Professor Andrew Groves, Professor of Fashion Design at the University of Westminster, spoke to The Guardian on why the kilt’s popularity has been revived after presenter Claudia Winkelman appeared on the BBC series The Traitors in the timeless garment.
The article explores how the kilt, that has been around for years, keeps coming back into popularity, from the high street to luxury brands, such as Westminster’s alumna Vivienne Westwood turning the kilt into a punk staple.
On the hot fashion topic Professor Groves answer is that the kilt has the ability to “outlive its original function […] capable of being reinvented and reinterpreted by each new generation. It occupies a space outside of fashion that is seen as historical, romantic, and even folkloric; making it ripe for appropriation by fashion designers and then open to subversion.”
Read the full article on The Guardian website.
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