Ost End Girls contains winter essentials in the form of overcoats and cashmere track suits, a working wardrobe of painting coats and for the first time also summer wear. Dreaming of warm coastlines they present t-shirts and beach throws in delirious colours. The Grecian aesthetic celebrated in classic couture and motifs from Antiquity have been reimagined for their simple contemporary sportswear. The cashmere scarves and jewellery this season are souvenirs for something that never existed.
Atelier E.B. is the company name under which the artist Lucy McKenzie and the designer Beca Lipscombe sign their collaborative projects. At the heart of the collaboration is a desire to reinvigorate the pre-existing Scottish textile industry, and to successfully work within the bounds and limitations of its current declining state. While Atelier E.B. is, in fact, using a traditional approach that is respectful of historical information and research, it is also a completely radical approach, as it sets its own terms of production, dissemination, and discourse. Of utmost importance is their desire to work with local industry and independent producers and thinkers. Items are sold directly to individuals through a series of showrooms, keeping costs down and encouraging a relationship with the customer.
Their work to date includes commissioned display and interiors for public and private spaces, textiles, furniture, and publishing. In Glasgow, Atelier E.B. presented ‘The Inventors of Tradition’ (2011), an exhibition, catalogue and fashion collection that examined the legacy of Scotland’s textile industry. The collection was subsequently sold through a series of showrooms in Scotland, London, New York, Brussels and Berlin and is now worn all over the world.
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