Fifty years ago, Sean Barron set up a modest wholesale clothes business called Flairline. Barron was 33, and along with his wife Michaelina, he developed a nose for identifying accessible and fashionable womenswear. In 1976, he opened his first retail store, called Pamela Scott, on Grafton Street in Dublin. At the time it was unheard of to be both a wholesaler and a retailer, but Barron pulled it off. Dublin was still only trialling the pedestrianisation of Grafton Street, which was to become the capital’s premier shopping destination. Barron started with one floor of a building on Grafton Street sharing…

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