SCOTTISH FASHION AWARDS

Preparations are well under way for the third annual Scottish Fashion Awards set for Sunday 29th June at the magnificent Stirling Castle . As the dramatic highland mist falls and the red tartan carpet is rolled out, VIP guests can expect to see a host of international fashion players and style icons descend upon the ancient cobblestones. Released this week was the impressive list of global fashion players who have joined the 2008 judging panel. Fashion icon and front row devotee Daphne Guinness will join Brian Rennie, Dolly Jones, Brigitte Stepputis, Hilary Alexander, Kate Phelan, Janette Harkess, Gary Van Dis, Eric N Smith and Kate Phelan on the challenging panel. The question burning on fashionista's lips across the land will be who will walk away with the evening’s most coveted award? Watch this space!

We are thrilled to welcome the definitive on line fashion destination Vogue.com as an official sponsor for the 2008 event. Dolly Jones, Editor of Vogue.com and 2008 judge said: "I sat next to Christopher Kane at the Central Saint Martins graduate show in February last year – that's when it really struck me that Scotland was producing some of fashion's finest new talent. There was Kane himself – who had wowed everybody with his autumn/winter 2007-8 collection earlier in the week - and he spent the entire show whispering to me about his fellow Scots who were lining up on the catwalk in front of us: Louise Gray, Scott Ramsay Kyle and Jamie Bruski Tetsill – it was incredibly impressive. The third annual Scottish Fashion Awards is going to be a fitting celebration of Scotland's new and established talents – VOGUE.COM will be looking for more of the same: new ideas founded in the stylish heritage of a country that, let's face it, produced the family that gave us Alexander McQueen, too." www.vogue.com