SR:D x Fashion Festival Full Programme

Social enterprise Scotland Re:Design announces its Fashion Festival’s first night at the iconic Scottish home of Design.

Showcasing the best of Scottish fashion, the catwalk event with tickets from £22.50 is a major fundraiser for the sector and marks a return to the industry’s renowned annual showcase and Runway show which has taken place across Scotland, the UK and internationally since 2005.

Join us for an evening of the best of Scottish fashion with music by international touring DJ Dicky Trisco, in a unique night and the first ever Scottish fashion showcase at the V&A Dundee. Hosted and produced by social enterprise Scotland Re:Design (SRD) with Kay McIntyre and McIntyre's Hair Salons, Model Team and supported by EventScotland for their first live event since lockdown, the evening is the opening night for Scotland’s annual Fashion Festival, returning from 17th to 21st November to support Scottish makers, designers, and workers in Fashion. Celebrating Equality, Sustainability & Technology in Fashion come along to support and meet your community and enjoy discovering your new Scottish clothing.

Take a look into LAW Design Studio via this film and creative exploration of a considered clothing brand run by mum of two Gillian McNeill, designed and made in Glasgow primarily aimed at women aged 25-65. The collection is produced using natural fibres and designed to be comfortable for changing bodies offering a size collection from 4-26. 'Made to order' and 'small batch' reduces waste and any surplus waste from the offcuts is turned into beautiful linen baby clothes called "Little LAW".

Tickets are £12.50 or £10 concessions including all charges.

As wedding specialists, Freja Fashion run by Mette Baillie likes to challenge the ideas of binary fashion and highlight those designs can be gender fluid, to broaden the general view of “bride & groom” gender stereotypes. Fashion has become gender free to be inclusive, and wedding fashion should follow that trend. Freja Fashion brings a unique collaboration to an online audience with Fern Photography showing the strength and beauty of living your truth.

Tickets are £12.50 or £10 concessions including all charges.

Dundee’s Jo-AMI creates cool, comfy and considered designs, specialising in knitwear, established in 2019. This year saw Jo-AMI launch a new product in the form of t-shirts with knitted patches in a variety of colours and unisex designs. Jo-AMI creates versatile, creative pieces that encourage styling options and longevity. These high-quality pieces represent modern Scottish knitwear and sustainable, highly skilled production.  

This exclusive film will show behind the scenes footage, including setting-up, styling and shooting a photoshoot with photographer and models. Jolene will share her story and connection to knitwear whilst also interviewing the others involved in the shoot. This live stream aims to encourage collaboration, show insightful information, and highlight the joy of designing and making.

Tickets are £12.50 or £10 concessions including all charges.

Model, entrepreneur, jewellery designer, social media star and Dundee creative of 12 years, HoweyDon is teaming up with other creatives to bring this vision to life with a film that celebrates diversity and the infusion of Scottish and Ethnic minority fashion. As a collective, none of those involved are originally Scottish, but have embraced Scotland as their home. Through fashion, they will tell an exciting story of acceptance, growth, dreaming and achieving dreams shot and produced in Tayside and surrounding areas with local fashion and accessories designers, models, a photographer, and videographers.

Tickets are £12.50 or £10 concessions including all charges.

Exploring what took place in the VIP delegate only 'Blue Zone' at COP26 for Scottish Fashion, this event enables you to see, participate and inform on what happened, and what happens next, for a collaboration called Generation of Waste.

Created between three Scottish Fashion powerhouses; Dr. Antoinette Fionda-Douglas of Beira; Mairi Lowe and Liisa Lehtinen, and the team at Sustainable Fashion Scotland; and Cassandra Belanger and the team at Zero Waste Design Collective Online, Generation of Waste is an incredible installation created in Scotland to show the 25,000 attendees what's happening across global fashion supply chains, and start a new dialogue.

Featuring a fashion film of activities from COP26 produced in partnership with Lateral North, the event will start by telling the story of their unique and high impact COP26 exhibition and sculpture, supported by RATTI | Luxury and Fine Fabrics , Heriot-Watt University Zero Waste Scotland; Creative Informatics, AND, and August; and discuss their manifesto for change and next steps.

Launched in February 2020, Sustainable Fashion Scotland (SFS) is a community-led social enterprise with the mission to connect the fashion community in Scotland and accelerate a sustainable fashion transformation - focusing on collective action. They host online events for the community to share knowledge and connect with each other and conduct data-driven research to support the long-term vision and reality of fashion in Scotland. SFS is also the company that connected and enabled the Generation of Waste collaboration.

In keeping with SRD’s Fashion festival aims to support Sustainability and Scottish Fashion, if you are eco-minded and want to know how to be more sustainable in your choices, and what to look out for when it comes to fashion in Scotland, then this is the one for you. SFS aims to support and highlight the innovative creative work going on in Scotland, and so a large part of the film/Q&A is discussing great solutions happening here for you to support. 

Tickets are £12.50 or £10 concessions including all charges.

As part of this year’s Scotland Re:Design (SR:D) Fashion Festival, SR:D and Biome Collective bring you Arcadia presents Interlace: Conversations between fashion, games and digital art on Friday November 19th 2021, online at 5-7pm.

In the first ever major public Scottish collaboration event for Gaming and Fashion broadcast live from Dundee to Scottish Fashion & Gamers, the evening features leading international game and fashion designers and thinkers from across the industry exploring a range of topics from cosplay craft and Fashion in Games to future design trends and sustainability.

People from across the world will gather online including Caitlin Goodale - Head of User Experience at Drest, Jade How - Head of Fashion at Lockwood Publishing, Alexandra Orlando - Community Manager at Kitfox Games, Digital Artist / CG Generalist Miya Shen, and Narrative Game Designer at Twin Drums Kira Farron, Communications and Content Manager at Fashion Revolution Ruth MacGilp, and Knitwear designer / Product Developer Jeni Allison. 

Fast fashion and shoppers face challenges at home and up and down the High Streets, our home-grown industry and our audiences, and opportunities, are online. Taking place the week after COP26, the message is clear to think of new ways to shop, to buy Scottish, shop local, and support each other on the journey towards creating a new, circular and inclusive industry and economy.

H.S by Hayley Scanlan is an affordable, accessible, and contemporary slow fashion womenswear brand bridging the gap between high street and high end.

In an up close and personal event featuring an Upcycling workshop for children and adults at the SRD Fashion Festival Pop-Up space in Overgate Shopping Centre, Hayley will showcase and talk through her new capsule collection for A/W21 collection “We will dance again”, for an exclusive first buy opportunity following the SRD Runway show earlier in the week at V&A Dundee.

Being a slow fashion brand, her mission is to provide contemporary yet high quality garments that are made to last a lifetime but are inclusive of everyone and will never go out of style. Sustainability is a huge factor for Hayley, who focuses on all her work being ethically made (everything hand made by seamstresses in Dundee) with a mission to gradually transform the H.S brand into a 100% sustainable brand by 2023. H.S by Hayley Scanlan launched in 2012 and has continued to grow ever since selling independently direct to customers in countries all over the world.

Dundee born contemporary womenswear designer Dr. Hayley Scanlan first learned the art of dressmaking from Supergran Ella Bonar. This early experience inspired Hayley to study Textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) where she emerged as an individual talent in the spectacular style which would quickly become her trademark when her Degree Show ‘New Frontiers’ caught the attention of Supermodel Erin O’Connor and Vogue.co.uk with the latter naming her ‘Scotland’s coolest young designer'. Before returning to DJCAD to finish her degree Hayley interned as a Print Designer with L.A. based superstar designer Jeremy Scott (currently creative director of Moschino) in Hollywood before heading to the UK fashion capital to assist Francesca Burns (previously fashion editor at British Vogue) at iD magazine in London. In 2012 Hayley was named 'Scottish Young Designer of the Year' at the Scottish Fashion Awards, before winning the title again in 2014, the first person to win the coveted award twice, and launched her now established diffusion line, 'H·S', with it’s debut collection ‘Velvet Venom’, a collaboration with the V&A, from her own recently opened design studio based in her home town of Dundee. After launching in 2012 'H·S' has increased both in scale and scope, becoming a firm favourite with U.K Pop Princesses Little Mix, Pixie Lott, Jessie J to name but a few. Also collaborating with high street giants Topshop Oxford Circus and Debenhams. 'H·S' opened their first store in 2017 and Hayley’s creative collaboration with V&A Dundee and her hometown continues to strengthen, V&A Dundee named her a 'Design Champion' for their new Scottish Design Museum, and the University of Dundee awarded her an honorary doctorate for her outstanding contribution to being a creative ambassador for the city in 2019. Dr. Hayley Scanlan’s work proves that moving to a fashion capital to have a successful brand is not a necessity. 'H.S' continues to grow, and Hayley continues live and work in Dundee with her twin Sons Freddie and Oscar.

Tickets are £60 including materials, charges and tax (11+ age limit, maximum capacity of 6)

ReJean by designer Siobhan McKenna, creates vintage inspired workwear from reclaimed denim.

Mobo Agoro and ReJean have planned an intimate highly curated music and fashion event through a live performance from one of Mobo's rising stars, Joell, in Glasgow’s Pipe Factory in the East End of the city. Joell and other performers will be wearing head to toe ReJean. The gig will showcase new music and the new ReJean collection, with a theme of double denim, and true blue Texas tuxedo. There will be an opportunity to order from the new collection, with plenty of pieces available to try and buy on the day too. ReJean is a seasonless brand, but their new core collection will show new styles for EVERY body in this special and unique event for music and fashion lovers alike.

Tickets are £12.50 or £10 concessions including all charges. Online ticketing available

Fashion Interrupted aims to create immersive art and fashion residencies with a focus on creative expression, process and professional development using emerging digital technology. In a research and development phase, Fashion Interrupted aims to create digital artifacts (NFTs, wearables, digital fashion), and this online special introduces a conversation around fashion, innovation, and our impact on the environment. It would enable the participants involved to develop a new skillset by being exposed to blockchain and the minting process, how it’s possible to do that with ecologically sound partners and encourage radical thinking and open the door to new possibilities.

If you are collectors and investors, interested in innovation, newness and Scottish design, early adopters who want to be at the forefront of a new era in fashion, and curious about digital clothing – this one is for you.

Digital fashion uses a fraction of the resources that physical fashion does. Technology & Innovation - Through this NFT drop Fashion Interrupted introduces you to the innovative new technology used to re-create the physical garments.

Tickets are £12.50 or £10 concessions including all charges & tax.

Ellipsis is luxury womenswear brand by designer Nicole Christie collaborating with Glasgow based singer/songwriter Riley who will broadcast an EP and collections to cherish for years to come in a mission to slow fast fashion.

All garments & accessories have been designed & manufactured in-house strengthening artisanal skills that have been lost in a mass-produced industry. Ellipsis began selling their luxury garments and accessories in October 2020 after finishing the Modern Artisan programme for Yoox Net-a-Porter and the Princes Foundation. The project has had a huge influence on Ellipsis from the importance of sustainability to the high quality of manufacturing garments in Luxury fabrics for the Luxury market. Riley has been writing and creating her own music since she was eleven years old. Now at 22 she is gearing up to release a string of singles in the form of a debut EP coming early 2022. Her music is best described as Nashville-pop pairing intricate storytelling lyrics with a sassy and current pop production.

As young people they have a voice to topics like climate change and sustainability, and will have worked together on song lyrics, melody, silhouettes, colours and fabric to be worn for the performance of each track from Riley's upcoming EP, showcasing sustainable fashion through music.

Tickets are £12.50 or £10 concessions including all charges & tax.

31-year-old Ayrshire based Belocine Musolo is French and Congolese and moved to Scotland in September 2017 for her corporate job in biotechnology. Having always loved fashion Belocine taught herself how to sew in 2012. Always working with African textile, as it is a part of her cultural heritage she just loves, Belocine wanted to share this feeling with Scottish people and started her clothing business and make everything herself.

In a video show casing her work, including behind the scenes footage showing how Belocine creates her work, her collaborators and creates a photoshoot for her website. The theme is all about showing you a backstage preview into "being a small fashion business in Scotland" and is set to inspire you.

Belocine’s handmade pieces are created using fabric from local African shops in Benin and Nigeria mainly, to ensure ethically sourced material and support for African local communities through the brand, which suits everyone no matter how you look. Join to share joy with her colourful and bold prints and culture through fashion.

Tickets are £12.50 or £10 concessions including all charges & tax.

Fraser Taylor co-founded The Cloth, 1983 – 1987, a creative studio based in London which focused on contemporary textile design and production. Since 1987 he has developed an interdisciplinary art practice and exhibited internationally, and his collaborative works includes projects with visual artists, designers, and contemporary dance. Haxton by Fraser Taylor was established in the summer of 2020 in response to an invitation to exhibit during the summer of 2020 in Chicago. In developing the Haxton concept, Taylor revisited a collection of images that were motivated by a series of 1980s drawings made on the west coast of Scotland. He returns to a system of making that was prominent in his practice between 1977 and 1987. This includes silk-screen printing for fashion but what differs today is the inclusion of digital printing.

The mission of Haxton is to engage in a series of expansive projects with practiced makers and thinkers, and this film together with an introduction and opportunity to talk with the creatives will focus on the importance of collaboration and the relevance of drawing which provides imagery, form and colour employed by Haxton and Taylor’s practice which blurs the boundaries between fine art and design. Taylor left Scotland in 1981 and lived in London and Chicago until he returned in 2017. Returning to Scotland has allowed him to look back at his work, and by looking back he has discovered how to go forward. He has committed time to reconnecting to Scotland and establish a forceful creative community.

Tickets are £12.50 or £10 concessions including all charges & tax.

Samantha Paton and her amazing team from Isolated Heroes will present a brand-new drop described as Ultra Glam with an exclusive film to wrap up the Fashion festival and show Sam’s latest creations as Isolated Heroes gets set together with you for the Christmas season ahead.  Join the party live to say hi, view the film and then join the after-party online afterwards from your home for a strict dress code of Sequins & Sass for Camera-On, and PJ’s are fine for Camera-Off.

UK customers who buy tickets will receive an Isolated Heroes Goody bag – please opt in to ensure you get your bag and buy before Thursday 4th November. Party-goers who live abroad or after Thursday 4th November will be unable to receive a goody bag, so get booked in now to guarantee your space for this online exclusive.

Isolated Heroes began in 2021, and is on a mission to empower women of all shapes, designing feel good clothing that help customers feel like the sassiest versions of themselves. Each item has been designed with the sole purpose of building the confidence of the women that wear the clothing. One of the first independent brands to champion body positivity, they developed collections in a size range accessible to all. (Designs available from UK6 - UK28). Samantha’s goal at the company is to spread a message of self-love and body acceptance through her designs and execution of products. Challenging body stereotypes and unrealistic beauty standards projected by Fast fashion companies; Isolated Heroes ensure that each social media campaign is carefully curated to include a diverse range of models with a true representation of women’s bodies. Isolated Heroes signature faux fur and sassy sequin styles have gained interest from celebrities across the globe. The brand now counts Miley Cyrus, Paloma Faith, Pixie Lott, top social influencer Sophie Hannah, Becky Hill and most recently comedian Katherine Ryan among its growing international client base.

Tickets are £12.50 or £10 concessions including all charges & tax.

UK Customer exclusive: Opt In to receive a free Isolated Heroes goody bag by Thursday 4th November