CFDA Awards Winners & Red Carpet Trends

The CFDA Awards last night celebrated designers and members of the industry across various categories. Congratulations to all the winners!

The CFDA Award Winners:
Marc Jacobs - Womenswear Designer of the Year
Marcus Wainwright and David Neville for Rag & Bone - Menswear Designer of the Year
Alexis Bittar - Accessory Designer of the Year

The Swarovski Award (honors emerging talent):
Jason Wu- Womenswear
Richard Chai - Menswear
Alexander Wang - Accessory Design

L’Oréal Popular Vote Award:
Ralph Lauren

Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award:
Michael Kors

International Award:
Burberry’s Christopher Bailey

Eleanor Lambert Award:
Vogue’s Tonne Goodman

Eugenia Sheppard Award:
Paper magazine’s Kim Hastreiter

Fashion Icon Award:
Iman

The Board of Director’s Special Tribute:
Alexander McQueen

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So with it being such a designer-centric fashion affair you would expect that the fashion would follow suit but I found that most people took a safe approach to their dressing and black, white and silver were the dominant dressing themes.

Sparkling Sexy Black

Left - Michael Kors with Gwyneth Paltrow in custom Michael Kors and Fred Leighton.
Center - Lara Stone in Calvin Klein Collection and Fred Leighton.
Right - Molly Sims

Textural White Minis

Left - Amanda Brooks in Thakoon.
Right - Hana Soukupova in Marchesa.

Shining in Silver

Left - Constance Jablonski
Center - Donna Karan
Right - Whitney Port in David Meister.

Printed Columns

Left - Sarah Jessica Parker in Alexander McQueen and Stephen Russell.
Right - Jessica Biel in Diane von Furstenberg.

Left - Diane von Furstenberg
Right - Tory Burch

Blush/Nude

Left - Linda Fargo
Right - Alexa Chung in Marc Jacobs and Atelier Swarovski.

Left - Brooke Shields in J.Mendel.
Right - Maggie Grace in Notte by Marchesa.

Left - Alexis Bledel in Benhaz Serafpour.
Right - Carmen Kass in Michael Kors.

Statement Necklace

Left - Jessica Stam
Right - Sasha Pivavarova in The Row.

My Personal Favorite

Rachel Weisz in Jason Wu.

All images courtesy of WWD

New CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Winner!

Looks from Sophie Theallet Spring 2010

CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund has a new winner, Sophie Theallet. As winner Theallet takes home $200 000 and a year’s worth of mentoring! She follows in the footsteps of now much celebrated designer Alexander Wang. Considering this, we should definitely keep careful watch of what Theallet will do next.

Truthfully I hadn't had a chance to look at Sophie's collection before today but she is well known as having worked with Azzedine Alaïa for a decade before establishing resort line, Motu Tane with make up artist François Nars. According to Style.com,"The Brooklyn-based French expatriate...is one of Michelle Obama's Chosen Ones." Guess what Mrs O says is as good as gold. Check out the rest of her collection here.

Chanel Iman with Sophie Theallet

The runners-up, Ervell and Pean, did not go home empty handed as they each received $50 000 and a business mentor.

Can't wait to see what's next for these young talents.

And the winner is...CFDA Awards

WWD just announced the winners of the CFDA awards.

Congrats to sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte for winning Womenswear Designer of the Year Award!

Meanwile Scott Sternberg for Band of Outsiders and Italo Zucchelli for Calvin Klein Collection tied for the Menswear Designer of the Year Award.

And guess it was an amazing year for the Proenza Schouler boys and their PS1's, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez won Accessory Designer of the Year.

The Swarovski awards for emerging talent, meanwhile, went to Alexander Wang for Womenswear, Tim Hamilton for Menswear and Justin Giunta for Subversive Jewelry for Accessory Design. Yay to Justin who I met back in September :)

Anna Sui was honored with the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award.

Marc Jacobs, looking adorable with Lorenzo won the The International Award, for his work at Louis Vuitton.

Other awards went to First Lady Michelle Obama for the CFDA’s Board of Directors’ Special Tribute. While, WWD editor in chief Edward Nardoza was honored with the Eugenia Sheppard Award. GQ Creative Director Jim Moore took the Eleanor Lambert Award.