Team Scotland’s outfit designer has created a new fashion line out of leftover clothing scraps she’s gathered over the past decade. Siobhan Mackenzie designed the tartan uniforms worn by Scotland’s top athletes at the Commonwealth Games ’ opening ceremony last month.
The designer, who launched her self-named label in 2014, has told how her latest limited edition pure silk collection called ‘Repurpose’ is made entirely from cuttings of old tartans and prints. She says sustainability is part of the brand’s ethos and it was her dislike of waste that led her to keep offcuts of past orders, allowing her to accumulate a stock large enough to create her new range of kilts.
The designer, from the Black Isle in the Highlands, says she is determined to prove sustainability can be “sexy”.
