Katie Braid
Katie Braid
Biography
Katie Braid is an award winning illustrator and fashion educator based in Edinburgh, emerging from the industrial echoes of Newcastle. She has spent the last decade working within woven textiles and fashion. Producing illustration and creative work for Scotland's oldest remaining artisan tartan mill, working with brands such as Ashley Williams, Charles Jeffrey, Arbikie Highland Distillery, Rolls Royce and Celine.
Braid’s work aims to explore the uneasy alliance between her working-class roots and the glamour of fashion. Armed with a palette of grime and grit, she conjures figures that are awkwardly cropped, their imperfections not mere blemishes but acts of questioning beauty ideals often associated with the industry. Through her immediate, mixed-media approach, Braid stages an uncomfortable conversation, forcing us to confront the cracks in the facade, the vulnerability beneath the couture, and the unspoken dialogues between tradition and trend.
In 2024 Katie's illustrative stop motion work won the 9th FIDA 'Fashion Illustration and Digital Arts', Reel and Shorts Award. With her work exhibited at The National Arts Club New York and Institute Marangoni Paris.
Presently Katie works part time at Edinburgh College of Art. (Edinburgh University) as a Fashion Illustration and Portfolio Teaching Fellow.
Selected Client List: V&A Dundee, National Museums of Scotland, Diptyque, Harrods Beauty, St. James Quarter Edinburgh, The Modern Calligraphy, Luath Press, Frontiers Women, all/WITHIN Magazine, RIXO, Sunday Girl Magazine, The Little Living Room, Edinburgh University, Amelia's Magazine. Openly supported by brands including Elena Velez, Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, Matty Bovan, Cambridge Satchel Company and Fashion Scout.
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