page_title: Katie Larmour
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context_page_description: Katie Larmour is a Northern Irish designer, TV presenter, curator and media personality.
  She graduated from the University of Ulster with a degree in Fine & Applied Art in 2006 specialising in ceramics.
  After her studies she continued her passion for art presenting arts and culture programs for Northern Visions Television, a local community station based in Belfast. In 2013 Larmour collaborated with high end Irish womenswear designer and fellow university student Riona Treacy creating a joint one off swimwear collection together.
  Larmour continued into textiles launching a luxury Irish Linen brand offering artisan home accessories along with vintage and antique finds in 2014.
  She currently has a design studio based in Belfast.
  She showcased with the British European Design Group in 2015 as part of New York Design Week. Following on from this she collaborated with Heals of London in 2016 on an Irish Linen homewares range.
  Her sustainability line of re-purposed vintage scarf cushions was carried by Dublin's Brown Thomas store for both 2018's summer and winter seasons, are available at Harrods in London, as well as being exhibited in Design Miami.
context_section_description: Katie Larmour (born 1985 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish designer, TV presenter, curator and media personality.
  She graduated from the University of Ulster with a degree in Fine & Applied Art in 2006 specialising in ceramics. 
  After her studies she continued her passion for art presenting arts and culture programs for Northern Visions Television (NvTv), a local community station based in Belfast. In 2013 Larmour collaborated with high end Irish womenswear designer and fellow university student Riona Treacy creating a joint one off swimwear collection together.
  Larmour continued into textiles launching a luxury Irish Linen brand offering artisan home accessories along with vintage and antique finds in 2014.
  She currently has a design studio based in Belfast.
  She showcased with the British European Design Group in 2015 as part of New York Design Week. Following on from this she collaborated with Heals of London in 2016 on an Irish Linen homewares range.
  Her sustainability line of re-purposed vintage scarf cushions was carried by Dublin's Brown Thomas store for both 2018's summer and winter seasons, are available at Harrods in London, as well as being exhibited in Design Miami.
  Katie and her work often feature in publications such as The Irish Times and the Financial Times How to Spend it section. Larmour was at the forefront of Northern Ireland's inaugural Linen Biennale in 2018 as well as the launch of Belfast's newly developed Linen Quarter Business Improvement District (BID) in 2019.
  Over the years Katie has also appeared in various programs on UTV, Setanta, and RTE as a part-time or contributing presenter as well as hosting public events including the annual Chinese New Year Celebrations and announcing Queen Elizabeth II's arrival at Stormont Parliament Buildings at her Diamond Jubilee garden party celebrations in 2012. Between 2008-2015 Katie has been the official ‘face of’, stage host and fashion TV presenter for Belfast Fashion Week.
  Larmour was the face of the official 'George Best Foundation', is an advocate for peace in Northern Ireland as an ambassador and spokesperson for Unite Against Hate Campaign run in conjunction with the Police Service in Northern Ireland (PSNI) since 2010, and has been the patron of Northern Ireland's only registered breast cancer charity Pretty 'n' Pink since 2009, often fronting awareness campaigns.
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