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The 2022 CFDA Fashion Awards were announced yesterday evening, with Catherine Holstein of Khaite and Emily Adams Bode Aujla of Bode winning the Womenswear and Menswear Designer of the Year awards respectively.
Steven Kolb, CEO of CFDA, said that this year's nomination list, each award can see new blood entering the list for the first time, such as Willy Chavarria, LaQuan Smith, Mike Amiri of Amiri, Raul Lopez of Luar, Elena Velez, and Puppets and Puppets designer Carly Mark, etc., reflect the enthusiasm of the younger generation of designers to invest in the American fashion industry, and the new look of the future of the fashion industry.
Among them, Khaite, a women's clothing brand founded by Catherine Holstein in 2016, combines the contradictory elements of strength and weakness, deconstruction and smoothness, past and future, etc., to reshape the sexy charm of a new generation of women, and at the same time can be easily worn out High fashion sense.
The womenswear designer of the year was also shortlisted for Peter Do, Christopher John Rogers, Gabriela Hearst, and LaQuan Smith, and Khaite took home the award.
Bode, who won the Menswear Designer of the Year Award, was founded by designer Emily Bode in 2016. It is good at remaking antique fabrics into modern menswear through traditional methods such as patchwork, patches, and intarsia. Bode is also a constant winner of the CFDA Awards. She has also won the 2019 Emerging Designer Award and the 2021 Menswear Designer Award. Designers competing this time also include: Fear of God's Jerry Lorenzo, Amiri's Mike Amiri, Thom Browne, and Willy Chavarria.
Raul Lopez, who won America's Accessories Designer of the Year award, the Luar brand was inspired by his background: a New Yorker from the Dominican Republic and his way of gender fluidity. Other finalists are: Aurora Jame of Brother Vellies, Brandon Blackwood, Stuart Vevers of Coach, and Telfar Clemens of Telfar.
As for Emerging Designer of the Year, Elena Velez took the top spot. Her brand will debut at New York Fashion Week in September 2021 and is good at combining unconventional metalwork with haute couture. Other newcomers include Bach Mai, Carly Mark of Puppets and Puppets, Colm Dillane of KidSuper, and Lauren Harwell Godfrey of Harwell Godfrey.
Others, such as Kim Kardashian's own tights and underwear brand SKIMS, also won the CFDA's first "Innovation Award". SKIMS advertises that it uses comfortable materials to highlight the curves of diversity and tolerance (rather than the traditional slogan of covering the flesh), breaking the shackles of tight clothing is equal to materializing women, but it can make people exude confidence, wear it alone, and be comfortable and fashionable. In just three years, it built a shapewear empire with a market value of $3.2 billion.