Inside the Glasgow Charity Fashion Show Theme Reveal
A lot can happen when a team of passionate, creative students joins forces for a great cause, and even the dreich Glasgow rain couldn’t keep guests away from the iconic Barras Market, where the Barras Art and Design (BAaD) venue played host to one of the city’s most exciting student-led cultural moments: The Glasgow Charity Fashion Show (GCFS) theme reveal.
This yearly event draws in crowds of students, creatives, designers, and supporters under the glass roof of BAaD to celebrate another year of fashion and charity. Guests were drawn into the space by live DJ sets, meaningful connections, and, bias acknowledged, the best tequila, courtesy of event sponsor CILLÍ: TEQUILA PICANTE.
There is something underrated about student-led, volunteer-run events going off without a hitch, but the team behind GCFS approaches their work seriously and with purpose. There is a real sense of pride at these events; they do themselves and the creative scene in Glasgow proud. The event was set up to encourage communication and connection, with long tables running the length of the hall, encouraging students to connect with designers, photographers with stylists, an event that truly valued community and charity over ego or status.
Saint, Sinner, Seamstress: ‘Play Filthy’ Threads its Own Path
In the heart of Glasgow’s growing creative scene, Cara Jarvis has been steadily building her fashion label Play Filthy; a brand as bold and uncompromising as the designer herself. Raw, subversive, and rooted in her personal narrative, Play Filthy has already dressed performers, had its own runway, collaborated with global stars like SZA, and carved out a place in Glasgow’s vibrant queer fashion community.
(Don’t) Stop Filming me Courtney: Paul Black on Virality, Class, and all things Glasgow
When Paul Black speaks, it’s as if Glasgow itself has picked up the mic: fast, self-aware, and never quite willing to take itself too seriously. He’s the kind of performer whose offhand catchphrases end up tattooed on fans, whose earliest “punk edits” on Tumblr made him internet-famous before he even showed his face, and whose Glaswegian humour now pulls in thousands who see their own lives reflected in his work. In conversation, Black moves between razor-sharp wit and moments of sincerity, weighing the chaos of viral fame against the realities of being a working-class artist from his home city.
“What You See Is What You Get”: Kira McCaffery on Growing Up, Going Viral and Staying Real
There’s a certain type of warmth that some people carry with them, a brightness that doesn’t beg for attention, but draws it anyway. Kira McCaffery, content creator and self-described “centre of attention Leo”, is exactly that kind of person. You hear it in the Glaswegian lilt of her laugh, the way she names her childhood teddy “Sharpay” after High School Musical’s finest diva, or how she tells you, quite frankly, that being on telly just felt right.