Walker Slater Draws on Borders Landscape for Autumn Winter Campaign
The Scottish tailoring house photographs its autumn and winter collection across the grounds of Thirlestane Castle, layering heritage with contemporary cuts in tweed and natural cloth.
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Grey tweed caps and checked blazers catch the autumn light across Lauderdale’s broad valleys. Walker Slater’s autumn and winter campaign unfolds across Thirlestane Castle, the 16th century stronghold that has belonged to the Maitland family for more than four centuries. The collection itself speaks to the same quiet durability: jackets in textured wool, trousers cut from natural cloth, knit layers in charcoal and burgundy that sit close enough to read the hand of their making.
Founded in 1989 in the Scottish Highlands village of Laggan, Walker Slater has built its reputation on understanding how cloth behaves against a working landscape. The brand approaches heritage not as something fixed but as a framework for making garments that respond to their moment. Tweed here loses any sense of costume. A blue houndstooth blazer reads as both contemporary and entirely sensible. A ribbed wool half zip in deep burgundy has the substance to keep out genuine cold whilst holding its shape across years of wear.
The Borders location carries its own intelligence. Thirlestane’s long stewardship by one family mirrors what Walker Slater seeks in its own work: garments designed to be worn, kept and lived in, built from natural materials shaped by genuine craft. Nothing shouts from these photographs. The aesthetic rests instead on the quiet authority of well made things set against a landscape that demands they perform.
Imagery courtesy of Walker Slater (@walkerslater).
