New Designer: NKILI
By Alexandra Fiddes. Published 05 April 2012
We talk 'skin and bones' architecture, silk screen printing and luxury with Dundee-based designer Tolani Onajide of NKILI, on the eve of her web store launch...
Fashion > Features
Jennie Lööf: Tomboy Princess
By Rena Niamh Smith. Published 01 March 2012Swedish-born, Glasgow-based designer Jennie Lööf gives us a peek at what has formed her as a designer, influences as diverse as Disney princesses and snowboarding
London Fashion Week A/W 2012
By Alexandra Fiddes and Emma Segal. Published 01 March 2012This London Fashion Week we heard and read about the idea that the 'trend' this season was that there was 'no trend' (as ridiculous a concept as that may sound)....
Made In The Shade Says Goodbye to Glasgow
By Adeline Amar. Published 24 January 2012Made In The Shade, Scotland’s favourite purveyor of all quality-yet-affordable craft and design, are moving on to pastures new – London! Carrie Maclennan and Clare Nicolson have decided to close...
Eleanor's Riot
By Alexandra Fiddes. Published 09 January 2012Launched in early 2011 by Edinburgh based designer Fi MacKay, Eleanor's Riot creates both beautifully elegant and extremely wearable pieces. The intention behind the label is to offer customers a...
Not Just A Pretty Picture
By Nadine Walker. Published 02 December 2011A picture can speak a thousand words. But in the fashion world it takes more than a pretty smile to make it. The Not Just a Pretty Picture team is...
Made in the Shade: Christmas Holiday Hullabaloo
By Adeline Amar. Published 28 November 2011Made in the Shade throws its last boutique event at The Lighthouse and talks about what's in store for 2012 (hint: it's exciting)
Kristen Makes
By Alexandra Fiddes. Published 07 November 2011As she recovers from her stint at London Fashion Week as assistant to Di Gilpin, knitwear designer Kristen Orme lets us have a sneaky peak around her Edinburgh studio and...
GSA Textile and Fashion Promenade, 29 September
Published 17 October 2011After completing a 12 month, full time, postgraduate programme created to 'extend, develop and hone each individual's design signature,' the newest group of GSA Fashion and Textile Masters students showcase...
London Fashion Week – Spring/Summer 2012
By Alexandra Fiddes and Emma Segal. Published 26 September 2011If London Fashion Week is anything to go by Spring/Summer '12 is going to be interesting, as there seems to be two camps emerging within London' key designers: 'luxe simplicity’...
GSA Textile and Fashion Promenade
By Alexandra Fiddes. Published 31 August 2011Scotland has an acclaimed history when it comes to producing textiles and the garments that they create, from Arran knit, Fair Isle, Harris Tweed to the Inverness cape and the...
Inspire The Attire
By Nadine Walker. Published 01 June 2011This June The Garage in Glasgow will be transformed into a spacious fashion venue as the 'Inspire The Attire' event makes it's debut. This event will add another date to...
ECA fashion show , 4-6 May
By Kirsty McLaren. Published 11 May 2011Edinburgh College of Art fashion show was nothing short of spectacular. As one of Scotland’s key cultural events, the two-hour long spectacle set against the backdrop of the dramatically-lit neo-classical...
ECA Fashion Graduates 2011
By Alexandra Fiddes. Published 09 May 2011This May the capital will again see the newest crop of fashion graduates hit the catwalk with their debut collections. The Skinny's fashion team was lucky enough to get up...
No Concessions at Inspace
By Alexandra Fiddes. Published 01 April 2011Inspace will be hosting a series of events starting on 1 April and continuing for three months, focusing on the links between fashion and technology. This No Concessions season will...
Big Apple Turns Tartan For Top Fashion Show
By Bethany Ewen. Published 25 March 2011Design houses like Vivienne Westwood who are enamoured with the most famous Scottish fabric, tartan, might now find themselves faced with a bit of competition, as this year’s Dressed To...
Harris Tweed: 100 Years of the Orb
By Alexandra Fiddes. Published 02 March 2011Harris Tweed is celebrating a hundred years since an act of Parliament was passed to give every length of cloth handwoven in the Outer Hebrides a stamp with the official...
GFF: Fashion In Film
By Alexandra Fiddes. Published 21 February 2011The Skinny's Fashion editor casts an appraising eye over the highlights of the Fashion In Film strand
Charitable Designs
By Kamila Kocialkowska. Published 11 February 2011Ordinarily speaking, it would only be the ludicrously over-competent and proficient eBay bidder who may hope to get their hands on an original Vivienne Westwood garment for under fifteen quid....
Inventors Of Tradition
By Emma Segal. Published 07 February 2011The amalgamation of art and business in fashion is one which is historically prominent in Scottish design. Think, for example, of a gloriously knit Christopher Kane jumper and the...
