Mairi MacKenzie

• Research Fellow
• Design-Fashion and Textiles

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The Scent of Roses: A Cultural History of Rose Perfumes

MacKenzie, Mairi (2024) The Scent of Roses: A Cultural History of Rose Perfumes. In: Roses by the Lake: International Symposium of the Rose in our Culture, 4-7 June 2024, Lake Orta, Italy.

Dressing Above Your Station: A Case Study of a Digital Exhibition on Fashion and Textiles in the Life and Work of the Artist Steven Campbell

MacKenzie, Mairi (2023) Dressing Above Your Station: A Case Study of a Digital Exhibition on Fashion and Textiles in the Life and Work of the Artist Steven Campbell. In: EFHA International Conference 2023 – FUTURE HERITAGE, 27-28 November 2023, Centraal Museum Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Dressing Above Your Station: Fashion and Textiles in the Life and Work of the Artist Steven Campbell

MacKenzie, Mairi and Lipscombe, Beca (2022) Dressing Above Your Station: Fashion and Textiles in the Life and Work of the Artist Steven Campbell. A virtual version of Tramway 2, 31 March - 26 June 2022 [Show/Exhibition]

The Scent of Roses: The Inward Fragrance of Each Other's Heart

MacKenzie, Mairi (2021) The Scent of Roses: The Inward Fragrance of Each Other's Heart. In: HORTI: COUTURE, The London College of Garden Design’s Autumn Conference, Saturday 9th October 2021, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Cambridge Cottage.

Night Fever: Designing Club Culture 1960-Today

MacKenzie, Mairi (2021) Night Fever: Designing Club Culture 1960-Today. V&A Dundee, Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, DD1 4EZ, 1st May 2021- 9th January 2022 [Show/Exhibition]

Teddy Girls by Ken Russell

MacKenzie, Mairi and Russell, Ken (2020) Teddy Girls by Ken Russell. In: Teddy Girls. Happy Dancer Books, London. ISBN 978-1-8382113-1-8

The Scent of Roses: ‘The inward fragrance of each other’s heart’

MacKenzie, Mairi (2020) The Scent of Roses: ‘The inward fragrance of each other’s heart’. In: Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion. Fashion and Textile Design . Yale University Press, London & New York, pp. 176-191. ISBN 9780300250084

Football, Fashion and Unpopular Culture

MacKenzie, Mairi (2019) Football, Fashion and Unpopular Culture. In: Invisible Men Conference, 29 October 2019, University of Westminster.

Football, fashion and unpopular culture: David Bowie’s influence on Liverpool Football Club casuals 1976-79

MacKenzie, Mairi (2019) Football, fashion and unpopular culture: David Bowie’s influence on Liverpool Football Club casuals 1976-79. In: David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom. Routledge. ISBN 9780367356750

Dressing Above Your Station: The Steven Campbell Trust Annual Lecture 2019

MacKenzie, Mairi and Lipscombe, Beca (2019) Dressing Above Your Station: The Steven Campbell Trust Annual Lecture 2019. In: Dressing Above Your Station: The Steven Campbell Trust Annual Lecture 2019, 12 June 2019, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD.

Football, fashion and unpopular culture: David Bowie’s influence on Liverpool Football Club casuals 1976-79

MacKenzie, Mairi (2019) Football, fashion and unpopular culture: David Bowie’s influence on Liverpool Football Club casuals 1976-79. Celebrity Studies, 10 (1). pp. 25-43. ISSN 1939-2397

Perfumatic: The Role of Chanel No. 5 in the Construction of Migrant Biographies

MacKenzie, Mairi (2017) Perfumatic: The Role of Chanel No. 5 in the Construction of Migrant Biographies. In: Dress and Biography: Exploring Narratives Through Clothing, 23-24 November 2017, Royal Pavilion & Museums and the University of Brighton.

“You smell like a whore”: pungent scents, questionable character and the rise of power perfumes in the 1980s.

MacKenzie, Mairi (2016) “You smell like a whore”: pungent scents, questionable character and the rise of power perfumes in the 1980s. In: Costume Colloquium V: Restraint and Excess in Fashion and Dress, 17-20 November 2016, Auditorium al Duomo, Florence, Italy.

The Seine Net Queens: A Raw History

MacKenzie, Mairi (2016) The Seine Net Queens: A Raw History. Other. Timespan Museum and Arts Centre / Panel.

Working for Biba

MacKenzie, Mairi (2015) Working for Biba. National Galleries Scotland, 15th October 2015 [Show/Exhibition]

Perfumatic

MacKenzie, Mairi (2015) Perfumatic. In: Material Culture in Action: Practices of making, collecting and re-enacting Art and Design, 7-8 Sep 2015, The Glasgow School of Art.

Fashion Cultures 2015

MacKenzie, Mairi (2015) Fashion Cultures 2015. Glasgow Life, Merchant City Festival.

‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’: Bowie, Football and Fashion in Liverpool 1976-79

MacKenzie, Mairi (2015) ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’: Bowie, Football and Fashion in Liverpool 1976-79. In: Textual Fashion Conference, 8-10 Jul 2015, University of Brighton, UK.

Emulating Bowie: Football, Fashion and ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’

MacKenzie, Mairi (2015) Emulating Bowie: Football, Fashion and ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’. In: 84th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, 2-3 Jul 2015, Senate House, University of London; Victoria and Albert Museum, UK.

Fashion Cultures 2014

MacKenzie, Mairi (2014) Fashion Cultures 2014. Glasgow Life, City of Glasgow.

Visualising the Rite: Glasgow School of Art and the Cultivation of Cross-Disciplinary Practice

MacKenzie, Mairi and O'Neill, Kimberly (2013) Visualising the Rite: Glasgow School of Art and the Cultivation of Cross-Disciplinary Practice. In: Revisiting the Rite: The Rite of Spring Centenary Conference. Rivendale Press.

Visualising the Rite: Glasgow School of Art and the Cultivation of Cross-Disciplinary Practice

O'Neill, Kimberley and MacKenzie, Mairi (2013) Visualising the Rite: Glasgow School of Art and the Cultivation of Cross-Disciplinary Practice. In: Revisiting the Rite: The Rite of Spring Centenary Conference, 29 May 2013, Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

The Scottishness of Scottish Dress

MacKenzie, Mairi (2012) The Scottishness of Scottish Dress. In: The Inventors of Tradition. Koenig, London. ISBN 3863350529

Dream Suits: Designs by Nudie Cohn featuring the collection of Bobbejaan Schoepen

MacKenzie, Mairi (2012) Dream Suits: Designs by Nudie Cohn featuring the collection of Bobbejaan Schoepen. Mode Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, OCTOBER 28, 2011 - FEBRUARY 12, 2012 [Show/Exhibition]

Dreamsuits: The Wonderful World of Nudie Cohn

MacKenzie, Mairi (2011) Dreamsuits: The Wonderful World of Nudie Cohn. Lannoo, Tielt, Belgium. ISBN 978-90-209-6046-4