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The students and retailers gather at ECA for their first meeting. Image: Tony Marsh Film & Photography

Tony Marsh Film & Photography

Leading retailers collaborate with fashion students

The partnership with luxury shopping destination Multrees Walk will offer a window on the commercial fashion world.

Matt, wearing sunglasses, a grey hoodie and a backpack, stands in the middle of a busy shopping street. He is next to a tall metal pole covered in stickers.

Matt with a sticker-covered lamppost at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin

Exploring Europe with the Professor Les Mitchell Travel Award

The award, set up in memory of the late ECA Professor, has supported its first recipient, Matt Butler, to travel through Europe, exploring design, art and culture.

Against a white backdrop, Casey, wearing a black suit, stands as a model walks past, wearing her gold draped mini dress.

Casey (right) and her winning design

Casey wins 'M&S: Dress the Nation'

Fashion alumna Casey Dillon now has her gold mini dress on sale at M&S, after winning the ITV competition.

Poster for Harvest Contemporary Craft Fair. The images shows silver-coloured jewellery lying on a bed of moss.

Harvest Contemporary Craft Fair runs from 11-19 October

Craftwork and painting by ECA alumni on show in Edinburgh and London

Craft Scotland’s HARVEST: Contemporary Craft Fair, and the Affordable Art Fair Battersea, offer the chance to see the work of ECA alumni.

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Research

ECA research podcast: Artful Inquiry

Explore the cutting-edge research shaping our world in the Edinburgh College of Art podcast.

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Research

Research as inquiry and experiment

ECA is a vibrant and internationally-engaged interdisciplinary hub for creative innovation embedded within the world-leading University of Edinburgh.

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A photo of Charlene Scott's work displayed at the 2023 Graduate Show, on an off-white wall. Four framed artworks are side-by-side, each in a neutral, off-white tone, with different textures and patterns.

Image: Charlene Scott

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Seminar Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series Frame, Fortress, Fenestration: The Architectural ‘Enframings’ of Rwanda’s Forests, 1904 -2022 Join us for the next Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series of 25/26 by Killian Ó Dochartaigh.

Dr Killian Ó Dochartaigh

3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1HR

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Performance / concert Open Mic Night Open Mic Night - October Join the Reid School of Music for an evening of original music, live at the Wee Red Bar!

Wee Red Bar, ECA Main Building and Hunter Building, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF

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Open Day Postgraduate Open Day 2025 Join us at our postgraduate open day

Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF