Becca Libscombe, Co-founder Atelier E.B. & Mairi Mackenzie, Research fellow in fashion and Textiles
Mairi MacKenzie (Co-curator) is a fashion historian and curator based in Glasgow. She is Research Fellow in Fashion and Textiles at Glasgow School of Art, and a visiting lecturer at Liverpool School of Art and Design and Glasgow University. MacKenzie’s current research is concerned with the relationship between popular music and fashion; social and cultural histories of perfume; and the history of dressing up and going out in Glasgow. Her publications include Dream Suits: The Wonderful World of Nudie Cohn (Lannoo: 2011), Football, Fashion and Unpopular Culture: David Bowie’s influence on Liverpool Football Casuals (Routledge: 2019); The Inward Fragrance of Each Other’s Heart in ‘The Rose in Fashion: Ravishing’ by Amy de la Haye (Yale University Press, 2020): Perfume and Fantasy: Scent in Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Bloomsbury: Forthcoming). Her exhibitions include, Dream Suits at Mode Museum, Antwerp (2011) and Fashion Cultures Glasgow (2014, 2015). She recently acted as consultant curator for the current iteration of the Vitra Design exhibition, Night Fever: Designing Club Culture at V&A Dundee.
Beca Lipscombe (Co-Curator) (b. 1973, Edinburgh, lives and works in Edinburgh) is a fashion and textile designer, printmaker, and one half of Atelier E.B. A graduate of Central Saint Martins, Lipscombe’s professional practice is multi-layered and draws upon a vernacular aesthetic. This sensibility was evident in both her eponymous label (2000-2007) and her work as a freelance designer for various companies including Liberty, Chloe, Stella McCartney and Ann-Sofie Back. Until 2011 she taught on the MA Fashion+Textiles at The Glasgow School of Art stepping down from this post to concentrate on her own work and the work of her company Atelier E.B. which she runs in partnership with artist Lucy McKenzie (b. 1977, Glasgow, lives and works in Brussels). Lipscombe’s varied practice has included the production of fashion, commissioned display and interiors for public and private spaces, textiles, furniture and publishing.