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New York Fashion Week may be over, but the CFDA has another headline for you: the Council of Fashion Designers of America has revealed the honourees and nominees for the 2024 CFDA Awards.
Last November, Thom Browne hosted his first CFDA Awards as chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America at the American Museum of Natural History. There was a huge whale on the ceiling and tiny ones floating on the crusts of the chicken pot pies for dinner. There was Anne Hathaway in a Ralph Lauren denim gown waxing poetic about the joys of fashion. There was Serena Williams accepting her fashion icon award from the previous year’s fashion innovation award winner Kim Kardashian.
The awards are returning this year on 28 October and will once again be hosted at the museum. Amazon Fashion will continue to serve as the presenting partner, while Google Shopping will present the American emerging designer of the year award.
As a touching tribute, the CFDA board of directors is renaming its namesake award to the Isabel Toledo board of director’s tribute to honour the all-American iconoclast Toledo. She will receive the award posthumously; it will be accepted by her husband, Ruben Toledo.
This year, Daniel Roseberry of Schiaparelli will receive the international designer of the year award, while Michael Kors will be presented the positive change award for his work fighting hunger through the Watch Hunger Stop campaign, as well as his support of God’s Love We Deliver charity and the United Nations World Food Programme. The media award in honour of Eugenia Sheppard will be presented to Annie Leibovitz, while the recipient of the founder’s award in honour of Eleanor Lambert will be Hamish Bowles. Stephen Burrows, a legend in the American fashion landscape, will receive his well-deserved flowers as he is to be presented with the Geoffrey Beene lifetime achievement award.
Khaite’s Catherine Holstein, who won womenswear designer of the year the last two years, is absent in the category this season: is this the year Tory Burch wins big, or will Diotima’s Rachel Scott stage an upset? This year, CFDA chairman Browne is nominated twice, for both the menswear and womenswear prizes, a rare feat; could he swing both? Will Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen of The Row — at this point perennial nominees — add another accessories designer of the year award to their mantle?
“This year’s nominees and honourees represent the gamut of American fashion creativity and excellence,” CFDA CEO Steven Kolb said. “As our biggest fundraiser of the year, the CFDA Fashion Awards presented by Amazon Fashion significantly contribute to the CFDA Scholarship Fund to support tomorrow’s generation of designers and future nominees and honourees of this special night, and we are grateful to Amazon Fashion for their leadership.” Read the full list of nominations below.
Womenswear designer of the year
Rachel Scott, Diotima
Marc Jacobs, Marc Jacobs
Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, Proenza Schouler
Thom Browne, Thom Browne
Tory Burch, Tory Burch
Menswear designer of the year
Mike Amiri, Amiri
Emily Adams Bode Aujla, Bode
Thom Browne, Thom Browne
Todd Snyder, Todd Snyder
Willy Chavarria, Willy Chavarria
Accessories designer of the year
Ana Khouri, Ana Khouri
Stuart Vevers, Coach
Catherine Holstein, Khaite
Raul Lopez, Luar
Tory Burch, Tory Burch
Emerging designer of the year
Presley Oldham, Presley Oldham
Tanner Richie and Fletcher Kasell, Tanner Fletcher
Jackson Wiederhoeft, Wiederhoeft
Henry Zankov, Zankov
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