NEWS| Pam Hogg, Jennifer Morris and Lauren Smith win at Scottish Fashion Awards 2013

We were thrilled to hear that two Fashion Scout designers were awarded with accolades at last night's Scottish Fashion Awards. Jennifer Morris picked up the award for Scottish Young Designer of the Year whilst Pam Hogg was awarded with the Creative Excellence gong. In addition, Graduate Showcase designer Lauren Smith (who won the Graduate Fashion Week Gold award in July) was presented with the Scottish Graduate of the Year achievement. 

Pam Hogg was as zany as ever with her acceptance speech, read the full story on Telegraph Fashion, which reference to her past two shows at Fashion Scout. 

By Cass Gowing, Editor, @CassGowing

Images from Scottish Fashion Awards

NEWS| Scottish Fashion Awards 2013 nominees Pam Hogg, Jennifer Morris and Liz Black

Tonight, the 8^th annual Scottish Fashion Awards takes place in London’s Dover House. Hosted by Fashion Scout front row regular Laura Whitmore a number of high profile names are amongst the shortlist, which includes Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders, Louise Gray and Fashion Scout designers Pam Hogg. Liz Black and Jennifer Morris.

Pam Hogg and Liz Black are nominated for the Creative Excellence accolade, whilst Jennifer Morris is up for the Young Designers award.

The event will provide an incredible platform for Scotland’s finest designers, emerging talent, textile manufacturers, and fashion players for the nations most high profile celebration of fashion and style; and the Awards shine a global spotlight on Scottish work and honour those high profile global brands that continue to use Scottish cashmere and textiles within their own collections.

The event is renowned for its string of high profile guests to include celebrities, models, designers, fashion figures and dignitaries; and this years finalists will be judged by a panel of leading fashion professionals, including 2012 Fashion Ambassador award winner Colin McDowell.

Best of luck to all nominees but particularly to our designers (yes we're biased!)

By Cass Gowing, Editor. @CassGowing

Photographs by Tracy Asslanian, from Jennifer Morris' Lookbook and Jamike Latif

NEWS| Jennifer Morris, Liz Black and Pam Hogg nominated at Scottish Fashion Awards 2013

This week has seen the announcement that the 8^th annual Scottish Fashion Awards extravaganza will take place in London’s answer to picturesque Scottish heritage; Dover House, a magnificent Grade 1 listed Georgian Mansion, on Wednesday October 9^th 2013. Whilst the event will be hosted by awards founder Dr Tessa Hartmann and Scottish Secretary of State, Michael Moore MP; a number of high profile names are amongst the shortlist, which includes Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders, Louise Gray and Fashion Scout designers Pam Hogg. Liz Black and Jennifer Morris.

Pam Hogg and Liz Black are nominated for the Creative Excellence accolade, whilst Jennifer Morris is up for the Young Designers award.

The event will provide an incredible platform for Scotland’s finest designers, emerging talent, textile manufacturers, and fashion players for the nations most high profile celebration of fashion and style; and the Awards shine a global spotlight on Scottish work and honour those high profile global brands that continue to use Scottish cashmere and textiles within their own collections.

The event is renowned for its string of high profile guests to include celebrities, models, designers, fashion figures and dignitaries; and this years finalists will be judged by a panel of leading fashion professionals, including 2012 Fashion Ambassador award winner Colin McDowell.

In addition to the awards already released, a series of special awards including the ‘Hall of Fame, ‘Fashion Ambassador’, ‘Fashion Innovator of the Year’ and a new ‘Founders Award’ will be revealed in October at the presentation in London.

By Brooke McCord, @BrookeMcCord

NEWS| Good luck to Jennifer Morris at the Scottish Fashion Awards 2012

The Scottish Fashion Awards 2012 ceremony will be taking place this evening and we wish Vauxhall Fashion Scout designer Jennifer Morris the best of luck! 

The designer is up for the ‘Scottish Young Designer of the Year’ award at this year’s Scottish Fashion Awards. The ceremony, which takes place at The Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow and is hosted by Alexa Chung, acknowledges influential Scotish fashion figures and acts as a platform for emerging Scottish designers.

The nominations for the Scottish Young Designer of the Year award, sponsored by Scottish Fashion Council, are as follows:

1. Obscure Couture

2. Isolated Heroes

3. Graeme Armour

4. Hayley Scanlan

5. Jennifer Morris

6. Rebecca Torres

7. Marc Ross

We spoke to Jennifer, an LCF graduate who showcased her AW12 collection at Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s exhibition, last month following her nomination. She gave us exclusive shots from her studio and described the potential of winning the ‘Scottish Young Designer of the Year’ award as affirming “all the hard work and long hours that have been put in so far are worth it and just part of the journey towards establishing my name within the fashion industry” (read the full post here).

Good luck for tonight Jennifer – regardless of whether you win the category, it’s still an outstanding achievement to even be nominated. 

By Editor, Cass Gowing

Follow her on Twitter @CassGowing
Images from SFA and Jennifer Morris's AW12 collection