nothing Victorian about the clothes on the catwalk. “I’m not doing costume drama,” Griffiths said backstage. On his moodboard, an image of a woman looking out of a plane window was pinned next to a portrait of the Brontë sisters, “because I never forget that the woman I’m designing for is more likely to be getting on a plane to New York or marching through the corridors of power than marching across the moors. She’s probably a corporate lawyer.” (Jess Cartner-Morley)

Also in Vogue:

“I was trying to balance between Jane Eyre and her demure self control and Catherine Earnshaw and her untrammeled wild passion in order to find a woman who’s somewhere in between controlling these two polar emotions.” This was Ian Griffiths’s pre-show preface to a Max Mara collection that sought to sublimate the contrasting romantic essences of the Brontë sisters’s famous protagonists: heroine chic. (Luke Leitch)

And in L'Officiel:

Max Mara's newest collection is for the woman in touch with her inner self and for the woman who dreams through enmeshing herself in literature, according to Creative Director Ian Griffiths. "We are living in a particular moment, there is a threatening world that we are dealing with and I believe that clothes help you to face it better. More generally, an elegant look makes you feel good. This morning, for example, I wore my three-piece suit and I was happy to start the day," he wrote in show notes.

For the Fall/Winter 2025 collection, he has a very clear idea of the type of woman he is dressing: she who is "refined, strong, cultured, intelligent, capable of living even her most emotional side, a woman who reads," show notes read for the show presented during Milan Fashion Week.

Specifically, he is passionate about two great classics of English literature, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights by Charlotte and Emily Brontë, respectively, where the protagonists are indomitable heroines. To outline the look of the season, Griffiths also looks at the portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron, great-aunt of Virginia Woolf, a rare female photographer of the Victorian era who specialized in dreamy female portraits. (Cristina Manfredi)

Onto different things as Connacht Tribune features Galway poet Rita Ann Higgins.

That all changed in 1977 when she got tuberculosis and was confined to Merlin Park Hospital.

“I found the days long and miserable. One day I had a visit from friends, Anne and Mark Kennedy, and they brought up a skinny little book called Animal Farm. I loved it, I loved the revolution in it. I went on to read Wuthering Heights. I could see Catherine and Heathcliff on the moors.”