Identity Through Fashion

Saturday 18th November
10am-11am
The Fife Arms Brae Room

Join Bethan Holt – Fashion News & Features Director for The Telegraph – and Kirsty Hassard – Co-Curator of V&A Dundee’s current exhibition Tartan – as they discuss ‘identity through fashion’. They will focus particularly on Queen Elizabeth and Frances Farquharson, the New York socialite and Harper’s Bazaar editor who lived in nearby Braemar Castle, both of whom were great lovers of the Highlands and used tartans and tweeds to show this to the world.

A book signing of Bethan Holt’s The Queen: 70 Years of Majestic Style will follow this event.

Crafting a Sustainable Future in Fashion and Design

Saturday 18th November
12pm-1pm
Highland Games Pavilion

A panel discussion led by Hugo Macdonald of Bard, a shop that celebrates the best of Scottish craft, with: Iseabal Hendry, whose beautiful accessories from woven leatherwork are made with a deep respect for the environment; April Crichton, former designer for Sonia Rykiel Paris who co-founded of the brand La Fetiche out of a desire to create fashion for life using exceptional Scottish artisans.

Paris-Scotland: Gabrielle Chanel’s Love Affair with Scottish Savoir-Faire

Saturday 18th November
2pm-3pm
St Margaret’s

A V&A power conversation between Oriole Cullen – Curator of the V&A’s current sell-out exhibition Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto – and Leonie Bell, Director of V&A Dundee – about Chanel’s love affair with textiles in Scotland and the borders. V&A Dundee’s current exhibition, Tartan, features a couture piece by Chanel in that typically Scottish fabric, and her iconic suits gave some inimitable French style to British tweed.

Conversations in Couture

Saturday 18th November
4pm-5pm
St Margaret’s

London-based couture designer and illustrator, Giles Deacon who mixes fashion, fine art, theatre and grand-scale glamour, will be in conversation with legendary fashion journalist Tim Blanks, who has written for the industry’s leading titles including Vogue, GQ and the Financial Times and is now Editor-at-Large of The Business of Fashion.

Giles trained at Central St Martins alongside Alexander McQueen and worked at Gucci and Bottega Veneta before starting his own label GILES in 2003.

Fashion Illustration Class

Sunday 19th November
10am-11am
The Fife Arms Fog House

Giles Deacon is a London-based couture designer and illustrator who mixes fashion, fine art, theatre and grand-scale glamour. Trained at Central St Martins, his illustrations have been exhibited widely, appearing in publications such as Vogue and The New York Times. Giles will be hosting this class, illustrating his soon-to-be-unveiled bespoke collection for The Fife Arms.

No equipment – or experience – necessary.

The Hidden Histories of Fashion

Sunday 19th November
12pm-1pm
Highland Games Pavilion

Charlie Porter, curator and one of fashion’s most eminent writers, will be in conversation with Oriole Cullen, Senior Curator of Fashion & Textiles at the V&A who studied The History of Dress at London’s Courtauld Institute and has curated some of fashion’s most important exhibitions. Together, they will discuss how clothes can be used in research, in the context of Charlie’s new book Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion and its accompanying exhibition at Charleston.

A book signing of Charlie Porter’s Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion will follow this event

Clothes as Costume: The adventure of dressing

Sunday 19th November
1.30pm-2.30pm
Highland Games Pavilion

Pre-loved style pioneer Bay Garnett’s just-published book Style and Substance: Why what we wear matters is an eclectic celebration of clothes and self-expression, with pieces from contributors including Rachel Weisz, Zadie Smith, David Bowie, Joan Didion and M.I.A. Garnett has over two decades’ worth of experience in the fashion industry and is credited with being the first person to do a fashion shoot entirely with second-hand clothes for Vogue in 2003. She will be in conversation with the celebrated costume designer Sandy Powell, three-time Academy Award winner for Best Costume Design (with 15 nominations) who received the prestigious BAFTA Fellowship earlier this year, the highest honour the Academy can bestow. Sandy modelled a second-hand 1960s purple Dior suit in London Fashion Week’s opening show, which was curated by Bay Garnett using clothes from Oxfam’s warehouse. The two will be discussing how dressing can affect how you feel and how others feel about you, and their shared joy in thrift shopping – the delight of discovery and the pleasure in curating outfits that are utterly unique. A book signing of Bay’s book Style and Substance: Why what we wear matters will follow this event.