Lynne Coleman (Chair) is an author specialising in Scottish textiles and one of the country's leading fashion experts. She has worked with brands such as Burberry, Chanel, Mulberry, Liberty of London and Harvey Nichols, as well as championing a wealth of young design talent in her career as a fashion writer and style columnist at the Edinburgh Evening News, and in-house stylist for Scotland on Sunday.

You can frequently find her at the BBC, be it BBC Breakfast, Five Live, Radio 4 or Radio Scotland as their go-to fashion girl.

Her line of work has led her to roles across media and textiles. She currently resides over the identity of the world’s only hand crafted tartan mill DC Dalgliesh as their brand guardian and has her own knitwear line called Cross Cashmere.

Jonathan Faiers is Professor of Fashion Thinking, University of Southampton, U.K. and consultant curator for the Tartan exhibition. His research focuses on the interface between culture, textiles and fashion.

Jonathan has published widely on his subject including Tartan (Bloomsbury Publishing) which provided the inspiration and critical framework for the exhibition at V&A Dundee, Dressing Dangerously: Dysfunctional Fashion in Film and Fur: A Sensitive History (Yale University Press).

Kirsty Hassard is a curator, and fashion historian, and co-curator of Tartan at V&A Dundee, and previously worked in the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion department at V&A South Kensington.

Kirsty has worked on a range of exhibitions including Night Fever: Designing Club Culture, Mary Quant at V&A Dundee, and Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion at V&A South Kensington. She has published on women and work, and the relationship between fashion and print culture in the eighteenth century.

Dr Mhairi Maxwell is one of the co-curators of Tartan, while other projects and exhibitions include Scottish Design Relay, Studio Nicholas Daley, Mary Quant and Sincerely Valentines: From Postcards To Greetings Cards.

Starting her career as an archaeologist, she is now Curator of Modern and Contemporary History at National Museums Scotland. Mhairi has previously held posts at Glasgow School of Art and V&A Dundee, has experience in young people and community engagement, exhibition curation, design and development, and has published on themes of identity, creativity, belonging and material culture.

James Wylie is Assistant Curator at V&A Dundee, with previous experience in curatorial practice with Angus Museums & Galleries.

Wylie is co-curator on Tartan, V&A Dundee's first major in-house temporary exhibition and has previously worked on exhibitions Assemble: Making Room, Sincerely, Valentines: From Postcards to Greetings Cards, as well as Stories from the Building.