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Showing this month at Graduate Fashion Week in London, this year's Edinburgh College of Art graduating class of fashion up-and-comers are an impressive bunch.

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Hilary Laing Ophelia Print Dress

Designer Spotlight: Hilary Laing

Fashion :: Feature 15 Sep 2008

Lindsay West: Printed fashion designer Hilary Laing might draw her inspiration from children's sketchpads, but it's unlikely that your average juvenile artwork comes anywhere close to these divine doodles. A collection filled with playful Crayola swirls set on silk ...

Doll Grown Up

Student Life: Finding your Style

Fashion :: Student Life :: Feature 15 Sep 2008

Kirsteen Connor, Sophie Kyle: WEST BOW & VICTORIA STREET, EDINBURGH Running an almost straight line from the top of Victoria St to the Pubic Triangle is a route that will take you past some of the most boutiquey of boutique shops in town. Victoria Street features exponents of Mang...

Skinny Jeans - Student Handbook 08

Student Life: Style 101

Fashion :: Student Life :: Feature 09 Sep 2008

Lindsay West: Greetings, assembled student masses. Since this Student Handbook as a whole is built to ease your transition into campus life, here in fashion corner, we’d like to help you out with the challenges faced by the style-hungry but strapped-for-cash ...

Paul Marr image

Man From Marrz

Fashion :: Feature 29 Aug 2008

Ema Johnson: Paul Marr has lived a few lives already. After gaining a degree in Modern Musicianship and touring Europe with a rock band, he played bass guitar with various jazz outfits, in between holding down retail jobs to pay the bills. So, when did he fall in ...

Glasgow: SWS Design Collective

Glasgow Style's Better

Fashion :: Feature :: Fashion Shoot 28 Aug 2008

Lindsay West: OLANIC Chances are, you've probably worn an Olanic original without knowing it. As a freelance designer for Schuh, Olanic's Niki Taylor already has designs selling on the high street, but it's her stunning mainline collection that has grabbed copious ...

Mela Logo

Mela Festival - 2 for 1 for Skinny readers

Fashion :: Film :: Theatre :: Heads Up :: Preview 25 Aug 2008

Lizzie Cass-Maran: Everyone knows about the Edinburgh Mela, right? So hands up who has actually been? Well the good news is, whether you’re an old hand or a new recruit, this year’s event is bigger and better than ever before. Ocean Terminal will be crawlin...

See you Skinny

Skinny Jeans - Dressed to Kilt

Fashion :: Feature 24 Aug 2008

Lindsay West: As local heroes go, there can be few candidates with a history as motley and contentious as good auld tartan. If it weren't such a terrible pun, we might say that it's past was checkered; but given that we're far above that sort of cheap gag, we'll jus...

Fashion Vicitims

Fashion Victims

Fashion :: Deviance :: Film :: Comedy :: Review :: DVD Review 22 Aug 2008

Lindsay West: Despite its vague billing as a risque German 'gay interest' comedy, Fashion Victims is in truth a far straighter affair than the rainbow titles and sartorial subtext might first imply. Looking more like a mortgage advisor than a fashion rep, Wolfgang (...

Gilbert and George

When Art and Fashion Collide: Master Pieces

Fashion :: Art :: Feature 08 Aug 2008

Lindsay West: Installation 1: Gilbert & George by Tatty Devine The biform, eccentric world of art stars Gilbert & George has been delightfully extended to incorporate a range by London-based jewellery geniuses, Tatty Devine. Highlights include gin bottle p...

Gloss

Gloss: The Director's Cut

Fashion :: Film :: Review 14 Jul 2008

Lindsay West: Billed as somewhere in the ballpark of a Russian Federate Ugly Betty - a Slavic cousin, perhaps, of The Devil Wears Prada - Gloss: The Directors' Cut was supposed to be a concession to the fashion-conscious art cinema type. A chance, it appeared, to mu...

Keira

Keira Thorley: A Designer's Top 18?

Fashion :: Feature 02 Jul 2008

Lindsay West: "I always have music playing in the studio. Kings of Leon is my absolute favourite, but Ken Keniff always makes me laugh." (Keira Thorley) Kings of Leon - CharmerABBA - Lay All Your Love on Me Sunshine Underground - Put You In Your PlaceAmy Winehouse ...

Jodie's Jewellery

Skinny Invite - Jodie's Jewellery Boutique Opening, 28 Jun

Fashion :: Heads Up :: Preview 23 Jun 2008

Lindsay West: Take a shimmy by Glasgow's Argyll Arcade this weekend for the opening of Jodie's Jewellery Boutique, and you'll be rewarded with a glass of Cava, a host of brand name jewellery, and - if you're there sharpish - a sweet discount. The first 10 customers...

Hunters

Give Festival Season some Welly

Fashion :: Feature 17 Jun 2008

Lindsay West: The Classic - Hunter Boots, £55 www.hunter-boot.com For you if: You're channeling Keira & Sienna in The Edge of Love, Doherty-era, festival-going Kate Moss (without the nasty, tabloid indiscretions), or Brit Awards, Lord-of-the-Manor era Arc...

Xile clothing

Shop-We-Like : Xile Clothing

Fashion :: Feature 17 Jun 2008

Kirsteen Connor: With over 25 years of experience under their belt, Xile have established themselves as one of Britain’s leading independent fashion stores. Since opening in 1981 they’ve grown from a single shop in Edinburgh into four specialised outlets a...

Keira Thorley

Meet the Designer: Keira Thorley

Fashion :: Feature 17 Jun 2008

Lindsay West: As Keira Thorley of up-and-coming label, Keira, will tell you, the collections have a lot of love sewn in: "I want women to feel like these photos. The clothes are tailored to try and make you feel great." Glasgow born, and Edinburgh trained (by way of...

We Like Your Style - Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There

We Like Your Style: Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There

Fashion :: Feature 19 May 2008

Beth Malone : Even with a sock down her pants and a swagger in her pelvis-led step, the ass gives Cate Blanchett away. It’s still a lady bum: even constricted in slim black plants, it remains unmistakably pert. I’m Not There director Todd Haynes purposel...

Raw Vintage

Shop-We-Like: Raw Vintage

Fashion :: Feature 23 Apr 2008

Lindsay West: Broadly speaking, our remit here at The Skinny is to keep you informed about your country’s natural resources, including the little local treasures you might have missed on your travels. On this basis, let us introduce you to Raw Vintage: quite p...

Jem

We Like Your Style: Jem

Fashion :: Feature 23 Apr 2008

Sarah LeMay: Forget Madonna’s conical bustier, and MJ’s single white glove: for the quintessential icon of ‘80s rock star style, say it with me: Jem. Statuesque, with a wild crop of pink hair layered to perfection, Jem rocked the stage in stilett...

The Bjork Imperative

The Bjork Imperative

Fashion :: Feature 01 Apr 2008

Lindsay West: Bienvenue, wilkommen, and welcome, one and all, to The Skinny's brand new fashion section - four pages of meaty sartorial goodness for your delectation. Skinny Jeans has packed its matching luggage and defected from Heads Up, taking up permanent reside...

Oscar and Fitch

Specs appeal

Fashion :: Feature 01 Apr 2008

Lindsay West: It's about time eyewear went high concept. With countless celebrities regularly feigning myopia for fashion's sake, glasses are fast becoming legitimate accessories in their own right. Which is excellent news for the optically-challenged amongst us, wh...

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