Rising Star Designs opened in February 2014 and quickly set ourselves apart from the competition in providing unique costumes to suit a dancers style and personality.

We strive to provide four key points in Irish dance costume manufacture. Original Designs, Top Quality Work, Perfect fit & great Customer Care.  With these points we hope to achieve the perfect stress free exciting experience ordering your new costume should be.  We do not believe in copying other dancers costumes but more creating something very much with the dancer in mind plus the valued experience of their dance teacher.

We are here to offer advice and bring our wealth of experience to every order no matter how advanced a dancer may be.

Keith’s experience in costume design spans 20 years working for three of the most well known Irish Dance manufacturers in the world.

From an early age he has had a love for art and design and having studied graphic design in Dublin, Ireland he graduated and started a career in print design. Due to the economic downturn he was made redundant from his first design position and answered an advert looking for a designer by one of the key founders in Irish Dance Costumes, Siopa Rince Dublin. Having no background in Irish Dancing did not deter him from relishing the opportunity to work in such a niche market creating for beginner and champion dancers all over the world. 

“I would not be where I am today without my years at Siopa Rince”, Keith looks back fondly.

An opportunity to join a new company, Elevation Design led Keith to move to Belfast, Northern Ireland. “I loved Jackie’s fresh outlook into Costume Design. Nothing was ever too different nor did they ever dampen my creativity.  They were a pleasure to work for.”

As with every industry one wants to climb the ladder and work for the best and Eire Designs was just that at the time. 

Then there becomes a point where you want to do things by yourself and use the knowledge you have built up over the years to feed your own creative hunger.”

And thats when Rising Star Designs was born.  We are not here to do something different, but perhaps just better. Customer Care is paramount, with original design work, top quality workmanship all coming under this one key point, to make our customers happy.