Fashion

HUUB boss hails a new “pinnacle” as it agrees to supply Team GB’s age group triathletes

   The founder of Derby performance sporting apparel firm HUUB has described a new deal to supply Great Britain’s age group triathlon team as the “pinnacle for our company”. Dean Jackson says the ground-breaking partnership between HUUB and British Triathlon will put its Team GB age group athletes on an equal footing with the very […]

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Dundee charity transforms waste into fashion

Chika Inatimi, Christie Wanless and Amy Deans of FrontLounge, with Megan McKay from Little Peril Studio A Dundee charity changing lives through a clothes-making qualification has launched a project to turn Scottish designers’ waste material into fashion. Through Front Lounge, 34 learners have completed the SQA-accredited Kindred Clothing qualification since its launch in 2020, with

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Edinburgh designer’s Party Pants promise to be the perfect pair

The designer behind a new Edinburgh-based sustainable fashion brand has launched her first collection of Party Pants, a range of jazzy trousers with quirky trims after receiving a funding boost from the Start up Loans programme. Founded by Eilidh Gibson, a Glasgow School of Art graduate, the debut designs from the brand include three styles

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North East activewear brand celebrates investment success

Amazing Jane, a North East based activewear brand, specialising in designing clothes to boost confidence in women through different life stages such as having children, perimenopause, and menopause, is celebrating investment success after Laura Middleton, founder of The Office Rocks and Bump, Baby and You invests in the venture.  The brainchild of Debra De Luen

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UK FASHION BRAND BOUGHT OUT BY BIRMINGHAM INVESTOR

All 82 jobs have been saved after a Birmingham investor stepped in to buy British fashion brand Just Hype in a pre-pack administration deal. The Leicestershire-based business, which uses the Hype trade mark on its ranges, had suffered from a double whammy of overinvesting during and after the pandemic and a big hit from the

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SUSTAINABLE FASHION BRAND GAINS ROYAL BANK BACKING

Homegrown Scottish brand, Beira Moda is transforming perceptions of the sustainable fashion industry. Following a successful career as a fashion designer, Antoinette Fionda (pictured above) decided to launch her own brand in 2018 after getting frustrated with the lack of options available to environmentally minded consumers.   The label sources fabric off-cuts from some of

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SUSTAINABLE CLOTHING PRODUCER RAISES OVER A MILLION POUNDS TO KICKSTART FASHION REVOLUTION

Unfolded, the sustainable and ethical clothes production platform has raised £1.2 million to accelerate its mission to remove waste from the fashion industry and create a new sustainable way to shop for clothes.  The round has been led by Techstart Ventures with Solid Bond, FJ Labs, Sweet Spot Capital, Pareto Holdings, participating alongside leading angel

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PUPILS SHOW PASSION FOR FASHION

A pioneering clothes-making course designed for young parents has been adopted by a Dundee school to help boost engagement and aspiration amongst pupils. Kindred Clothing, run by Dundee charity Front Lounge, is delivered by a range of businesses within its Clothes Making Learning Partnership (CMLP).  Kindred Clothing takes learners through the key stages of the garment

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