STYLISH SCOTS TAKE A STAND AT
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The initiative has
previously enjoyed three successful seasons at LFW and has returned for
a fourth season to showcase fashion trailblazers Aimee McWilliams, Deryck
Walker, Olanic and Vidler & Nixon, alongside Alice Palmer, BeBaroque,
Graeme Armour and Jamie Bruski-Tetsill, who together represent the project’s
Next Generation of design talent.
As well as offering each of the designers a chance to preview their
eagerly awaited Spring Summer ’09 collections at ‘The Tents’ at the Natural
History Museum, this year the project has also enabled Vidler & Nixon,
Olanic and Deryck Walker to bring their collections to life with innovative
fashion films. In addition, Olanic’s Niki
Taylor presented her debut catwalk show at LFW at Vauxhall Fashion Scout.
As part of the LFW activity, a VIP reception was held at the
cutting-edge
Funded jointly by
Glasgow
The project has been supported by
the British Fashion Council for the past four seasons and Simon Ward, Head of
Operations, says: “Since its inception
in September 06, the
“It’s fantastic to see that not
only are young designers offered this support, but are given a platform to
enter the industry at professional level.
Minister for
Culture Linda Fabiani confirmed: "This is
a wonderful opportunity for eight of our brightest young fashion designers to
showcase their talent to a global audience. Our higher and further
education institutions have a strong track record in producing excellent creative
talent and in line with our renowned textiles industry,
Bailie
“We are also thrilled that Glaswegians
will not have to wait long to see Aimee, Alice, Jamie, and Vidler & Nixon
on their home turf when their new collections are showcased on the catwalk as part
of the Scottish Style Awards Runway Show in Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket on 23rd
October.”
A
bespoke website can be accessed at: www.seeglasgow.com/design
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Moira Dyer, Senior Manager, Public Relations at
Glasgow
Notes to Editors
1.
The Glasgow: Scotland with style Design
Collective’s first two seasons at London Fashion Week (September 06,
February 07) were funded solely by Glasgow
2.
The 2008
Glasgow-based advisory panel comprised; Jimmy Stephen-Cran, Head of Textiles –
School of Design, The Glasgow School of Art;
3.
Scottish
Enterprise Textiles Team’s designer/manufacturer collaboration initiative is
helping to address two key areas of the Scottish Textiles Industry Strategy:
raising the international profile of Scottish textiles companies and
encouraging greater levels of innovation and collaboration within the sector.
4.
London Fashion Week takes place from 14-19 September in
‘The Tents’ at the Natural History Museum.
The
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Aimee McWilliams spent her early years in Metropolitan Glasgow before moving to
- Deryck Walker studied fashion/textiles in
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Olanic creative force, Niki Taylor, is driven by the idea of heightening
everyday, practical styles with a directional, tailored edge. Olanic has exhibited over three seasons as
part of the
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Vidler & Nixon is the successful working partnership of
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Alice Palmer graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2000 and
in the same year designed a knitted fabric that
combined silk with wire that was displayed at an inventors' showcase at the
Glasgow Science Centre and named as one of country's most creative
products. She has since gained a Masters from the Royal
College of Art specialising in Knitted Textiles, and explores unconventional
methods of construction, allowing a three dimensional form. This is her first season showing at London
Fashion Week.
- BeBaroque was established in 2007 by fashion duo Mhairi
McNicol and Chloe Patience after both designers
completed an Honours degree in Textiles at The Glasgow School of Art. Both designers then went on to gain
Master degrees in Textiles and Fashion; Chloe completing her course at
Edinburgh College of Art, and Mhairi at The Glasgow School of Art. Combining Chloe’s artistic skills
with Mhairi’s embroidery, they have created distinctive hosiery unique in
the current fashion market. Their
work has quickly been adopted by leading stockists including Diverse,
Bordello, Boudiche, ASOS.com and
- Glasgow-born Graeme Armour is a graduate of Central Saint
Martins whose talent was spotted by Alexander McQueen as early as
2004. Representing cutting edge,
iconoclastic talent in both design and creativity, Graeme was singled out
as a 2007 finalist in the prestigious Fashion Fringe for his work in
silks, organza and jersey. As well
as being part of the
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Jamie Bruski Tetsill left The Glasgow
School of Art in 2005 with a first class BA Honours degree in Textiles, and
graduated with an MA in Fashion from Central Saint Martins in 2007. Jamie showed his S/S 08 collection at London
Fashion Week in September 07 as part of the
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