Amber Jane Butchart

Amber Butchart is a fashion historian working across cultural heritage, broadcasting and academia. She has contributed to productions for BBC 1 & 2, BBC Learning, Radio 4, Channel 4 and Sky Arts, from Making History and Woman's Hour to Great British Sewing Bee, and she presents a regular 'In Conversation' series at the V&A museum looking at issues concerning the clothed body in fashion and performance. She is an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical Studies at London College of Fashion, where she lectures across a number of areas concerning fashion, the body and contemporary culture, from the impact of blogging on fashion media to fashion and the grotesque. A former Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London, Amber has spoken on the cultural history of fashion at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, British Museum, Royal Academy, British Library, Wellcome Collection, British Film Institute, and is a regular on the SHOWstudio fashion week panels. Shot by Vogue as a girl with great British style, her interest in antique clothing was ignited by working as Head Buyer for vintage clothing company Beyond Retro, and for 5 years she was a regular contributor to leading trend analysis company WGSN. As the red-haired half of the Sony-nominated Broken Hearts DJ duo Amber has graced stages across the globe for the likes of Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood and Louis Vuitton. Amber is a member of the Royal Historical Society and the Association of Dress Historians.