Amber Butchart

Amber Jane Butchart is a British fashion historian[1] and writer from Kessingland, Suffolk[2].

Butchart presented the BBC Four's A Stitch in Time, a six part documentary series which "explored the lives of historical figures through the clothes they wore"[3]. She also presented a segment in the BBC Documentary series Civilisations Stories entitled The First Refugees regarding the silk-weaving Huguenot community of Spitalfields.[4] [5]She is an associate lecturer at the London College of Fashion,[6] and was formerly head buyer for vintage clothing company Beyond Retro.[1] She has an MA in History and Culture of Fashion from the London College of Fashion, now part of the University of the Arts London.[6]

Butchart is a regular guest on BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour.[7] In January 2017 she appeared on Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity where her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was "the colour mauve".[8] She has also produced a two-part documentary for Radio 4 about the history of the vintage fashion industry entitled From Rags to Riches.[9]

She regularly hosts fashion events, including Puttin’ on the Glitz: Fashion & Film in the Jazz Age at the British Library in 2014.[10]

She is one half of DJ duo Broken Hearts along with Nisha Stevens.[11]

Selected publications

  • The Fashion Chronicles: Style Stories of History’s Best Dressed (2018, Mitchell Beazley ISBN 978-1784723811)
  • Fashion Illustration in Britain: Society and the Seasons (2017, British Library Publishing: ISBN 9780712352000)
  • The Fashion of Film: Fashion design inspired by cinema (2016, Octopus Books: ISBN 9781784721763)
  • Nautical Chic (2015, Harry N. Abrams: ISBN 9781419716195
  • Amber Jane Butchart's Fashion Miscellany: An Elegant Collection of Stories, Quotations, Tips & Trivia from the World of Style (2014, Ilex Press: ISBN 978-1781571385)

References

  1. 1 2 Jacobs, Bel (1 May 2013). "Amber Jane Butchart: My style can be described as art teacher meets Pat Butcher". Metro. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  2. ↑ Chapman, Thomas. "Fashion historian set to present BBC Four documentary series". Lowestoft Journal. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  3. ↑ BBC, Four. "A Stitch in Time Programme Page". BBC. BBC. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "A Stitch in Time". BBC Four. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "'Civilisations Stories' programme page".
  6. 1 2 "Teaching staff: Amber Butchart". London College of Fashion. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  7. ↑ Women's, Hour. BBC Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?filter=programmes&q=amber+butchart. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ "The Museum of Curiosity: Series 10, Episode 3". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  9. ↑ BBC, Radio. "From Rags to Riches". BBC Radio 4. BBC.
  10. ↑ Shillito, Sophia (21 April 2014). "Puttin' On The Glitz - Fashion & Film in the Jazz Age". Tyranny of Style: A closer look at costume design and the language of clothing. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  11. ↑ "Broken Hearts". Retrieved 16 June 2018.
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