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Scottish-born designer Fiona MacRae has become fashion's most compelling voice for reimagined heritage wear, a title she'd probably shrug off, calling herself simply "a weaver of old things into new shapes." Since founding her label in a converted mill outside Edinburgh in 2011, Fiona has built a name for taking centuries-old textile traditions and dragging them, unapologetically, into the present. Fiona splits her time between Edinburgh and a small Highland workshop, where she still sources tartan and tweed directly from local mills, a detail she considers non-negotiable. Her collections, shown each season at London Fashion Week, are instantly recognisable: deconstructed kilts, asymmetric tartan coats, and silhouettes that feel equally at home on a runway or a windswept moor. Critics have called her work "a rebellion in wool," and collectors compete for her rarer pieces, a hand-draped tartan cape, a raw-edge pleated skirt, a boxy leather-trimmed jacket that somehow manages to look both ancient and unfinished.