Visitors check out new Tartan exhibition at V&A Dundee

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Image caption, Supermodel Eunice Olumide wears a tartan by Scottish designer Charles Jeffrey, whose work features in the new exhibition

Tartan, the first major exhibition in Scotland for 30 years to focus solely on the iconic textile and pattern, has opened at Dundee's V&A Museum.

The show, which runs until January, features more than 300 objects including items from the worlds of fashion, architecture, graphic design, film, performance and art.

The exhibition also includes a scrap of fabric found in a Highland peat bog which is likely to be the oldest tartan ever discovered in Scotland.

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Image caption, Gerard M. Burns' portrait of the late Doddie Weir, which was loaned to National Galleries of Scotland by the Weir family in 2019, is on display at the show

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Image caption, Vivienne Westwood Anglomania suit with jacket, waistcoat, kilt and trews. The kilt ensemble in Westwood's own modified Red Anderson fashion tartan encapsulates the designer's punk edginess coupled with attention to fine tailoring

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Image caption, XBox UK partnered with Gordon Nicolson Kiltmakers and Lochcarron of Scotland in 2022 to create an official Xbox tartan, marking the 20th anniversary of the console's launch in Scotland

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Image caption, Christian Hook's portrait of actor Alan Cumming was the winning commission for the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of The Year 2014 competition

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Image caption, Actor and tartan ambassador Graham McTavish sits inside a limited edition 1976 Caledonia Hillman Imp car

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Image caption, A pair of woman's wool, leather boots from the 1850s has been loaned by the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

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Image caption, Fashion designer Nicholas Daley shows off his own tartan at the launch of the exhibition

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Image caption, The show includes this poster of The Queen of Scots by Reginald Mayes

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Image caption, Yoga teacher Finlay Wilson wears the Kilted Yoga tartan at the exhibition
Image caption, Maria Grazia Chiuri, the first female head of fashion house Dior, designed this T-shirt and skirt ensemble

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Image caption, Detail of 18th Century tartan for an Ancient Caledonian Society coat

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Image caption, British artists The Singh Twins' work draws on traditional Indian and contemporary Western culture

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Image caption, The exhibition runs at V&A Dundee until January

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