Experience

Katie is an experienced fashion artist and educator, who leans upon her background in design, brand building and heritage to deliver authentic brand responses and visual conversations with clients. Having cut her teeth on the shopfloor, she revels in the buzz of live events, surprise and delighting customers with her illustration and creative works.

In 2024, Katie was the recipient of the FIDA 'Fashion Illustration and Digital Arts' Award for her illustrative stop-motion work. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including group shows at The National Arts Club in New York, Institute Marangoni Paris, and London College of Fashion Wolfson Gallery. Work featuring in publications including The FIBLE 4:The Fashion Illustration Book (Patrick Morgan),  The Fible Triptych v.03 (Patrick Morgan) and How Scotland Dressed the World (Lynne Coleman, Luath Press).

An alumni of Edinburgh College of Art, on completion of her MA in Fashion Design, Katie worked in varied roles across the fashion and textiles industry before returning to ECA in a teaching capacity as part time Fashion Portfolio and Illustration Teaching Fellow. Katie supports all years within the Fashion UG programme. Externally Katie has delivered drawing workshops and teaching for V&A Dundee, Dovecot Studios, The National Museums of Scotland and The Modern Calligraphy Co.

Katie Braid is an award-winning fashion illustrator and educator based in Edinburgh. Concerned with human touch and tactility, her work often created using smears of oil pastel, a slick of ink or crisp cut of paper.

Selected Clients

V&A Dundee - National Museums of Scotland - Diptyque - Harrods Beauty - Jo Malone London - Dovecot Studios - KILTANE - St. James Quarter Edinburgh - Iolla - The Modern Calligraphy - Luath Press - RIXO - Frontiers Women - Iolla - Laura Thomas Co. - all/WITHIN Magazine - Sunday Girl Magazine - Edinburgh University - D.C. Dalgliesh Ltd - Amelia's Magazine.

Openly supported by brands including Elena Velez, Gray M.C.A Gallery, With Love Halston Foundation, Festival of Fashion, Hood Magazine, Chapal, Cambridge Satchel Company, FIDA and Fashion Scout. 

Available for:

Illustration

Workshops

Live Drawing

Teaching

Public Engagement workshops/panel discussion - galleries and museums

Corporate and influencer engagement creative workshop building

Hand drawn lettering design

Brand Building

Design Consultation

InDesign Edits and layout design

Garment flats

Personal themes of Illustrative Enquiry

Katie’s illustrative work seeks to open conversation around traditional notions of beauty and unrealistic body depictions typically associated with the drawn fashion image. Katie takes an expressive approach to the drawn fashion figure, celebrating the imperfection, individuality and vulnerability of the direct mark. Her work an exploration of the limited parameters historically associated with fashion illustration and progressing a much more inclusive and authentic approach to who is seen in the drawn fashion image.

Selected Exhibitions

2026  “SSA 127th Annual Exhibition, 30x30”, Group, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

2025  “The Thread That Pulls, Visual Arts Scotland, Group, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

2024 “SSA 126th Annual Exhibition, 30x30”, Group, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

2024    “Unseen Fashion Faces & Figures”, LCF x Cass Art, Group, London College of Fashion UAL, UK

2024    “Best of the 9th Awards”, Group, Fida Arts Gallery, UK (catalogue)

2023    "50th Anniversary of Le Grand Divertissement Fashion Show Versailles '73", Group,  L'instituto Marangoni, Paris, FR

2023    "Fida in Paris", Group, Fida Arts Gallery, UK

2022    "With Love Halston", Group, The National Arts  Club,  New York, US (catalog)

Awards 

2024     FIDA Worldwide Fashion Illustration and Digital Awards (Reels and Shorts Category), Award Winner

2024    People of CAHSS Recognition Award (Creative Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences), Edinburgh University, Rising Star Award Winner

2025 Dots x Circles Illustration Awards (Fashion Illustration Category), Finalist

2023     FIDA Worldwide Fashion Illustration and Digital Awards (Culture Vulture Category), Commended Finalist

2022     FIDA Worldwide Fashion Illustration and Digital Awards (Still Life Category), Commended Finalist

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Katie offers a range of creative service designed to meet your needs— these include but are not limited too:

    • Teaching and workshops exploring drawing techniques and fashion illustration/design. From beginners level to UG.

    • Live events/brand activation, illustrative personalisation (initials, monogramming and modern calligraphy).

    • Live style sketches and portraits for events ranging from 5-8 minutes per portrait.

    • Bespoke fashion sketches and portrait commisions.

    • Editorial and illustration for publication.

    • Illustrative work for website and social channels.

    • InDesign edits and layout design

    • Bespoke brand illustration and hand drawn lettering design elements.

  • Simply drop me an email through my contact form.

  • You can reach me anytime via my contact page or email. I always aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.

  • Pricing is based on project type and complexity. With live creative monogramming beginning at £70.00per hour.

    *Please note live work has a 3 hour minimum booking.

  • Katie is Edinburgh based but regularly works across Scotland and UK.

Logo featuring a stylized "H" followed by the word "beauty" in brown text on a white background. Harrods Beauty
Red circle with the word 'iolla' in lowercase white letters in the center.
V&A Dundee logo, featuring the letters 'V&A' with 'Dundee' to the right.
"With love, Halston" handwritten text with a red heart drawing.
Diptyque logo with black text on white background
Logo of St James Quarter with white text on a dark blue background.
"The Modern Calligraphy Co." logo in a pink circle with white text, mentioning Kirsten Burke and established in 1997.
Logo of National Museums Scotland with a stylized design next to the text.
Cursive text reading 'Sunday Girl' on a white background.
Logo with the word 'fida' in lowercase red letters on a white background.
Jo Malone London logo in black text on a white background.
Fashion Scout logo with stylized cross symbol
Logo with letters 'MW' and 'FRONTIERS' inside a black circle
Rixo logo on a dark green background
The letters "ssa" followed by a period in bold, gray font on a white background.
Silhouette of a dog herding on grassy terrain with mountains in the background, enclosed in an oval frame.
Black text on a white background reading 'LT. CO' with 'LT.' at the top and 'CO' below, separated by space.
Pink background with white handwritten-style text reading 'VAS'.
Logo for Dovecot Studios with an abstract dove and the text 'Dovecot Studios'.
Stylized letter 'K' in black on a white background.

Keep up to date...

Streetstyle sketches bits from a while ago, scanned into the digital world. 5-8mins a piece.
I'm back at Dovecot Studios for a wee summer drawing sessionin June....come draw some Biba with me! Biba Inspired, Simple Fashion Design Sketch 10:30 – 14:00, 20 June 2026 "This workshop is an introduction to simply drawing the traditio
Introducing the ones who got away.......... Well I did promise! (These may have been sat in my camera over a week 🤪)
THIS! Still not over it. Live illustrating the most stylish guests for V&A Dundee CATWALK The Art of the Fashion Show. Thank you for serving looks, chatter, inspiration, kind words and dancing. A buzz only to be compared to drawing backstag
'SEE STYLE DIFFERENTLY WITH IOLLA' Two gorgeous days instore and one digital billboard gif. Bespoke live brand activation for @iolla to celebrate Edinburgh Style @stjamesquarter . Bespoke artwork created for digital billboard gif and fashion illus
Dovecot Studios 21.03.26 Fashion Drawing for Beginners Workshop, taking inspiration from Drawing on Style: Original Fashion Illustration. Thank you wonderful workshop guests, I loved meeting you all and watching you make your mark. A room full of
Responses to Phoebe English - Lost Touch AW26. This was so beautiful, the delicately hinged snowdrops and jittering foxgloves, a breath of fresh air in a long dark February. Also my favourite colour palette to draw with, a dream. *Just as well I