Scotland Re:Designed Returns: Glasgow 8 – 12 November 2017

Scotland Re:Designed Supportng Design, Commercialising Creativity & Selling Scotland 

Annual showcase of Fashion, Accessories & Interiors at SWG3, 

Glasgow 8 – 12 November 2017

Scotland as the source for top designs, quality textiles, and luxury fashion is well-known the world over.  So it is great to see emerging and young talents get the continued support they need from the industry and experts.

This November, Scotland Re:Designed (SR:D) returns celebrating luxury and Scottish making all under one roof.   The event opens on Wednesday 8th – Sunday 12th November at the multi-cultural arts venue, SWG3 .

The venue’s newly built Galvanizers will host its first ever runway plus a host of panel discussions with interior and lifestyle designer and agency, Ella Doran, Graduate Fashion Week trustee and former Fashion Director at the Daily Telegraph, Hilary Alexander OBE, and Managing Director at Graduate Fashion Week & Fashion Scout, Martyn Roberts.

For 2017, brands and designers have been encouraged to show their skills and demonstrate the knack behind their designs. Through display and workshops, with a Makers theme including rucksack-making from artist and illustrator, Alice Dansey-Wright and embroidery & embellishments workshops from award-winning textile designer Chloe Patience.

SR:D will provide industry-led panel discussions, creative demonstrations, workshops and the much-anticipated runway show and private view. A static exhibition will feature designs by April Crichton and contemporary art from Hamilton-born sculptor Martin Boyce, eyewear from Niche Optical, luxury Paisley knitwear from Pringle of Scotland, Hawick Knitwear collaborations, heritage tweeds, jewellery plus avant-garde fashion from Scotland’s hottest new names.

The weekend Hypermarket provides a unique opportunity to browse current season collections from Scottish brands and businesses. Building on SR:D Glasgow’s ‘Makers’ theme, the Hypermarket brings SR:D’s calendar to a phenomenal crescendo with exquisite food and drink,  creative demonstrations plus high-end fashion brands and interior designs to an audience of trade, media & consumers.

Live DJ sets will take place from The Scottish Alternative Music Award’s Best Live Act winners The Van T’s and Dundonian alternative pop four-piece Model Aeroplanes.

SR:D is great for networking too, offering a unique chance for industry to meet face-to-face with exclusive Scottish businesses and brands, enabling new connections, collaborations and clients for Scottish design, propelling careers and bringing local skills and making into mainstream consciousness.

Perfect for students, graduates, industry and the entrepreneurial-minded, SR:D’s jam-packed programme will feature fashion elite, interior design experts, creative start-ups and powerful collaborators including cult designer Pam Hogg, Henrik Nielsen of The Danish Fashion Institute, photographer Stew Bryden and menswear designer Kestin Hare.

For more information and tickets, click HERE.

Photos above: Model Team’s Connor Newall & Amy McSloy by Aleksandra Modrzejewska , a Polish photographer based in Edinburgh.

New exhibition capturing the story of Harris Tweed's Hebridean home is launched

From the land, comes the cloth.

Harris Tweed, the unique fabric so desired by international fashion houses and designers that makes them among the world’s favourite cloth, continues to be celebrated in today's fast-moving and challenging global fashion industry.   The luxury cloth is handwoven by islanders of Lewis, Harris, Uist and Barra from pure virgin wool that has been dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

Ancient Lands, Isle of Harris

And now the stunning landscape, colour and light, dramatic weather and scenery of the Harris Tweed brand's Hebridean home are captured by a world-renowned photographer in a new exhibition which was launched on 12th February and will run until 15th May.

Arrival of Spring, Ardhasaig, Isle of Harris

The exhibition is called "Harris Tweed: From the Land"; the result of a collaboration between British photographer Ian Lawson and the Harris Tweed Authority – guardians of the iconic Harris Tweed Orb Mark.

A decade in the making, the exhibition is officially opened by Patrick Grant, creative director of London Savile Row’s Norton and Sons and a judge on the Great British Sewing Bee,  at The Gallery, Rheged Centre, in Penrith, the gateway to the Lake District in Cumbria, England – a great setting for this exhibition.

Forever Young, Eriskay Pony, Luskentyre, Harris

The extraordinary pictures will take each visitor on a journey into the very heart of the Scottish Outer Hebrides, the remote and romantic home of the world-famous Harris Tweed.

This stunning exploration of the fabric’s journey from the islands to international stardom is set within the context of Photographer Ian Lawson’s deeply personal narrative. Ian expertly charts the people and the places that are instrumental in the creation of this sought-after fabric.

Morag Morrison, Shepherdess, Lickisto, Harris

The photographer said: “The people and islands of the Scottish Outer Hebrides share a long and rich heritage, steeped in tradition. I have discovered so many stories and characters in this beautiful part of the world, as I have come to know the men and women who weave and produce the world famous Harris Tweed cloth.

“Harris Tweed: From the Land offers an insight into this stunning part of the world and the people which bring it to life.”

The exhibition will be officially opened by Patrick Grant, creative director of Savile Row’s Norton and Sons and a judge on the Great British Sewing Bee, on Thursday 11 February 2016 to invited guests at The Gallery, Rheged Centre, Penrith in the Lake District.

Featuring a working loom as a centrepiece, the pictures depict many characters from the islands, along with the making of this enviable cloth as well as the beautiful landscape that influences the production of the fabric.

Also on show will be a collection of beautiful Harris Tweed products and objects sourced from the weavers and designers Ian has met along his journey as well as a film.

All photos by Ian Lawson, supplied by Harris Tweed Authority.