Fashion
The Skinny fashion guide for Scotland, the Northwest and London. We focus on new talent and emerging designers, offering unique access to graduate showcases and pop-up events in your area. Featuring fashion designers, the latest show previews and reviews, photography and fashion week coverage.
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DesignersBack in fashion: the return of Skinny Jeans
We bring back our fashion column from 2007 to speak to anonymous informants about Big Fashion's relationship with Scotland Read more »| 06 Oct 2025 -
PhotographyDare To Be Different with Crazy Color
We meet some of the DIY dyers involved in Crazy Color's Dye to Defy campaign and find out why self-expression through hair colour is so important to them Read more »| 09 Sep 2024 -
PhotographyFrom Shanghai With Love: Chinese Culture, Scottish Fashion
Fashion show and exhibition From Shanghai With Love continues to celebrate Chinese culture at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Read more »| 02 Sep 2019 -
IntersectionsBody Beautiful on fashion, diversity and representation
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland is the first of its kind to examine diversity within the fashion industry. We speak to its curator about assembling Body Beautiful Read more »| 06 May 2019 -
DesignersAce & Tate have eyewear for every side of you
With free eye tests in stores, a free home-try on service and prices starting at £98 for lenses and frames, looking good's never been so easy thanks to Ace and Tate. Read more »| 03 May 2018 -
Event PreviewsCelebrate Christmas with Topman
Christmas is on its way, and with that comes an array of events and nights out where you'll need to look your best. But how do you balance that need for new threads with the most expensive time of year? Topman has the answer. Read more »| 06 Dec 2016
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StudentsWear It So Well: Student Fashion Hacks
Make your own face masks out of porridge and PVA glue! Turn those jeans into really unflattering hotpants! Fed up of getting rubbish advice when it comes to saving money? Here at The Skinny we like to keep things a little more real Read more »| 15 Sep 2016 -
Designers
Comfort in Music
As much fun as it indubitably is, the Edinburgh Fringe can feel like a drain on many things. Your funds, for a start; a capital city caught in the grip of fe... Read more »| 01 Sep 2016 -
FestivalsXpoNorth: Jewellery designer Heather McDermott
Heather McDermott began selling her own jewellery at the tender age of 12 and hasn't looked back since. Ahead of her exhibition at XPo North, we learn a little more about her work and the influence of her Skye surroundings Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Designers
Spotlight: Lauren Eliza
Blurring the lines between fashion and art, Heriot-Watt graduate Lauren Eliza takes gender fluidity as the focal point for her new collection Read more »| 27 May 2016 -
Art
ECA Degree Show 2016: Performance Costume Design
From epic Icelandic folktales to Caryl Churchill's explorations of feminist power structures, this year's Performance Costume graduates explore a fascinating array of sources and themes Read more »| 16 May 2016 -
Photography
ECA Fashion Show 2016
Ahead of Edinburgh College of Art's annual runway presentation, we pick a few highlights from SHOW 2016 Read more »| 13 May 2016 -
Event Previews
Find Your Festival Style
Anyone who has ever navigated the choppy and changeable waters of planning the perfect festival wardrobe knows the distracting twinge of sartorial dread that... Read more »| 31 Mar 2016 -
Event Previews
Love Your Trainers? Laces Out comes to Liverpool
Whether you’re loyal to Air Max or worship at the altar of the Yeezy Boost, trainers have become status symbols, markers of signature styles, emblems of wider cultural trends – and are truly having a moment. Now there's even a trainer festival: Laces Out! Read more »| 02 Mar 2016 -
Event Previews
Edinburgh Fashion Week 2016: Style Capital
As Edinburgh Fashion Week returns, with the Edinburgh Charity Fashion Show in tow, we consider the event's individual flair and take a look at what's in store. Read more »| 02 Mar 2016