Neiman Marcus Fashion Award
The Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion was a yearly award created in 1938 by Carrie Marcus Neiman and Stanley Marcus. Unlike the Coty Award, it was not limited to American-based fashion designers.[1] Recipients of the Neiman Marcus Awards include couturiers, non-American-based designers, journalists, manufacturers, and celebrities and style icons who had had a significant personal influence upon fashion such as Grace Kelly and Grace Mirabella.[1][2] The award was typically presented to multiple recipients each year, rather than to a single individual, although Adrian was the sole winner in 1943, a feat repeated in 1957 by Coco Chanel.[1] From 1969 the awards became increasingly intermittent, with ceremonies held in 1973, 1979, 1980, 1984 and 1995, the last year in which the awards were presented. For the final ceremony, the founder, Stanley Marcus, received one of his own awards.
Award winners
This is a complete list of recipients of the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award from 1938 onwards.[3]
1938-1949
- 1938
- Louise B. Gallagher
- John-Frederics
- Richard Koret
- Dorothy Liebes
- George Miller
- Germaine Monteil
- Dan Palter
- Nettie Rosenstein
- 1939
- 1940
- Edna Woolman Chase
- Lilly Daché
- Elsa Schiaparelli
- Sylvan Stroock
- 1941
- Anthony Blotta
- Omar Kiam
- Eleanor LeMaire
- Max Meyer
- Carmel Snow
- Madame Tobe
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944
- Brooke Cadwallader
- Jo Copeland
- Countess Mara
- Ben King
- 1945
- Tina Leser
- Vera Marghab
- Maurice Rentner
- Dr. Francis Taylor
- Thea Tewi
- Louis A Weinberg
- Emily Wilkens
- 1946
- John M. Gates, design director for Steuben Glass Works
- William H. and Faie Joyce of Joyce Shoes
- Slim Keith (as Mrs. Leland Hayward)
- William Phelps
- Adele Simpson
- 1947
- 1948
- Mme. Henri Bonnet (wife of Henri Bonnet, French Ambassador to the United States 1944-54)
- Antonio del Castillo
- Claire McCardell
- Julius Ochs Adler
- 1949
- Alice Cadolle
- David Evins
- Jacques Fath
- Gladys Geissman (Merry Hull)
1950-1959
- 1950
- 1951
- Ernestine Cannon
- Jane Derby
- Jacques Lesur
- Michelle Murphy
- Ben Zuckerman
- 1952
- Roger Fare
- Anne Fogarty
- Vincent Monte-Sano
- Dolores del Río
- 1953
- Marchesa Olga di Gresy
- Charles James
- Gilbert & Helen Orcel
- Ben Sommers
- 1954
- 1955
- Pierre Balmain
- Henry Dreyfuss
- Florence Eiseman
- Grace Kelly
- Sally Kirkland
- Vera Maxwell
- 1956
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
1960-1969
- 1960
- Sylvia Pedlar
- Roger Jean-Pierre
- Dinah Shore
- Edward Burke Smith
- Claude Staron
- 1961
- Greer Garson
- Harry Rolnick
- Ferdinando Sarmi
- Roger Vivier
- Sydney Wragge
- 1962
- 1963
- Georges Braque
- Bud Kilpatrick
- Margaret Clarke Miller
- Maurice Tumarkin
- 1964-1965
The awards for 1964 and 1965 were combined into one award for the two years[1]
- Geoffrey Beene
- Mr & Mrs. Arthur Edelman
- Tzaims Luksus
- 1966
- Mary Brosnan
- Mme Helen Lazareff
- Lucie Ann Onderwyzer
- Mila Schön
- Jacques Tiffeau
- 1967
- Valentino
- Fiamma Ferragamo
- The Artisans of Florence
- Giancarlo Venturini
- Lydia de Roma
- 1968
- 1969
- Bill Blass
- Anne Klein
- Bernard Kayman
- Emanuel Ungaro
- Gloria Vanderbilt
1970-1995
- 1973
- 1979
- 1980
- 1984
- 1995
References
- 1 2 3 4 McDowell, Colin (1984). McDowell's Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion. Frederick Muller. pp. 302–303. ISBN 0-584-11070-7.
- ↑ Company history on Neiman Marcus' official website, accessed March 22, 2009
- ↑ Staff writer (25 October 2002). "The Neiman's Seal of Approval.". Women's Wear Daily. via Highbeam (subscription required). Retrieved 2 March 2015.