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Amber Butchart

Amber Butchart is a writer and broadcaster. She presented the six-part television documentary series A Stitch in Time (2018) for BBC Four. Her most recent books are The Fashion Chronicles (2018) and Fashion Illustration in Britain (2017). She lives in Margate, UK.

The fashion designer’s bold, geometric creations reference artists from Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner to Ljubica Sokić

BY Amber Butchart AND Roksanda Ilinčić |

From an MRSA Quilt to a Plague Dress, how artists are transforming the intersection of medicine and textiles

BY Amber Butchart |

From normcore’s resurrection of the hoodie to gorpcore’s luxe ‘into the woods’ aesthetic

BY Amber Butchart |

From Boudicca to the French revolution’s cockades, brooches have always been used to convey politically-charged messages

BY Amber Butchart |

From Miss Havisham’s wedding dress to Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Red Shoes’, why we’re so obsessed with murderous clothes

BY Amber Butchart |

How the space race revolutionized couture

BY Amber Butchart |

On the 500th anniversary of the birth of Cosimo I, what do the Medicis’ burial clothes say about fashion and influence?

BY Amber Butchart |

The politics of postwar couture: a new show at London’s V&A explores Dior’s revolution, alongside his love for British tradition

BY Amber Butchart |

With the current Anni Albers show at Tate Modern marking a resurgence in textiles, charting the changing perceptions of fabrics throughout art history

BY Amber Butchart |

How Hangzhou – home to the China National Silk Museum and Alibaba – is becoming synonymous with China’s desire to re-lux its image

BY Amber Butchart |