Speaking.
Kassia St. Clair is an experienced public speaker and moderator. Public appearances include lectures at the Dallas Museum of Art, Tate Liverpool, the V&A and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as events at Hay and Chalke Valley History Festivals, Soho House and Christie’s.
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Upcoming events.
LIBERTY. Design. Pattern. Color.
A beautiful celebration of Liberty’s extraordinary range of innovative fabric designs, published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the icon of design and luxury.
Liberty—an icon of design innovation and luxury—is renowned internationally for fabric designs on silk, wool, cashmere, and, most famously, Tana Lawn Cotton. LIBERTY: Design. Pattern. Color. showcases 150 of the most striking and significant Liberty patterns, ranging from much-loved florals to bold and abstract designs and contemporary collaborations.
Published to mark Liberty’s 150th anniversary, this gorgeously produced book written by cultural historian and color expert Kassia St Clair places fabrics in the context of the store’s broader design history—from the retailer’s remarkable Tudor-revival building to posters, advertising, and branding. The volume presents the latest examples of Liberty design alongside prints, drawings, and samples from the company’s outstanding archive, telling an inspiring, century-long story of manufacturing quality and design excellence.
Kasia St Clair and Polly Mason, 'Liberty: Design. Pattern. Colour.'
Kassia St Clair, bestselling author of The Secret Life of Colour, and Polly Mason, Liberty’s Head of Design, join Sevenoaks Literary Festival to discuss 'Liberty: Design. Pattern. Colour.', which has been published to mark Liberty’s 150th anniversary. 150 of the most striking and significant Liberty patterns, ranging from much-loved florals to bold and abstract designs and contemporary collaborations have been brought together to tell the brand’s story. The book places fabrics in the context of the store’s wider design history.
Liberty: 150 Years of Fashion and Fabric
Join Kassia St Clair, author of Liberty: Design. Pattern. Colour. (Thames & Hudson, 2025), to discover how and why the department store became renowned internationally for fabric designs on silk, wool, cashmere and, most famously, Tana Lawn Cotton.
Liberty: Design. Pattern. Colour.
Join author Kassia St Clair, Liberty’s Managing Director Andrea Petochi and Design Director Mary-Ann Dunkley to delve into Liberty’s 150-year history, exploring the enduring influence of iconic patterns, to its rich archive of florals and abstracts.
In person tickets: https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/DVz4aVvZZQ/liberty-design-pattern-colour
Online tickets: https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/Aw3j0n93GW/liberty-design-pattern-colour-livestream
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-golden-thread-how-fabric-changed-history-with-kassia-st-clair-tickets-848349906407
The Race to the Future
The Race to the Future captures the birth of a new world through a global event — the Peking-Paris race in 1907. It covers many facets of transformation in the lead up to the First World War that help us understand our world today: the transition from horse economies to automobiles, Chinese history, the Russian revolution, American mass manufacturing, women and motoring, the evolution of the car and more!
The Race to the Future, Edge of the World Books
A talk about Kassia St Clair’s new book, The Race to the Future, at the Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance
The Race to the Future, Topping & Co., Bath
A talk about Kassia St Clair’s new book, The Race to the Future, at Topping & Company in Bath.
Five Colourful Histories
Come to Leighton House Museum for an exploration of the histories of five pigments, dyes and hues. Learn about the green that could have killed Charles Dickens before he wrote 'A Tale of Two Cities'; the molluscs that gave us royal purple; and the costly blue that entranced artists of the Renaissance.
WECS - Study Day
Kassia St Clair, cultural historian, gives a talk on the history of textiles at the West of England Costume Society
Art Talk: The Secret Lives of Colour
We are delighted that Kassia St Clair, author of top-ten bestseller The Secret Lives of Colour, is coming to Pegasus Art to give an illustrated talk. You may have heard snippets on Radio 4 when it was Book of the Week, you may have seen its colourful book cover in Waterstones – and now is your chance to delight in the hidden history of seventy five pigments, revealing fascinating historical and cultural facts that will bowl you over.