Dr Sian Weston

Biography

Sian Weston is author of The Changing Face of Burberry: Britishness, Heritage, Labour, and Consumption (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), which examines how this historic company rose from a semi-rural, craft-based industry in the nineteenth century to become a global fashion brand and cultural object in the twenty first century. Sian’s wider research focuses on consumer culture and gender, branding narratives, fashioned identities, access to design and fashion hacks, using and creating archives.

She has specialist skills in textile curation, and over twenty years’ experience of working within the creative sector, specifically at the London Printworks Trust, a specialist printed textiles resource aimed at professional designers working within the fashion industry. The organisation was a key part of Arts Council England’s craft portfolio, and here Sian commissioned new work from a range of creative practitioners including Hetain Patel, Simon Elvins, and Linda Florence, and worked collaboratively with artists including Glenn Ligon on From Brixton to the South Bank and Yinka Shonibare on Captain Cook's Ship in a Bottle, Fourth Plinth (Trafalgar Square)

Sian has co-developed curatorial projects with a range of significant National organizations including It’s Better to Travel with Arts Council England; Can Craft Make You Happy? with the Crafts Council; An Ideal Home with the V&A, and Pop! with the Hayward Gallery Public Programmes. She contributes to the Face, i-D, and Harpers’ Bazaar.