Milliner William Chambers to provide hat creation workshop

We can’t sing William Chambers’ praises highly sufficient at List Towers, and we’re not the only ones.

The young milliner regularly crops up on Scottish Fashion Awards shortlists, his attractively warped, intricate and fantastical creations have become catwalk accessories of option for Scottish fashion designs young guard.

His celebrity fans comprise the very fashion forward likes of Roisin Murphy.

Now he’s branching out into workshops, offering to enlighten you on techniques for building a simple headpiece of your own.

Basic materials are included in the price (£50 for six hours tuition), and you get to obtain your creation away with you at the end of the day, too.

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Isabella Blow’s group of McQueens, Treacys and Blahniks are going to auction

The auction of a lifetime is imminent to Christie’s London this September.

Isabella Blow’s clothing collection of over 90, yes 90, Alexander McQueen pieces, 60 Philip Treacy hats, and a variety of Manolo Blahnik shoes is going up for sale.

We can’t even envision spectacle of watching Isabella’s legendary wardrobe auctioned off or the high prices it’s sure to command.

We’d bet that Daphne Guinness will be one of the foremost buyers at this auction, as her love of McQueen and unconventional style make her the ideal inheritor of Isabella’s clothes.

Yet while the auction is a great way to remember the talent and innovation of Isabella and Lee McQueen, we’d much rather have them still creating than be selling off their treasures postmortem.

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Kiwi’s fashion design fit for UK’s new first lady

New Zealand designer Emilia Wickstead produced a wardrobe for Britain’s new first lady.

Auckland-born Wickstead, 27, designed the navy blue dress worn by Samantha Cameron, wife of newly-elected Prime Minister David Cameron, at their first photo chance at 10 Downing Street.

A previous recipient of a $10,000 Arts Foundation donation, Wickstead told the foundation she was eager to have her clothes in the public eye.

Wickstead moved to Milan as a youngster and went on to study at London’s prestigious Central St Martin’s college.

She had previously worked for fashion designers including Giorgio Armani, Luella, Proenza Schouler and Narciso Rodriquez, and her clothes have emerged in British Vogue and Tatler.

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