Who needs an Oscar? The CFDA Fashion Awards nominees and honorees were announced on Wednesday night at the fashion council’s swanky Bleecker Street office with some usual suspects and welcome newcomers entering the ring this year. CFDA President Diane von Furstenberg and Nadja Swarovski announced the nominations to a crowd that included Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen, Vera Wang, Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs, Dean Harris, Dennis Basso, Erin Beatty and Max Osterweis, Eugenia Kim, Johan Lindeberg, Michael Bastian, Pamela Love, Philip Crangi, Phillip Lim, Rebecca Taylor, Robert Geller, Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters, Simon Spurr, Todd Snyder, Brian Wolk, Claude Morais, Waris Ahluwalia, Yigal Azrouel, and CFDA CEO Steven Kolb. The winners will be announced on June 3rd at Alice Tully Hall. Here’s the list of the nominees and winners for 2013 with a reminder of who took home the prize in 2012…
International Award: Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci
2012 Winner: Rei Kawakubo–Commes des Garcons
The Media Award, given in honor of Eugenia Sheppard, Tim Blanks
2012 Winner: Scott Schuman & Garance Doré
Founders Award, given in honor of CFDA founder Eleanor Lambert, Oscar de la Renta
2012 Winner: Andrew Rosen
Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award: Vera Wang
2012: Tommy Hilfiger
The Board of Directors’ Tribute Award: Costume designer Colleen Atwood
Menswear Designer of the Year
Michael Bastian
Thom Browne
Duckie Brown’s Steven Cox and Daniel Silver
2012 Winner: Billy Reid
Womenswear Designer of the Year
Alexander Wang
Marc Jacobs
Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez
2012 Winners: Ashley & Mary Kate Olsen for The Row
Swarovski Award for Accessory Design
Irene Neuwirth
Jennifer Meyer
Pamela Love
2012 Winner: Tabitha Simmons
Swarovski Award for Menswear
Tim Coppens
Todd Snyder
Public School’s Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne
2012 Winner: Phillip Lim
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
2012 Winner: Joseph Altuzarra
Accessory Designer of the Year
Alexander Wang
Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez
Phillip Lim
2012 Winner: Reed Krakoff
