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Cover story of American Craft

Check out Goods of Conscience and Father Andrew on the cover of the new issue of American Craft Magazine

A Very Fashionable Bloomsday


Has the fashion world gone literature mad? Earlier this month, indie label Tucker introduced its Fall 2010 line inspired by French writer Marguerite Duras. And Tuesday evening Goods of Conscience, a nonprofit fashion label based in New York, unveiled a Ulysses-inspired collection of tweedy jackets, apron dresses and denim worker's shirts in honor of Bloomsday…

Meet the fashion designer priest

In the June 2009 issue of Vogue, editor- in-chief Anna Wintour

Dress me Father: Meet the true high priest of New York fashion

If you want to give a man an unusual gift this St. Patrick's Day, what better item than a green cotton tie designed by an Irish American priest? Fr. Andrew O'Connor, the designer of the tie, is based at the Church of the Holy Family at Castle Hill Avenue in the Bronx. He creates fair-trade fashions for men and women under a label called "Goods of Conscience."

A Miracle on Main Street? This Man of the Cloth Is Running a Clothing Company

Enron, the Great Recession, Bernie Madoff, subprime loans, banks twisting the screws on customers with overdraft fees and exorbitant credit card interest rates -- the business world hasn't looked very friendly in the last decade. Maybe the time is right to remember entrepreneurs like Father Andrew More O'Connor.

A devine designer in the Bronx

THE BRONX (WABC) -- During this holiday season, there's a man in the Bronx who will not only be delivering Mass, he will be helping people look like they've come off the pages of a fashion magazine. You might call him a Renaissance man of modern times.

La Moda de Father O'Connor

Las calles de Nueva York brillan estos dias más que nunca con sus millones de luces que anuncian la Navidad. En medio de este ir y venir, los alumnos de Diseño de Parsons han presentado sus ultimas creaciones en la Mid Season Preview 2009. Cruzar las puertas de Parsons siempre es divertido por el ambiente que bulle desde el mismo hall de entrada hasta sus clases de diseño,…

New York's Fashion Faithful Flock to Catholic Priest

When Father Andrew O’Connor helped a friend’s daughter...

HandEye Magazine "Certain Clothes"

If you want to know where your clothes come from...

New York's fashion faithful flock to Catholic priest

When Father Andrew O’Connor helped a friend’s daughter prepare for marriage earlier this year, he never imagined it would lead to a photo shoot with Vogue.

Bronx Priest Clothing Designs Featured In Vogue

NEW YORK (CBS) ―

 There's a fashion designer in the Bronx with a star-studded list of fans, but instead of walking the red carpet, you'll have to drop by Holy Family Church in Castle Hill to find this man of the cloth.

Bronx priest Rev. Andrew O'Connor gives fashion design an organic twist

A halo is not an accessory one envisions on Anna Wintour.

Yet the Vogue editor's discovery of a fashion designer who happens to be a priest is causing miracles in his Mission Statement: Holy Fashion

About a year ago, Father Andrew More O’Connor, a Diocesan priest who resides over Bronx parish Holy Trinity, captured the attention of a market editor at Vogue, who, at the time was seeking a simple marriage blessing for her upcoming wedding. What she discovered was that this man of God was also a man of fashion, committed to creating a clothing line that gives back, and at the…

The Catholic Church still has some game!

There is the finca in El Salvador where Fr. O'Connor buys organic indigo. He has a workshop in the Bronx where they make clothing, table linens and bedding from a cloth he has developed in Guatemala called Social Fabric. Last week he was heading down to Harper's Bazaar to drop off a dress that will be featured in an upcoming Spring issue.

High-End Designer Answers to Higher Power

Priest With Passion for Fashion Provides Parishioners With Jobs, Guatemalan Village With Funds...

Bronx priest turns to high-end fashion

The Rev. Andrew O'Connor, who serves in what he describes as "the parish of Jennifer Lopez," has an untraditional sideline. O'Connor, who has been making patterns since he…

Weaving Goods With Conscience

From the hills of Guatemala via the backstreets of the Bronx, Goods of Conscience founder Father Andrew O’Connor has taken his style and vision to the heights of the fashion world. Today and tomorrow he brings his fashion line to Stanley Korshak in Dallas.

Weaving the Social Fabric - Goods of Conscience at ACC Salon

Father Andrew O'Connor is an unlikely fashion icon...

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