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CFDA and Versace to launch LGBTQ+ scholarship

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) is launching a new programme focused on LGBTQ+ youth and education with Italian fashion house Versace. The initiative will launch with a Master Class event featuring Donatella Versace in a “fireside chat” with the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s chief marketing and communications officer Phillip...

6 Mar 2023

Business

CFDA members and Saks exec join consultancy The Fashioneering Lab

Consultancy and think tank The Fashioneering Lab (TFL) has announced several new additions to its Executives in Residence (EIR) team, as well as the launch date of its TFL Community. The organisation offers B2B merchandising and strategic advice to fashion designers, brands and retailers. In a release, it named eight new EIR members, including...

22 Dec 2022

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Paul Smith names Commission as his next mentorship recipient

Paul Smith has named New York-based brand Commission as the next recipient of its '&PaulSmith’ mentorship and collaboration programme. Following on from the British designer’s project with London-based menswear designer Priya Ahluwalia earlier this year, Smith has teamed up with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) on a...

21 Dec 2022

Business

Prabal Gurung and Aurora James named as vice chairs of CFDA board

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has named two new members of its board following the biannual board meeting hosted at the Verōnika restaurant in New York. The board, made up of 18 CFDA designers, unanimously elected Prabal Gurung and Aurora James as vice chairs, while Maria Cornejo will become secretary and Stacey Bendet...

15 Dec 2022

Business

CFDA to unveil commemorative NFT collection and metaverse exhibition

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has unveiled a commemorative non-fungible token (NFT) collection which will launch days before the debut of a metaverse fashion exhibition. Entitled ‘Lighting the Path of American Fashion’, the NFT collection will feature seven one-of-a-kind assets that will be available through auction on a...

2 Dec 2022

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CFDA names winners of its 2022 Fashion Awards

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has revealed the winners of this year’s Fashion Awards during a ceremony at Casa Cipriani, in New York’s Manhattan. For its 60th anniversary, the event, which was sponsored by Amazon Fashion, saw attendance from a slew of notable figures from various industries, including Cher, Julia Fox, Drake...

8 Nov 2022

Fashion

Law Roach to receive CFDA inaugural stylist award

Law Roach is to receive the CFDA’s inaugural Stylist Award at it this year’s ceremony and celebration. The Los Angeles-based stylist is one of the most in-demand fashion stylists today with a career spanning twenty years. Mr Roach has transformed the looks of many celebrity clients including Celine Dion, Zendaya and Hunter Schafer, as was as...

7 Nov 2022

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Thom Browne elected chairman of the CFDA

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) have unanimously elected Thom Browne as its next chairman for a two-year term. Browne will take up his new role on January 1, 2023, succeeding Tom Ford, who completed his term at the end of May. CFDA chief executive officer Steven Kolb will continue to serve as interim chair until the end of the...

11 Oct 2022

Fashion Featured

NYFW SS23 kicks off in full post-pandemic force

Fendi kicked off New York's Fashion Week with a show celebrating its flagship Baguette bag, in a strong comeback for the runway after pandemic disruption. The Italian luxury house pulled out all the stops 25 years after the small bag became a fashion staple when it was carried by actress Sarah Jessica Parker on "Sex and the City," with 1990s...

12 Sept 2022

Business

CFDA to celebrate 60th anniversary in metaverse

For its 60th anniversary, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) will be making its first steps into the metaverse and Web3 world with an exhibition and collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The initiative comes as part of a collaboration with metaverse platform The Sandbox, with support from Polygon Studios and creative...

9 Sept 2022

Fashion

Black Boy Knits announced as winner of CFDA’s DHL Logistics in Fashion Award

Independent design studio Black Boy Knits has been announced as the winner of the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s (CFDA) 2022 DHL Logistics in Fashion Award. For the third edition of the award, the brand will receive an expanded 15,000 dollar grant prize as well as a mentorship from CFDA and DHL, the organisation’s official logistics...

2 Sept 2022

Business

CFDA announces 2022 scholarship recipients

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has announced the names of the 26 recipients of its 2022 CFDA Scholar Awards. Winners were selected from the 372 submissions received by the organisation via its new open-access application strategy that it said aims to encourage inclusion and accessibility. “The CFDA continues to invest in the...

1 Sept 2022