The CFDA Fashion Awards: Nominations are Out
By: Ashley Kalinske | Posted on: March 29th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Read 1,514 Times
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Loading ...The CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers for America) will recognize the outstanding contributions made to American Fashion by industry professionals by hosting the 29th annual CFDA Fashion Awards this spring.
Nominated designers, journalists, stylists, and the like, will be honored for their commitment, vision, and achievements. The most coveted awards are the six designer of the year awards which honor designers for their creative vision and their ready to wear spring and fall collections. In 1986 Perry Ellis developed the coveted emerging talent award, also known as the Swarovski Awards, to recognize the most promising up and coming American based designers.
The CFDA Award Selection Committee, which consists of 300 members of the CFDA along with 500 stylists, journalists, and retailers, receive nomination ballots in early February which must be sent to the CFDA by early March. Members can nominate as many as three designers for each of the six Designer of the Year awards and up to five nominations for each of the honoree Awards.
Nominations recently came out. The finalists are…
Designer of the Year for Women’s: Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, and Alexander Wang; for Men’s: David Neville and Marcus Wainwright of Rag & Bone, Tom Ford, and Michael Bastian; for Accessories: Marc Jacobs, Alexis Bittar, and Proenza Schouler
The nominees for the Swarovski Young Design Award for Women’s: Joseph Altuzarra, Prabal Gurung and Jason Wu; for the Young Men’s: Richard Chai, Patrik Ervell and Simon Spurr; for Swarovski Young Accessory Design Award: Eddie Borgo, Dana Lorenz and Alexander Wang
The Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded to Michael Kors.
Paper Magazine’s Kim Hastreiter will recieve the Eugenia Sheppard Journalism Award
The Eleanor Lambert Award will go to Vogue’s Tonne Goodman
The International Award will go to Burberry’s Christopher Bailey
Iman will receive The Fashion Icon Award
Alexander McQueen will receive a special tribute
Click here to view previous winners.
On June 7th, the CFDA will host The CFDA Fashion Awards at the Lincoln Center. Stay tuned.
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I hope they do a grand tribute for Alexander McQueen. He ia a tremendous loss to the fashion industry. he was a true pioneer.
Thanks for the insight…..very interesting. Well written article. Thanks!