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Fiona Chautard

Fiona is a qualified business coach, experienced mentor and adviser to the creative industries with a specialism in fashion, textiles and design.

She is the specialist industry adviser for fashion, textiles and retail at Textiles Scotland, Cultural Enterprise Office and Fashion Foundry where she advises & mentors creative businesses and individuals. She is a mentor for the Craft Council and Fashion Foundry and serves on advisory boards at Caledonian University and Textiles Scotland.

Fiona is passionate about creativity and enterprise. In 2012 she founded and established Fashion Foundry, a sector specific designer fashion and textiles business incubator & talent hub for designers in Scotland, funded by Creative Scotland.

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Thank you to everyone who contributed, visited and generally cheered from the sidelines in support of my first ever Open Studios event in St Monans last weekend. I enjoyed it so much I’ve agreed to do it all over again on 7th & 8th Septem
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