2013 Swarovski CFDA Award For Menswear Winner - Public School!

CONGRATS to Maxwell Osbourne and Dao-Yi Chow of Public School!

Other CFDA winners of the night include:

Womenswear Designer of the Year: Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler
Menswear Designer of the Year: Thom Browne
Accessories Designer of the Year: Phillip Lim for 3.1 Phillip Lim (YAY!)
Swarovski Womenswear Designer of the Year: Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty for Suno
Swarovski Accessories Designer of the Year: Pamela Love

2013 Swarovski CFDA Award For Menswear Nominees

Hi Everyone....it's been a while!  As I've said, when there's something SUPER worthy of posting, I would jump right back on and post it.  

So the CFDA awards are just around the corner and this year's nominees for the Swarovski Award for menswear are Todd Synder, Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne of Public School and Tim Coppens. While all are very deserving of the award, I'm partial to Tim Coppens.  Go Tim!

Below is a short film by the CFDA that highlights the designers' perspectives, backgrounds, inspirations, what it means to be recognized by the CFDA and the emotions that comes with such an accomplishment.

I honestly am so inspired by these designers and what they are doing.  ONE DAY...I hope it will be me.  In the meantime, I'm going to work my butt off till I get there.  Wish me luck!  

See my work here:  Portfolio

Kim Jones Wins 2011 British Fashion Menswear Award

Kim Jones goes home with the Menswear award at the 2011 British Fashion Awards for his Spring / Summer 2012 collection for Louis Vuitton.  A very productive and challenging couple of years for Kim Jones, having taking the lead over at Dunhill and now at Vuitton (under Marc).  Can't wait to see what he'll do next.  Congrats!

Side note:  seeing people win fashion awards really motivates me.  Can't wait to do great things too in the world of fashion.  To make a difference...wow!  So inspirational.

Other notable winners:

Designer Of The Year - Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen.  (DUH!)
BFC Outstanding Achievement in Fashion - Paul Smith.

Michael Bastian Wins CFDA 2011 Menswear Designer of the Year

Michael Bastian wins this year's CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year award beating out Patrick Ervell and Simon Spurr!  Congrats and well deserved as this isn't his first time as a nominee.  However, I was definitely pulling for Simon Spurr!

Also, Swarovski Award for Menswear went to Robert Geller, one of my all-time favorites!  Full list of winners below:

P.S. So inspirational.  Mark my words, I will win both of these titles one day!

Other award nominees and winners are listed below.

Womenswear Designer of the Year
The nominees: Alexander Wang, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler, Marc Jacobs
The winner: Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler

Accessory Designer of the Year
The nominees: Alexander Wang, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler, Reed Krakoff
The winner: Alexander Wang

Swarovski Award for Womenswear
The nominees: Joseph Altuzarra, Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen, Prabal Gurung
The winner: Prabal Gurung

Swarovski Award for Accessory Design
The nominees: Alejandro Ingelmo, Eddie Borgo, Jason Wu, Pamela Love
The winner: Eddie Borgo

Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award
Marc Jacobs

CFDA Board of Directors Special Tribute
Arthur Elgort

Eugenia Sheppard Media Award
Hilary Alexander of The Telegraph

Eleanor Lambert Founders Award
Hal Rubenstein of InStyle

International Award
Phoebe Philo for Céline

Alexander Wang To Debut Menswear Collection - Fall / Winter 2011

GQ Designer of the year 2011 winner Alexander Wang just released the first image of the debut collection of his Fall/Winter 2011 menswear line.  I will say, I'm very, very intrigued.   Wang is definitely on a roll as of late!

From Style:

“It’s about the right timing, the right opportunity, then one thing leads to another,” Wang said at his studio last week about his first men’s collection. His first foray into menswear came via his casual T collection three seasons ago, which began small and gradually grew to include leathers and some outerwear. That line recently earned him the CFDA and GQ’s Best New Menswear Designer Award, a win that surprised even Wang himself. “I got nominated and at first I was like, really?” he recalled with a laugh. “They really encouraged me and reinforced the idea that [they] think it’s the right time, and I was like, well, let’s do it!” The CFDA redoubled its encouragement when this year’s CFDA Award nominations were announced. There, Wang—who’s already won the Swarovski awards for women’s and accessories in 2009 and 2010, respectively—was not only nominated for the womenswear Designer of the Year trophy, he also found his name among the finalists for the Swarovski emerging-designer award for menswear, for T by Alexander Wang.

The alignment of the stars—not to mention the nudging of the industry—doesn’t get much clearer than that. In addition to which, Wang says menswear is among the most requested category at his new Soho store. So for Fall, he is set to debut his namesake menswear collection, though he stresses that the initial offering is small enough to be considered a capsule. It will be available at Wang’s own shop and Barneys New York, and at stores including Dover Street Market, Colette, and Joyce internationally. Prices begin where T men’s leaves off, at around $375, and climb to $1,150 for outerwear (one outlying all-leather trenchcoat tops out at $2,150).

“It started with a lot utilitarian references, something that I’ve always felt a close attraction to,” Wang continued. “And the idea of mixing—I’ve always liked to take something very dressy and bring it down, [take] something very, very casual and elevate it.” So Wang’s suit pants are actually tracksuit bottoms in utility nylon or leather; his outerwear (some of the strongest of the 14-style collection), traditional overcoats tricked out with varsity-jacket leather sleeves. Sporty jackets in wool felt and gabardine include silk tuxedo collars, and slubby sweatpants are shown with baggy, knee-length leather shorts. And while the heavy boots styled into the shots above aren’t by Wang, the designer says men’s accessories will be added for his second collection, in Spring ‘12."


Are you excited?!  I sure am.

Alexander Wang Wins GQ's Best New Menswear Designer 2011 + Video

Alexander Wang wins GQ's Best New Menswear Designer 2011 award and below is the video of the announcement.  With that award, Alexander Wang was awarded $50,000, mentorship with Docker's, Bloomindale's and the editors of GQ as well as design a limited edition Docker's capsule.

Congrats to a fellow Taiwanese American Designer!!!!

So young and inspirational.  Mark my words, that title will be mine one day!

P.S.  I love his design studio!

Congrats to Alabama Based Billy Reid For Winning 2010 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Menswear Award!

CONGRATS! I, too, hope to be in your position some day Mr. Billy Reid! Thank you for being an inspiration!

For more info on the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award...click here.

XX wins Britain's Mercury Prize!

Congrats! Currently, the album is ranked #1 on the UK itunes and Billboard. For the fashion show last year, we used Intro for one of the songs...it was a great segment.

Enjoy VCR, one of the album's best tracks.

Source: NY Times