Amber Jane Butchart's Page

Amber Jane Butchart is a former Research Fellow at the Centre for Fashion, the Body and Material Culture, based at the University of the Arts, London, and has lectured in Cultural Studies at both London College of Fashion and the ICA. She is a freelance trend and design consultant and a regular contributor to leading trend forecasting company WGSN. Her research is featured on PYMCA, an archive of youth culture that spans back over the past seven decades, and she has also written for sites including Fashion156, which was recently selected for the Blog Portal of the British Fashion Council. Having spent seven years as Buyer and Trend Analyst for London’s largest vintage clothing store, Beyond Retro, she recently left to focus on being one half of the Broken Hearts – DJs, designers and cultural commentators (www.thebrokenhearts.co.uk).