Grazia Style Awards 2015: Celebrating Ten Years of Middle Eastern Fashion Authority

Dubai, UAE, 1 March 2015 –The Grazia Style Awards is the hottest date in the regional fashion calendar, highlighting the publication’s trend-setting and taste-making status. On Monday 23 March, the who’s who of the style industry will gather at JW Marriott Marquis to join Grazia in its annual fashion moment. This year is set to be the hottest yet, in recognition of Grazia Middle East’s tenth anniversary, honouring modern Arabia’s contemporary fashion journey with a Celebrating Arabia theme.

The Middle East is the rising hot spot of both global luxury and emerging talent. The past year has seen the industry’s most influential and stylish VIPs visiting the region to applaud the best of fashion. Celebrating Arabia, the 2015 awards theme will include a host of regional success stories and industry icons including; Diala Makki, Rami Ali and Mohammed Habtoor, along with MTV presenter and style icon, Lilah Parsons who will be presenting the 2015 awards. Esteemed regional designer and three times winner of Grazia Style Awards, Essa, will also exclusively add his design touches to the event.

The Grazia Style Awards honour the very best of contemporary fashion and luxury in modern Arabia, identifying the outstanding accomplishments of the boundary-pushing bloggers, the standout brands and the talented creative and influential tastemakers that have inspired the region and beyond. Nominations commence the announcement of the faces that have been rocking the fashion world this year. The voting then follows, inviting fashionistas to champion their hopeful winner and this year with a chance to win 10,000 AED cash, plus a table for ten at the Grazia Style Awards 2015.

In partnership with Sunsilk, Pandora, Joseph, Cities and Shiseido the 2015 Grazia Style Awards will introduce four exciting new categories; Regional Newcomer, raising the profile of emerging Emirati talent, It Bag of 2015, demonstrating the pull and influence of the accessory industry, Style Hunter Of The Year, paralleling the iconic Grazia street-style pages and lastly, Style Icon Of The Year, reinforcing that current fashion crush.

As Grazia celebrates ten years in the Middle East, the awards underline the magazine’s authoritative voice of style in the Middle East and the driving force behind many of the social and retail happenings. The Style Awards night, a fashion fabulous event will continue to deliver the leading go-to guide for the discerning shoppers in the region.