Born in Dundee, Catherine Aitken was surrounded as a child with a kilt-making uncle, a grandmother who taught her to sew at the age of nine and relatives who loved to wear mohair and tweeds, so it should come as no surprise that Catherine went on to develop a love of tartans and traditional Scottish textiles later in life.

"All the muted and jewelled colours of our gorgeous Scottish textiles, emulate the Scottish landscape while making you think of everything from the elegance of country ladies to that glorious Brigadoon notion of Scotland", Catherine says.

By her thirties, Catherine had made her name as a film producer, and had started producing handbags as a promotional tool for her company. With so many people asking where they could buy the distinctive designs, however, she was finally prompted to set up her own label, establishing the Catherine Aitken Scotland online boutique in Edinburgh in 2004.

Though Catherine keeps the names of her celebrity clients to herself, her designs - which also reference the faded romanticism of antique postcards and images of Scotland - carry more than a hint of old-style glamour, and have recently been seen at some very starry events.

Catherine made her Munro and Kilt bags in our exclusive St. Andrew's Cross, Adapted to help launch Thistle & Broom at Dressed to Kilt 2005 where Darius was seen sporting one - perhaps you've seen "the no.3 picture"?