From Scotland with love – Sir Sean donates catwalk kilt to charity auction

James Bond star Sir Sean Connery has donated a kilt he once paraded down the catwalk to a charity auction.

The Holland & Sherry kilt, worn by the former 007 agent at the Dressed to Kilt fashion show in New York City, was specially made in Peebles, the Borders, for Sir Sean in 2009.

It was due to go under the hammer last night at the Liberty Theatre in Times Square, New York, at a star-studded fashion show with the theme From Scotland With Love. The event is being held as part of the city’s Tartan Week celebrations.

Proceeds will be split between Radio Clyde’s Cash For Kids campaign, which helps around 100,000 vulnerable children across the west of Scotland every year, and US war veterans’ charity The Wounded Warrior Project.

Other items up for sale include a pair of trews made for Donald Trump, a dress worn by actress Andie MacDowell, a kilt worn by rugby legend Gavin Hastings and golfing plus-fours made for golfer Sam Torrance.

Every piece in the auction has a Scottish connection as they have all been worn at previous Tartan Week events.

In December, US-based charity Friends of Scotland, co-founded by Sir Sean, announced that Dressed to Kilt would not go ahead in 2012.

The charity said it had ended its relationship with “volunteer” Geoffrey Scott Carroll.

However, Dr Scott Carroll said a similar event, From Scotland With Love, was planned in place of Dressed to Kilt’s 10th anniversary. He said the name of the event was “actually irrelevant”.

The fashion show and cocktail party has a dress code of “New York cocktail attire with a Scottish accent”.