Last night, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) held its annual Fashion Awards at its usual venue, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, hosted by Cynthia Erivo. Presented by Amazon Fashion, this year’s awards also include the Amazon Innovation Award in addition to many of the usual titles honoring top performers of the American fashion industry.
Taking the American Menswear Designer of the Year award home for the second consecutive year, Willy Chavarria was handed the trophy by singer, Troye Sivan. For 2024, the designer was up against Amiri’s Mike Amiri, Bode’s Emily Adams Bode Aujla, Thom Browne and Todd Snyder.
Last year, Rachel Scott of Diotima was the honoree of the Shop with Google American Emerging Designer of the Year award. This time around, the Diotima designer was bestowed the title of American Womenswear Designer of the Year by Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Other nominees in the category included Marc Jacobs, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler, Thom Browne and Tory Burch.
Raul Lopez of Luar won Accessory Designer of the Year against a fierce competition that featured Ana Khouri, Stuart Vevers for Coach, Catherine Holstein for Khaite and Tory Burch. Meanwhile, the Google Shopping American Emerging Designer of the Year title went to Henry Zankov for Zankov, who was nominated alongside Jackson Wiederhoeft for Wiederhoeft, Connor McKnight, Presley Oldham as well as Tanner Richie and Fletcher Kasell for Tanner Fletcher.
Singer-songwriter Erykah Badu was named CFDA’s Fashion Icon for 2024. As for the Media Award in Honor of Eugenia Shepard, photographer Annie Leibovitz was bestowed with the honor by none other than Anna Wintour.
See the full list of winners below.
CFDA’s 2024 Fashion Icon Award:
Erykah BaduFounder’s Award in Honor of Eleanor Lambert:
Hamish BowlesAmerican Womenswear Designer of the Year:
Rachel Scott for DiotimaAmerican Menswear Designer of the Year:
Willy ChavarriaAmerican Accessory Designer of the Year:
Raul Lopez for LuarMedia Award in Honor of Eugenia Shepard:
Annie LeibovitzAmazon Innovation Award:
Stuart Vevers for CoachtopiaPositive Change Award:
Michael KorsGoogle Shopping American Emerging Designer of the Year:
Henry Zankov for ZankovIsabel Toledo Board of Directors’ Tribute:
Isabel ToledoInternational Designer of the Year Award:
Daniel Roseberry, Schiaparelli
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