Fashion

Art School Degree Shows

22 May 2008

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART Ragnar Jonasson Painter Originally from Iceland, Ragnar Jonasson paints, but not using brushes or canvas. ‘I’m pouring paint,’ he explains, ‘from saucepans. I pour it onto plastic, then peel it off, so there’s nothing…

Scarlett Johansson's Stella latex

Celebrity Gossip

8 May 2008

Stella McCartney wants to design a black latex wedding dress for Scarlett Johansson. The British fashion designer, the daughter of Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney, believes the unusual sexy gown would be perfect for when Scarlett marries fiance…

createeurope

24 Apr 2008

The Goethe Institut are helping to launch createeurope, a pan-European competition for young fashion designers, with a day of talks and discussions looking at how the German and Scottish fashion industries have been revived after years of being…

Clemens en August

10 Apr 2008

The thing about fashion is it’s just too readily available these days. When everybody’s wearing the same labels, how can you really be sure you’re setting yourself apart from the crowd, eh? Answer: by buying from a label that only sells for three days a…

Edinburgh College of Art 2008 Fashion Show Announced

7 Mar 2008

Edinburgh College of Art yesterday announced the dates of their 2008 Fashion Show which will showcase the latest tailoring by graduating students. The annual event, which has been running for over 50 years, will take place on Wednesday 7 and Friday 9…

Preview 2008 - Fashion

4 Jan 2008

Is it just me, or has it got dark in here? Spring/summer fashions usually burst out in bright colours, but this year most designers haven’t managed to shake the winter blues (and purples and greens). Klaxons, who led 2007’s tooth-jangling Technicolor…

Vintage clothes in Glasgow and Edinburgh

20 Sep 2007

Throwing out old clothes can be an emotional task and parting with that ripped pair of jeans you wore every day when you were 19 can be hard, but with a little imagination and some creative stitching, rips, tears and pinching waistlines need no longer…

Kylie – The Exhibition

20 Sep 2007

EXHIBITION Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Fri 21 Sep–Sun 23 Jan 2008 ‘The interesting thing about Kylie is that she represents that world of glitter and glamour and sparkle that so many gay people wrap around themselves as a form of…

Merchant City Festival

20 Sep 2007

We’re not short of festivals in Scotland. The months between April and November have begun to feel like one of those Strip the Willows that happen at particularly drunken céilidhs, where you’re buffeted relentlessly between cultural events and…

Kelvingrove gears up for Kylie costume show

19 Sep 2007

Kylie Minogue’s stage costumes will go on show at the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery on Friday - from the overalls she wore as Charlene in Neighbours to her Kylie Showgirl: Homecoming Tour. The sartorial show, which tracks the pop star’s changing…

Scottish designers show wares on London catwalks

18 Sep 2007

Christopher Kane has showcased his latest designs at London Fashion Week – bouncing back after part of his collection was stolen from his London studio just days before they were due to hit the catwalk. The 25-year-old designer, who has worked with…

Burgled designer in race to recreate collection

10 Sep 2007

A young Scottish fashion designer has been left reeling after his new designs were stolen just days before they were due to be unveiled at London Fashion Week. Christopher Kane, 24, was due to attend a fashion ceremony at Stirling Castle on Sunday…

Valentino to retire from couture house

5 Sep 2007

Fashion designer Valentino has announced plans to retire in January, after nearly 50 years at the helm of the couture house. The 75-year-old, who has dressed the likes of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, is a firm…

Mission in Action Fashion Fundraiser

Mission In Action Fashion Show

9 Apr 2007

Fashion Fundraiser ‘Living in this country, we’ve just got no concept of how hard it is for people out there,’ says Annalese McDermott, director of Edinburgh modelling agency Stolen, and co-founder of the UK branch of Mission in Action. Mission in…

Christopher Kane

Sexy Boy

27 Mar 2007

Imagine you’re a 23-year-old fashion postgraduate from Motherwell. Your work is featured in Vogue in an article on student designers, and then Anna Wintour herself turns up at your degree show. She recommends that you meet Donatella - yes, Versace - and…

Shop - A Sale in Two Cities

Life & Style

27 Mar 2007

Krista Blake and Fleur Macintosh haven’t met. Maybe they should have. Macintosh took over tiny Edinburgh vintage clothing store Godiva as a 23-year-old graduate, and, five years and a change of venue later, it is one of the most original clothing…

Life & Style - Shop

Glasgow styles better

12 Mar 2007

Saville Row, Champs Elyseé, Buchanan Street . . . Designer labels are to Glasgow what coals once were to Newcastle. As the first ever Glasgow Fashion Week struts its stuff all over George Square, Kirstin Innes speaks to three up and coming young…

Shop - Clothes Swap

MULTICOLOURED SWAP SHOP

28 Feb 2007

Photography: Kate V Robertson Additional research: Diana Kiernander I hate this dress. I bought it in a sweaty panic in the tenth shop I’d run into, after discovering that a boyfriend’s sister’s birthday party was going to be more formal than…

Ethical chic

What’s the human cost of your £10 catwalk-copy

16 Jan 2007

The backlash against cut-price clothing starts here. Bin your £2 T-shirts and call off the search for the low-budget version of Kate Moss’ latest tote, because fashion just got serious.

Dress to Dye For, A

Coats of Many Colours

19 Dec 2006

Three inventions - the sewing machine, synthetic dyes and the cage-crinoline - had a huge impact on fashion and society. Find out how these changed life (and in some instances brought death) in Victorian Britain, and how the colour mauve had an…

Devil Wears Prada, The

The Devil Wears Prada

2 Oct 2006

DRAMA Long before Jimmy Choo or Louis Vuitton, the Romans knew the score on couture. Back in 1AD Roman philosopher Seneca warned of the imperilled dangers of living ‘not according to reason, but according to fashion.’ Not that anyone took any notice.