Council of Fashion Designers of America
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The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a non-profit trade group for American fashion designers founded in 1962.[1] As of 2006, Diane von Furstenberg is the group's president.
The organization sponsors the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, scholarships, and professional development programs, as well as awards for fashion design.[1]
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[edit] Awards
The CFDA's annual awards ceremony, which honors excellence in fashion design, is often called "the Oscars of fashion."[2] Nominations are submitted by CFDA members and by select fashion publications, retailers, and stylists.[1] Award winners are voted on and announced at the annual CFDA Fashion Awards gala event.[1]
[edit] Past winners[1]
This is a selected list of winners. Winners in other categories, winners in past years, and nominees can be found at the CFDA Website.
| Year | Womenswear Award | Menswear Award | Emerging Talent Award for Ready-to-Wear[3] |
International Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein |
Tom Ford | Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy (womenswear) and Scott Sternberg for Band of Outsiders (menswear) | Dries van Noten ( .svg/22px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small} Belgium) |
| 2007 | Oscar de la Renta, and Lazaro Hernandez & Jack McCollough for Proenza Schouler |
Ralph Lauren | Phillip Lim (womenswear) and David Neville & Marcus Wainwright for Rag & Bone |
Pierre Cardin (  Italy) |
| 2006 | Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein |
Thom Browne | Doo-Ri Chung (womenswear) and Jeff Halmos, Josia Lamberto-Egan, Sam Shipley, & John Whitledge for Trovata (menswear) |
Olivier Theyskens ( Belgium)for Rochas |
| 2005 | Vera Wang | John Varvatos | Derek Lam (womenswear) and Alexandre Plokhov for Cloak (menswear) |
Alber Elbaz (  Israel)for Lanvin |
| 2004 | Carolina Herrera | Sean Combs for Sean John |
Zac Posen | Miuccia Prada ( Italy) |
| 2003 | Narciso Rodriguez | Michael Kors | Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough for Proenza Schouler |
Alexander McQueen (  Great Britain) |
| 2002 | Narciso Rodriguez | Marc Jacobs | Rick Owens | Hedi Slimane (  France)for Dior Homme |
| 2001 | Tom Ford | John Varvatos | Daphne Gutierrez and Nicole Noselli for Bruce (womenswear) and William Reid (menswear) |
Nicolas Ghesquiere ( France)for Balenciaga |
| 2000 | Oscar de la Renta | Helmut Lang | Miguel Adrover (womenswear) and John Varvatos (menswear) |
Jean-Paul Gaultier ( France) |
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e CFDA website
- ^ Style.com 2006 CFDA coverage
- ^ Some years, a single emerging talent award is given for ready-to-wear. Other years, one emerging talent award is given for menswear and another for womenswear.
