The CFDA is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exhibition at the Museum at FIT, and tonight is opening night. Preparations, of course, are full steam ahead for New York fashion week, but you can count on seeing plenty of boldface designers at the party. Many, if not all of them, contributed images as well [...]

WOMENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEARAlexander WangJack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza SchoulerMarc JacobsMENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEARMichael BastianPatrik ErvellSimon SpurrACCESSORY DESIGNER OF THE YEARAlexander WangJack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza SchoulerReed KrakoffSWAROVSKI AWARD FOR WOMENSWEARJoseph AltuzarraAshley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen for The RowPrabal GurungSWAROVSKI AWARD FOR MENSWEARAlexander WangPhillip LimRobert GellerSWAROVSKI AWARD FOR ACCESSORY [...]

For not having prepared a speech, Womenswear Designer winners Kate and Laura Mulleavy made it through their acceptance speech with an admirable degree of composure. “We thought about things beforehand, but I was pretty sure we wouldn’t win, so I wasn’t feeling too nervous the whole night,” said Kate backstage. “But when they called our [...]

The awards are about to start after a flurry of late arrivals: Daphne Guinness with Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, Zac Posen with a twirling Doutzen Kroes and Thakoon Panichgul who asked how early arrivers Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer and Lauren duPont looked in his pleated minidresses from resort. (The latest of them all [...]