The Community Brain (TCB) has held a number of events celebrating the history of fashion in Kingston this year, with the latest featuring a catwalk of outfits from the last 200 years at Waterloo Station.

After 10 months celebrating Kingston's fashion heritage, The Community Brain (TCB) is now looking to the future of glamour in the borough with a series of pop-up photo studios later this month.

Part of its year-long 60 Years of Fashion in Kingston project, the pop-ups will be open to the public with the aim of creating a photographic archive of local tastes and styles for the town's future residents.

Starting on Saturday, 11 October in the Bentall Centre, the studio will then head to the south of the borough, setting up in the Hook Centre for 24 and 25 October.

Attendees will receive a free photoshoot from a professional photographer, with the photos shared in an online gallery while the archive is underway. Visitors are encouraged to come dressed in their favourite outfits, or clothes they love but rarely have an excuse to wear.

While three dates have already been announced, there are hopes of further pop-up studios later in the year depending on public demand and venue availability.

The first pop-up studio will be held in the Bentall Centre alongside the shopping centre's Style in the Spotlight event, featuring talks from its top fashion stylist and flash mob shows with help from fashion students from Kingston School of Art.

Style in the Spotlight will take place in the Bentall Centre this Saturday, 11 October (Credit: Bentall Centre)

Once completed, the photos will be preserved as a historical record of Kingston's residents and the ways people dress in 2025.

TCB says it is currently looking for partners to help keep the body of work accessible for generations to come. The non-profit hopes the archive will help bring its work on the town's historical contributions to the fashion industry into the present and offer inspiration to Kingston's future designers and historians.

The timings of events are:

Bentall Centre — 10am - 2pm, 11 October 2025.

Hook Centre — 12pm- 4pm, 24 - 25 October 2025.

Find out more about The Community Brain's other events around the borough on its What's On page here.