Someone must have heard of Alistair Carmichael’s excellent skills at Ed Fordham and Russell Eagling’s wedding last Saturday. He’s only gone and got himself another hosting gig, at the Scottish Fashion Awards in September, just 17 days before the Referendum on independence.
Fibre 2 Fashion has the story:
The Scottish Fashion Awards have announced an impressive list of nominees and honourees for the 9th annual fashion extravaganza, which will take place in 8 Northumberland, London on 1st September 2014. The event will be co-hosted by The Secretary of State for Scotland Alistair Carmichael MP and awards founder Dr Tessa Hartmann.
The black tie awards presentation will be hosted by TV personality Laura Whitmore followed by a glamorous Scottish banquet and will welcome supermodels, industry figures and fashion players from around the world to celebrate this wonderful showcase of Scottish fashion and design talent working in Scotland and around the world.
Alistair is quoted as saying:
I’m delighted to co-host the 9th annual Scottish Fashion Awards this year with Dr Tessa Hartmann. It’s great to see year on year the commercial and creative success these Scottish designers, brands and manufacturers are having and it’s important they are acknowledged and supported.
“These awards are now recognised around the world as the benchmark of success within the global fashion community and are without a doubt the most high profile showcase of Scottish fashion, design and textile talent in the country. They are respected around the world and judged by a panel of renowned and esteemed international industry figures and they provide an invaluable platform for emerging Scottish talent, textile manufacturers, and fashion’s future leaders.
Any woman doing such a job would be pestered to distraction about what she was going to wear and every facet of her appearance criticised. We wouldn’t ever be so cruel to Alistair, but I suspect we will have a bit of fun with this.
It’s a tough life…
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8 Comments
I just wonder whether priorities are wrong here? We probably have the nearest thing we ever get to a General Strike we have had for many many years, and we have no post yet on it. We have here a post about fashion awards. The strike and demos address questions which run to the heart of our political problems as a party, and many of our elected representatives at Westminster, anyway, want to be seen as a multiple of “The 3 Wise Monkeys” (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil). We should be celebrating our public servants of all kinds, and rewarding them properly, not preparing to privatise them, going around saying we cannot afford them, they must all become either volunteers or outsourced casualised labour. Of course there are issues of “limits”, but we need an economics that sees these workers, NOT as a burden, but as contributing to our wealth, as they do. An economics which divides people into “wealth creators” and “burdens” should have no place within the Lib Dems – our constitution does not allow it.
@Tim13 Why not post your views on a new thread? Or am I missing something? Btw, fashion is an industry which provides employment and is a significant part of our economy. It generates the income and wealth without which there would be no money to employ public servants.
Alistair Carmichael…fashion…?
Is 10th July the new 1st April?!!
Tony Greaves
There are some people from whom I am prepared to take that sort of comment but I am not sure that Tony Greaves is one of them!
Tim13 – I may have my history wrong, but didn’t the General Strike involve around 1.5 million workers going on strike for ten days?
On Thursday there was no visible evidence of anyone going on strike in my area, although one of my friends did say on facebook that her son’s class teacher was on strike, but the only only one at the school.
My impression is that other than in a few areas, yesterday’s strike didn’t have much support and even less enthusiasm.
Rubbish not collected here in Southwark and I saw a Library closed. But otherwise city appeared normal. Transport ran shops open. General Strike? Hardly!
Tony is a fashion icon in Winewall and as far away as Trawden!
Mind you, to be boringly pedantic, an icon is an old and faded painting or statue, often overlaid by the grime of centuries, and purporting to represent a saint.