In Conversation: Scott Schiavone & Amber Butchart - The Harris

Drawing on the world’s largest Horrockses collection at The Harris, Amber and Scott will discuss the exhibition’s curatorial process and accompanying book, exploring how a Preston-made label became a symbol of postwar British style. Discover how a Lancashire cotton mill became a label worn by the Queen, and how Horrockses put Preston on the fashion map.

About Amber Butchart
Amber Butchart is a curator, historian and broadcaster who specialises in the cultural and political history of textiles, dress and design. She has researched and presented documentaries for television and radio, including the six-part series A Stitch in Time for BBC Four that fused biography, art and the history of fashion to explore the lives of historical figures through the clothes they wore, and she is the resident historian for BBC One’s Great British Sewing Bee. She is a regular public lecturer, and is an external adviser for the National Crime Agency as a Forensic Garment Analyst, working on cases that require investigation of clothing and textiles. She’s the author of five books on the history and culture of dress, and she is currently a CHASE-funded PhD researcher in curating political textiles. Her exhibitions include The Fabric of Democracy at the Fashion and Textile Museum and Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style at the Design Museum, both in London.