Teen Talent Dionne Bromfield and Tallia Storm join International Line up for Scotland’s most glamorous night of the year at the 7th Annual Scottish Fashion Awards in Association with in style.
Glasgow, Scotland, 21st May 2012 — The Scottish Fashion Awards have announced today that soul songstress Dionne Bromfield, god-daughter to the late Amy Wine house and fellow teen singer Tallia Storm, Sir Elton John’s protégée will be taking to the stage at the 7th Annual Scottish Fashion Awards in association with In Style.
The event, which is hosted by international style icon Alexa Chung, will take place in a new venue, The Clyde Auditorium on Monday 11th June 2012 with tickets open to the public for the first time for just £35.
The fashion extravaganza will play host to a 3000 capacity audience made up of general guests, celebrities, supermodels, designers, and a host of international fashion stars including Tali Lennox, David Gandy, Laura Bailey, Rankin, Ozwald Boetang, Holly Fulton, Louise Gray, Henrietta Ludgate, Colin McDowell, Lara Bohnic, Amelle Berabbah, Brix Smith Start, Millie Mackintosh and top fashion editors who will fly to Scotland for this now globally recognised celebration of Scottish style, where the great and the good of Scottish fashion are honoured.
The awards ceremony will be made up of nominee catwalk shows and an exclusive Swarovski runway show previewing for the first time in the UK the upcoming Winter 2012 ‘Kingdom of Jewels’ fashion and couture collections, created by Nathalie Colin, the Paris based Creative Director. Entertainment will be provided by the talented teens Dionne and Tallia who will each perform a song during the glittering ceremony.
At just 16 years of age, Dionne attends a performance school, has already released 3 albums to great critical acclaim on the late Amy Winehouse’s ‘Lioness’ label, presents CBBC’s Friday Download TV show, where she recently interviewed Justin Bieber and is a regular at glamorous red carpet events.
This incredibly polite young lady captured the world’s attention when she was just 13 when she became the first signing to the family friend and mentor Amy Winehouse’s record label. Having been singing from an early age, her first album was the well-received debut covers set, followed by her audacious second, self-written suite ‘Good for the soul’. With a huge fan base on both sides of the Atlantic, there is no doubt that the stylish Dionne is headed for global stardom and has already performed across the world to her adoring fans.
Her sound is one that fits perfectly into the catalogue of a new British soul tradition, of artists like Plan B and Paloma Faith that have contemporised their Motown leanings, freshly minting them for a brand new generation, yet harks back somewhere to the commercial Midas touch of peak-era Gabrielle. As a fashion fan, Dionne is looking forward to fly to Scotland where she will join a host fashion stars on the tartan red carpet on Monday 11th June.
She said: “I am really excited to be attending and being able to perform in Scotland for the Scottish Fashion Awards, It is an honour and can’t wait to see everyone”
Dionne will be joined by fellow teen singer 13 year old Tallia Storm.
Having performed over the last 18 months at various gigs around the UK with Capital Radio, Radio Clyde and on stage live at London Fashion Week last September, the Scottish teenager’s life changed forever last Christmas when she was on holiday with her family in the US. She spotted David Furnish in a restaurant and politely interrupted him to enquire if he would pass on a letter and CD to her idol Sir Elton John.
The following day Sir Elton called her mobile and told her that she has one of the most exciting vocal signatures he had heard in years, and that he absolutely loved her material and her vibe. So on 10th June (the night before the awards) she will join one of the world’s musical legends to open his show where she will belt out her strong soulful melodies, with an R&B groove that simply defies her petite teenage frame.
With her trademark ‘big hair’ Tallia Storm is already critically acclaimed in her native Scotland. There’s something quite raw and interesting about the Tallia Storm vocal. Nothing contrived, just a deep soulful signature reminiscent to that from the Motown era, belying her age.
Having returned from working in LA recently, she featured on the best dressed list from the influential US glossy ‘Nylon’ magazine where she attended their 13th Anniversary party alongside a host of Disney stars including Bella Thorne, Jennifer Stone and Josh Hutcheson. With her quirky sense of style, she’s sure to be an exciting addition the fashion awards tartan red carpet.
The talented teens will be joined a host of high profile names who are amongst the nominee shortlist including Jonathan Saunders, Christopher Kane, Holly Fulton, April Crichton for Sonia Rykiel, to textile leaders like Hawick Cashmere, Caerlee Mill and Dashing Tweeds. There are a host of young guys shaping Scotland’s fashionable future like Obscure Couture, Hayley Scanlan, Jennifer Morris, Bonnie Bling and Marc Ross to a scattering of global supermodels including Tali Lennox, Amanda Hendrick and Chloe Campbell.
This year the Communicator category line up reads like the A-Z of Britain’s top fashion editors with reps from Harpers Bazaar, Vogue.com and The Times included along with creative stars from Louis Vuitton and international menswear brand Duchamp.