Founded in 1962 by American publicist Eleanor Lambert, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, CFDA, is a non-lucrative trade association regrouping more than 400 American fashion and accessory designers. In short, their primary mission is to support the overall growth of American fashion as a global industry. With Diane Von Fürstenberg as the president since 2009, you bet the mission is being fulfilled brillantly and that American fashion has been blossoming in every way possible and shinning internationally. Not only does the Council and its multiple actions allow the development of American fashion, the CFDA foundation also raises funds for charity and industry activities (Fashion Targets Breast Cancer, The CFDA Health Initiative, The CFDA-Vogue Initiative for HIV and AIDS, Fashion for America, Fashion for Japan, Fashion for Haiti and Fashion for Sandy Relief just to name a few. Talk about spreading passion and love!
So on June 3rd 2013, the CFDA Fashion Awards, also known as the "Oscars of Fashion" honoured once again excellence in fashion design in New York at the Lincoln Centre. The process is quite simple; nominations for each award category are submitted by CFDA members along with top fashion journalists, retailers and stylists and then the nominees and the recipients are ratified by the CFDA Board of Directors.
We, at StylX.net, are totally agreeing with this year recipients but would have been as happy if Alexander Wang won the womenswear award even though Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler were as deserving. As for the menswear award, it was give to mister Thom Browne for the second time and Philip Lim received the honours for best accessories. One of the highlight of the night was surely when ex-secretary of state, Hillary Clinton presented the highest honour of the night to Oscar de la Renta or when Vera Wang accepted her lifetime achievement award (moving and passionate). Please check out the CFDA website for more details and for past recipients more even more so for the incredible and fashion wow moments created by StylXtas on the red carpet!
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