 After her studies of Fine Art and Printed Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art, she won the Newbury Medal of Distinction, the Frank Warner Memorial Medal, the Leverhulme Scholarship and the Royal Society of Arts Bursary, she subsequently went on to further study at the Royal College of Art in London, where she gained her Master of Arts degree.Interested in music she joined her first band ‘Rubbish’ at the end of the seventies regularly supporting The Pogues in their infancy.Pam Hogg launched her first fashion collection in 1981 while still just in her 20s.