Yesterday, the 2009 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund nominees were announced. They are: menswear designers Patrick Ervell, Simon Spurr of Spurr, womenswear designers Alabama Chanin (sustainable), Gary Graham, Sophie Theallet, Flora Gill and Alexa Adams of Ohne Titel, Wayne Lee of Wayne, jewelry designers Monique Pean (philanthropy/sustainability), Waris Ahluwalia of House of Waris and George Esquivel of Esquivel Shoes. The winner of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund will be announced at a ceremony on November 16th. As has been the tradition for three years, a select few of the nominees will also be asked to participate in Gap Design Editions--a project which aims to introduce these smaller designers to a wider audience. Check out the designs of last year's nominees, all rendered in khaki and now on sale.
Christian Cota, who showed his third collection in New York last September, has been honored with the 2009 FGI Rising Star Award (Jason Wu was the winner in 2008). The 26 year old Mexican-borne designer studied as a painter in Paris before coming to New York to pursue fashion design. Cota has quickly become known for his clean, expressionistic aesthetic. He will show his Fall 2009 collection during New York Fashion Week in less than two weeks.
Last night Fashion Group International called out great names from the fashion, architecture, beauty, and entertainment world--these individuals were celebrated for their contributions to our culture and called, 'The Alchemists' for their abilities in their chosen field. Among those individuals celebrated were, Francisco Costa, Christopher Bailey, Carla Sozzani, Franca Sozzani, and Christian Louboutin for fashion, Bobbi Brown for beauty, Phillipe Stark for architecture, Natalie Massenet from Net-a-Porter for corporate leadership, Harvey Weinstein for entertainment, Bill Mccomb from Liz Claiborne Foundation for humanitarianism, Harold Koda from the Fashion Institute for the Oracle Award, and John Paul de Joria from Paul Mitchell for sustainability. Check out our gallery below for pictures from the event. (Plus, look how happy Karl and Anna are together).
We rarely cover red carpets as frankly we are almost never interested in anyone that traverses them. But last night at the CFDA 2008 Fashion Awards we had plenty to be interested in as it was the real celebrities of our world, the designers, that were doing most of the preening. But there is an unfortunate trend for red carpets at fashion events. More and more designers appear to be scared to walk the red carpet alone. They cling to their "celebrity" guests, afraid it seems, that without their groomed counterpart that the photographers might forget to snap their image. Clearly this isn't the case as menswear winner Tom Ford, accessories winner Tory Burch, and lifetime achievement winner Carolina Herrera got their pictures taken without a problem. Plenty of other designers didn't seem scared to walk by themselves either including Diane Von Fursternberg, Doo Ri, Vera Wang , Donna Karen, Erin Featherston , Zac Posen, and John Bartlett. So why is it that the man of the hour, the winner of Womenswear Designer of The Year, Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein seems unable to stand alone? Every photo we have of him has been while swanning about with a certain beauty in white.
The CFDA presents the Womenswear Designer of the Year award annually to an American designer who has made the most outstanding contribution to and has influenced the direction of women's ready-to-wear fashion with his or her most recent spring and fall collections. The award nominees and winner were selected by the CFDA membership, comprised of a peer group of designers, editors, retailers and stylists. Other nominees for this prestigious category included Marc Jacobs, and Proenza Schouler’s Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough. Winning this award is no small matter. It very much makes you worthy of standing on your own two feet to be adored by the masses of photographers. To make matters worse (or better) Mr. Costa received the very same award in 2006 when he was nominated alongside the same designers.
We think its time for you to leave the embrace of your beauty Mr. Costa and stand alone. Surely after all of this time you deserve to have the limelight by yourself.
Yesterday, the 2009 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund nominees were announced. They are: menswear designers Patrick Ervell, Simon Spurr of Spurr, womenswear designers Alabama Chanin (sustainable), Gary Graham, Sophie Theallet, Flora Gill and Alexa Adams of Ohne Titel, Wayne Lee of Wayne, jewelry designers Monique Pean (philanthropy/sustainability), Waris Ahluwalia of House of Waris and George Esquivel of Esquivel Shoes. The winner of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund will be announced at a ceremony on November 16th. As has been the tradition for three years, a select few of the nominees will also be asked to participate in Gap Design Editions--a project which aims to introduce these smaller designers to a wider audience. Check out the designs of last year's nominees, all rendered in khaki and now on sale. 
Last night Fashion Group International called out great names from the fashion, architecture, beauty, and entertainment world--these individuals were celebrated for their contributions to our culture and called, '
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