The Art Newspaper

Tilda's darned twinset at the Serpentine

By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 23 February 2010

The Serpentine Gallery was awash with hip Scots this week as posh fashion label Pringle launched its 195 limited edition knits designed by the likes of Turner Prize winners Richard Wright and Douglas Gordon. However all eyes were on Tilda Swinton, the new face of Pringle, who returned to her roots for inspiration: “My Pringle,” she announced “is inspired by grand Scottish ladies—I inherited a stash of my grandmother’s old twinsets, darned and covered in fag burns.” Her version is a bottle green number encrusted with silver brooch and buttons by American Sikh jeweller Waris Ahluwalia and adorned with darns, stitched by Tilda herself, proving that the fabled thrift of the British upper classes is in fact an expression of haute couture. Tilda’s “Twinset of my Dreams” in an edition of 195, will retail this autumn at around £1,500.