The Glasgow-based design duo Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons joined forces in 1990. Here they tell us about how they updated a 200-year-old fabric style, and about their fascination with collections at the V&A. Junkies and vagrants replace traditional images of 18th-century French peasants in the Timorous Beasties' Glasgow Toile, an act of historical subversion by the Scottish textile designers.
MA Transdisciplinary Design
Monday, 23 April 2012
Timorous Beasties: Urban fabrics / Textiles / People / V&A Channel
The Glasgow-based design duo Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons joined forces in 1990. Here they tell us about how they updated a 200-year-old fabric style, and about their fascination with collections at the V&A. Junkies and vagrants replace traditional images of 18th-century French peasants in the Timorous Beasties' Glasgow Toile, an act of historical subversion by the Scottish textile designers.
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