Edited by Lester Brathwaite
The Met Gala red carpet strutted into the 21st century with its first-ever live-stream and now the other Oscars of fashion, the 2012 CFDA Awards, will be broadcast on Style.com a day after it’s held on June 4.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Part of an elite group of designers, rapidly expanding in the CFDA Incubator, Luis Fernandez and business partner Greg Lawrence are taking menswear onto athletically tailored ground in their brand, NUMBER:Lab. Designer/Creative Director Fernandez came from the field of architecture, and is applying his knack for building beautiful and functional structures to address his own frustrations with men’s fashion. “We couldn’t find clothes that fit well and still addressed those needs of performance and quality, and not at haute couture prices,” Luis explains. So with technologically advanced textiles, meticulous math, and a keen aesthetic, men now have options away from the three-piece-suit.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Miuccia Prada took a deep dive into her nylon and satin-lined, leather embossed vaults, and came up driving her hot rod with Elsa Schiaparelli, chatting impossibly the whole way to the CFDA Met Gala. Miu also brought along her favorite bags since ’91, and is giving us a chance we previously thought impossible: to get vintage Prada, immaculately new.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
The prize that launched the careers of Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent is being relaunched this year for a new generation of designers.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Well, it’s taken seven months, a few strong-worded letters, and more than a couple of threats, but New York’s Council of Fashion Designers of America, London’s British Fashion Council, Milan’s Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana and Paris’ Chambre Syndicale have finally come to a compromise over show dates through 2014.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
The Council of Fashion Designers of America has joined forces with the National Resources Defense Council on Clean by Design, a program seeking to significantly reduce the fashion industry’s environmental impact.
Edited by McArthur Joseph
Last week we told you abouteBay & the CFDA‘s 2nd collaboration on limited edition tote bags and now we’re giving you the opportunity to win one.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
If you’re an emerging New York-based designer, you can start looking forward to some good news from the city. The New York City Economic Development Corporation (or the ungainly acronym, NYCEDC) is in the midst of creating the NYC Fashion Production Fund, with the goal of providing loans for up-and-coming fashion designers to produce their lines. The only catch? They kind of need $4 million first.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Following the blockbuster success of their first collaboration — which sold out within 48 hours — the CFDA and eBay have teamed up once again for a new line of ”You Can’t Fake Fashion” totes, with the aim of cracking down on counterfeiting.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Is it really that time again for the biggest prize in American fashion? Yup! The nominees and honorees have been announced for the 2012 CFDA Awards and it’s a full house. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have graduated from the Swarovski Emerging Talent pool to be nominated for womenswear designer of the year for The Row along with last year’s winners Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCullough of Proenza Schouler and perennial favorite Marc Jacobs. Full list of nominees after the jump!
