Celebrating “American design talent and the influence our industry has across the globe,” the highly covetable and much-lauded CFDA Fashion Awards nominees for 2013 ” represent the best and most creative talent of the past year as determined by a Guild of their peers,” said Steven Kolb, The Council of Fashion Designers of America’s CEO.
And last night, the “pretty much unanimous” CFDA nomination results, according to Diane von Furstenberg, were announced as;
International Award: Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci
Media Award: Tim Blanks (Style.com )
Founders Award: Oscar de la Renta
Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award: Vera Wang
Board of Directors’ Tribute Award: Costume designer Colleen Atwood (Snow White and the Huntsman and Alice and Wonderland)
Accessory Designer of the Year
Alexander Wang
Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez
Phillip Lim
Menswear Designer of the Year
Michael Bastian
Thom Browne
Duckie Brown’s Steven Cox and Daniel Silver
Womenswear Designer of the Year
Marc Jacobs
Alexander Wang
Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez
And for the twelfth year running, the three Swarovski-sponsored emerging designer awards are as follows:
Swarovski Award for Accessory Design
Irene Neuwirth
Jennifer Meyer
Pamela Love
Swarovski Award for Menswear
Tim Coppens
Todd Snyder
Public School’s Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne
Swarovski Awards for Womenswear
Suno’s Erin Beatty and Max Osterweis
Creatures of the Wind’s Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters
Cushnie et Ochs’ Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs
The CFDA Awards Ceremony will take place on June 3rd, with a broadcast to follow on June 4th on Style.com