Designers, Dresses & Dazzle: Fashion’s Big Moment
Fun Fact!
The zipper was invented in 1893, but it took 20 years before people started using it on clothes! Before zippers, people used lots of tiny buttons, hooks, or laces to close their jackets and dresses.
🎨 A new tartan was made just for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games! It has blue, pink, and purple colors on a grey background, inspired by Glasgow's shipbuilding past.
👗 A designer named Siobhan Mackenzie made the tartan. She will also design special tartan clothes for Team Scotland’s athlete.
🧵 Tartan is a colorful, checked fabric from Scotland.
People have used it for hundreds of years to make kilts and scarves. There are now about 7,000 different tartans!
🎭 The new tartan will be used for the Games’ mascot’s clothes.
We’ll find out who the mascot is later this month!
🏅 The Commonwealth Games will happen in Glasgow from July 23 to August 2, 2026. There will be 10 sports, like swimming, running, basketball, and gymnastics.
👗 A designer named Siobhan Mackenzie made the tartan. She will also design special tartan clothes for Team Scotland’s athlete.
🧵 Tartan is a colorful, checked fabric from Scotland.
People have used it for hundreds of years to make kilts and scarves. There are now about 7,000 different tartans!
🎭 The new tartan will be used for the Games’ mascot’s clothes.
We’ll find out who the mascot is later this month!
🏅 The Commonwealth Games will happen in Glasgow from July 23 to August 2, 2026. There will be 10 sports, like swimming, running, basketball, and gymnastics.
👗 Big fashion houses like Chanel and Dior showed off new clothes at the Venice Film Festival instead of waiting for fashion week.
🚤 Stars wore these outfits on red carpets and even on gondolas, making the city feel like a giant runway.
🌟 Famous actors like Tilda Swinton, Amanda Seyfried, and Timothée Chalamet wore “sneak peek” looks before the official shows.
♻️ Sharing clothes made headlines too Julia Roberts and Amanda Seyfried wore the same Versace outfit, which people called fun and eco-friendly.
🎬 Just like movie trailers, these fashion previews get people excited for what’s coming next at big fashion shows in Paris and beyond.
Fun Fact
- Each Scottish clan traditionally has its own unique tartan pattern. These patterns were once used to identify which family or region someone belonged to!
- Fashion houses spend up to £2 million on a single red carpet look for A-list celebrities
- Gondolas in Venice are traditionally painted black by law, making them perfect backdrops for colourful fashion