Our good friends over at HeeHaw have produced this very cool video for Visit Scotland where our other friends, Kestin Hare and Harris Tweed, have been featured along side Scot Street Style in the year of Innovation, Architecture and Design.

Take a look

VISIT SCOTLAND // YEAR OF INNOVATION, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN 2016 from Heehaw on Vimeo.

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Last month, as a friend of New York City’s Tartan week, to celebrate Robert Burns’ birthday, Gordon was asked to recite “A Bottle and a Friend”.

Here’s the video which includes our friends, Tristan Cameron Harper, professional ice hockey player and model and Howie Nicholsby, Celebrity kilt designer and owner of 21st Century Kilts in Edinburgh.

See the original post on the NY Tartan Week official website and have a look at Gordon’s full recital of the poem in Dalkeith Country Park outside The University of Wisconsin’s lovely building.

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View the original blog post over on Greener Scotland

Greener living can enrich every part of our lives, and we can all play our part. From the clothes we wear to the buildings we inhabit, we can raise awareness and actively participate in environmental sustainability, reducing carbon emissions and making things last, starting right here in Scotland.

Vintage with a Modern Twist, the title of our recent themed evening with Blind Pig Cider, tapped in to a current and increasingly relevant school of thought, across the spectrums of sustainability and artistic expression. At our events, we fill spaces with creatives, and the creative spaces we select are a vital part of enhancing and enriching the experience.

We see this renaissance and restoration in the fabric of architecture. Take the buildings Glasgow, for example, the industrial heart of this land, ripped out post WWII and replaced with soulless concrete monoliths, only to be destroyed a few damp-filled decades later. As the demolition dust settles, the original breathtaking beauty of a bygone era is revealed, with those alluring old tenements and characterful factories ready for revamp, repair and rejuvenation.

Here in Edinburgh, our capital city, we are blessed with a rich and living history of spaces and places, lovingly conserved, with hardly a concrete block in sight, to blight the extraordinary Old and New Town cobbled streets.

This increasing awareness of the value of preservation is a refreshing and inspiring antithesis, to the insidious creeping of an all-consuming disposable society, from single-use indestructible plastics to fast fashion.

With these principles in mind, we ventured forth to find the right venue for this particular event, and returned to the Biscuit Factory in Leith, a raw, organic, industrial hive with echoes of Brooklyn or Berlin. This unique blank canvas harks back to the time of the speakeasys and underground establishments of days gone by. And who to awaken this dormant dreamspace? It simply had to be the supremely talented team from Stewart Christie & Co, Scotland’s oldest bespoke tailors, driven by the vision of Vixy Rae. We attended their new ownership launch and worked together on the epic Master of Ceremony shoot so collaborating once more for our evening of Vintage with a Modern Twist felt like a natural part of a trilogy. Vixy transformed the space, breathing life and warmth into it by draping rescued authentic Scottish textiles around the old pillars, and hanging poster-sized imagery, celebrating the craft of the cloth.

We’ve witnessed a resurgence of the value of well made garments and vintage stores in recent years, fuelled by the thrift required in a recession, alongside a highly educated and eco-savvy generation. But we have not seen a treasure trove to compare to the authentic archives of Stewart Christie & Co, spanning three centuries of exquisitely tailored clothing, and we are very fortunate to have this quality of craftsmanship in our country.

Our vintage theme was set, now for that modern twist! Award-winning GSA graduate KellyDawn Riot is a highly sought after pioneer of a new wave of ethical fashion designers. Supported by the Love Your Clothes campaign and Zero Waste Scotland, she embarked on a 6 month mentorship with Queen of upcycling, Orsola De Castro. It was at this time she produced her second collection ‘Formication’, an ethical menswear collection consisting of artisanal engineered prints produced from­ start to finish in Scotland. Pieces are made using remnants from local Scottish mills or natural fabrics such as cottons and linens, making them strong and durable, while the eco friendly printing techniques and the attention to detail ensure that each piece is a treasure: inspired by nature, designed for life. We were thrilled to be able to showcase Kelly’s latest collection, fresh from the runway of Brighton Fashion Week, to a captive audience individuals actively participating in a lifestyle of sustainable clothing.

The evening was a triumph, as like-minded creatives gathered in celebration of our heritage, enhanced by contemporary thought.

Onward!
Gx

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Last week, we had the privilege of putting together and working with an incredible team of talented models, stylists, photographers, bloggers to produce the fashion shoot with our partners at Burt Greener for Edinburgh Fashion Week.
Now in its second year, Edinburgh Fashion Week (EFW) is making a highly anticipated return to the city next month to inspire Scottish shoppers and style connoisseurs. Hosted from Saturday 5th – Sunday 13th March, the must-attend annual event will showcase the hottest Spring/Summer looks, emerging designers and top retailers from across the city centre.

Our photoshoot for the campaign was fantastic fun, and despite the weather conditions on the day we were able to capture some amazing spring/ summer photo’s.

Photographer
Dominic Martin @domdommartin

Models
Tristan Cameron-Harper @tristancameronharper
Katy Matsetse @ktmtss
Simone Murphy @simonegmurphy
Paul Keenan @thekeenanone

Style Team
Lead Stylist
Emma Jane McVitie @ejmstylist

Hair Stylist
Sophie Laidlaw @sophielaidlawhair

Assistant
Conor Cullen @conorcullen

MUA
@jakmorganmakeup

Blog
Nicholas Policarpo @nicholaspolicarpo

Client
@edin_events

Production
Scot Street Style @scotstreetstyle

We received some wonderful coverage across National and Local media:

The Scotsman
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/fashion/moonwalk-organisers-stage-their-first-ever-fashion-show-in-edinburgh-1-4023803

Ion Magazine
http://www.ionmagazine.co.uk/edinburgh/win/win-vip-package-two-edinburgh-fashion-week/

We even got on the front page of The Edinburgh Evening News

Tickets to Edinburgh Fashion Week go on sale today (8th February) on the Essential Edinburgh website www.edinevents.com, with single show and VIP packages available. Prices range from free – £25 and early bird tickets will be available from 8th – 19th February.

In other news, Scot Street Style alongside Mark Greenaway, Colan Mehaffey from National Trust For Scotland, featured in the Marketing Edinburgh results of the city centre marketing campaign, This is Edinburgh.

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Click here to read the full article on the BBC website or copy and paste this link into your browser. http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160114-is-it-the-end-of-the-scottish-cringe

Excerpt

Today, young creatives are rehabilitating traditional textiles and designs. Siobhan MacKenzie and 21st Century Kilts, for example, re-interpret the kilt using unlikely fabrics like denim and leather. They are among the designers championed by Scot Street Style, who describe themselves as brand ambassadors for Scotland.
Scottish fashions (Credit: Credit: Alamy)
At left, Howie Nicholsby of 21st Century Kilts models his own designs; at right, Judy R Clark’s designs incorporate elements like Scottish lace and tartan (Credit: Alamy)
Scot Street Style was born in the year of the Referendum, says founder Gordon Millar. The vote “made people look at themselves and start to think, ‘what does it mean to be Scottish in the 21st Century?’”, he says.
He wanted to harness this energy into a positive movement. “Historically, we’ve had this sense of inferiority and this was an opportunity to smash that,” he says.

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