Alexander Wang
There are exactly six days to go before this year’s CFDA Awards – the US’s official Fashion Council body, and a considerably glitzy spot on the fashion/showbiz calendar. Nominees this year include the predictable - Alexander Wang and Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler will battle Marc Jacobs for the Womenswear Designer gong and there’ll be a Media Award for the wonderfully characterful outgoing Fashion Director of our own British newspaper, The Telegraph - Hilary Alexander, as well as a few more surprising proposals.
Like Lady Gaga for the Fashion Icon Award or the inclusion of the Olsen twins in the Swarovski Award for Womenswear category. Whatever you think of all that – let us know below AND in the meantime, we have got our hands on some incredible black and white portraits of a handful of the nominees by super-snappers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
Wow! They have created these portraits for a journal of the awards. What do you think? Is there anyone on the list of nominees that you would like to see captured on film but don’t?
WOMENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Alexander Wang
Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler
Marc Jacobs
MENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Michael Bastian
Patrik Ervell
Simon Spurr
ACCESSORY DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Alexander Wang
Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler
Reed Krakoff
SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR WOMENSWEAR
Joseph Altuzarra
Ashley Olsen & Mary-Kate Olsen
Prabal Gurung
SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR MENSWEAR
Alexander Wang
Phillip Lim
Robert Geller
SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR ACCESSORY DESIGN
Alejandro Ingelmo
Eddie Borgo
Jason Wu
Pamela Love
INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Phoebe Philo for Celine
MEDIA AWARD, given in honor of Eugenia Sheppard
Hilary Alexander
FOUNDERS AWARD, given in honor of Eleanor Lambert, the CFDA’s founder
Hal Rubenstein
FASHION ICON AWARD
Lady Gaga
GEOFFREY BEENE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Marc Jacobs
BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ SPECIAL TRIBUTE
Arthur Elgort
