Mairi
MacKenzie
Research Fellow
School of Design
biography
Mairi MacKenzie is a fashion historian and curator based in Glasgow.
She is Research Fellow in fashion History and Curating at The Glasgow School of Art, and a visiting lecturer at Liverpool School of Art and Design and Glasgow University. Mairi’s current research is focussed upon social and cultural histories of perfume; the history of dressing up and going out in Glasgow; and the relationship between clothing and identity in the life and work of the artist Steven Campbell.
She has curated exhibitions at Mode Museum, Antwerp, V&A Dundee and her most recent exhibition (co-curated with Beca Lipscombe) was ‘Dressing Above Your Station: Fashion and Textiles in the Life and Work of the Artist Steven Campbell’ a digital exhibition that took place in a virtual version of Tramway, Glasgow in 2022.
Research interests
Fashion history
Cultural history
Curating as research
Digital exhibitions
Archives
PGR supervision interests
fashion history, cultural history, social history, curating as research, digital fashion exhibitions, vernaculars of style in Glasgow, archives, cultural and social history of perfume.
Current PGR students
Haitang Zhang, 'A Museum of Intimate Space: House Museums and Speculative Displays', 2025 (passed with corrections)
Elodie Lemaire-Nowinski, 'Portrait of Women in Tartan: An enquiry inot the (in)tangible of the Scottish icon through women's voices, 2026 submission
