Glasgow Style Workshop

Join researchers Esther Draycott and Mairi MacKenzie for a drop in workshop about the personal style of all Glaswegians - present and past.

While Glasgow style is a term usually associated with Charles Rennie Mackintosh, it also informally refers to a phenomenon manifest in the people of Glasgow. Style is present in almost every aspect of culture in Glasgow, a city with a distinct vernacular of dress, language and gesture that is present in all aspects of everyday life. It is a phenomenon shaped by the city’s legacies of labour, migration, resistance and loss, imbuing the choices and routines of Glaswegians with traces of a long, rich history of creative expression. While there is evidence of the cultural importance of style in Glasgow – see the city’s 2004 ‘Glasgow: Scotland with Style’ campaign – there has been no formal investigation into the roots of that significance nor how it might operate as a tool of civic pride and regeneration.

You are invited to join us to discuss your own history of style in Glasgow and to bring any objects that represent or document what Glasgow style means to you. 

The material you might want to bring along include (but are not limited to):

• photographs
• letters
• newspaper clippings
• clothing
• memorabilia
• magazines
• company brochures
• catalogues
• domestic objects
• videos/film clips
• novels
• memoirs
• posters

It is not necessary to bring any of these objects to attend the session, but bringing along items will help Esther and Mairi with their research and steps towards developing a style archive for Glasgow!

Free event - All welcome! Just drop in.

Supported by the Sauchiehall Street Culture and Heritage District and Glasgow School of Art. 

- ette is Esther Draycott and Mairi MacKenzie.