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© Supplied by Claire Grainger PR A young Dundee mum with aspirations to be a star of the fashion industry has received her first big break as she helps design clothes for one of the country’s biggest retailers. Cerrys Duke, 21, will be a member of a team producing garments for Urban Outfitters in Edinburgh, after taking part in the successful local project Kindred Clothing. The project, which is run by Dundee charity Front Lounge, aims to provide young mums with the skills and confidence to create clothes for themselves and their children using sewing courses online. Kindred Clothing is s...

V&A Dundee to become Scotland’s centre for design The V&A Dundee museum is to become Scotland’s centre for design (Jane Barlow/PA) The V&A Dundee is to develop into a national centre for design over the next three years as Scotland recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. The museum will work in partnership locally, nationally and internationally to position design as one of Scotland’s greatest resources, and to develop the country’s design capacity. Supported by the Scottish Government, it will look at the role of design in Scotland’s long-term economic and social recovery from Covi...

Additional funding from the Scottish Government will help ensure V&A Dundee does not need to shed jobs as the effects of Covid-19 are felt.

THE V&A Dundee is to develop into a national centre for design over the next three years as Scotland recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.

© Kathryn Rattray Photography Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A group of young Dundee mums are fighting their lockdown blues by sewing. The group, all students on the Kindred Clothing course, have been creating clothes for themselves and their children during one-to-one sewing sessions with city charity Front Lounge, which celebrates its 20 th anniversary this year. As part of International Women’s Day and to kick off the anniversary ...