New York Magazine recently spoke with Peter Som on what really goes on at CFDA meetings.  They asked him what everyone talks about at meetings. Check it here.

What’s everyone talking about in there?
We’ve been deciding what the color is for next season.

What is it?
I can’t tell you! I can’t tell you! It’s in the rainbow. Wink, wink.

How does the color get decided?
It’s kind of the vibe in the air. But I can’t tell you. I’d be disbarred from the CFDA.

Isn’t the CFDA really some secret designers’ cabal?
It’s sort of like Hogwarts. There’s some floating candles and we all spin the magic fashion dreidel and then talk to the talking hat, the talking Philip Tracy hat.

It’s kind of weird that all these designers sit down and talk about things like the next color of the season.

Takes away a little bit of the individuality that used to flourish through the industry.

I guess that’s why we love indies so much. No rules, just full artistic influence.

Fuck trends and seasonal colors!!!

Thom Browne’s Brookl Brothers collaboration is rumored to be ending. The New York Post reports, “The retailer signed Browne soon after his skinny suits earned him a CFDA award for menswear in 2006. But Browne’s shorter pants might not be selling too well. After all, can you really see all the men in the Hamptons running to the Golden Pair flashing so much sock?”

The Post also reports his skinny suits haven’t been flying off the racks at Bergdorf Goodman, which still has his 2006 tuxes on the sales floor.

Maybe we aren’t ready for the ’short’ pants look, and maybe we just don’t get it! But you never know when Williamsburg hipsters are going to rock the look for the world to follow.

CFDA has decided (FINALLY) to host a panel discussion called “The Beauty of Health.” Hosted by DVF, Micheal Kors, and Ali Micheal (former anorexic, turned down for being “too fat”), models and industry types will speak about the dangers of eating disorders (and what Tyra Banks now calls disordered eating).

My main question is “What took soo long”? This has been an epidemic for years, and only now (after a select few have come forth and spoken out, like Ali) is the CFDA getting involved!!!

Victoria Beckham hopes to one day with a CFDA award?!?

Speaking to US celebrity magazine PEOPLE at the CFDA awards on Monday night in New York she said, “I love fashion and I always have[but] I’ve got a long, long way to go and am working very, very hard with my own line.”

Currently Victoria designs jeans and sunglasses for DVB by Victoria Beckham (which stands for David and Victoria Beckham – natch!).

“DVB, my clothing line has been tremendously successful, but I’m a starter at this. I’ve got a long way to go before I could win a CFDA of my own.” she said.

How can this plastic bimbo compare herself with the likes of Tom Ford, Proenza Schouler, or even Marc Jacobs. She claims her line has done well/is doing well when I quite recently remember her line being dropped from certain boutiques due to lack of sales and promotion on her part. So what the hell is she talking about? Just cuz she got luck with her “hottest man on the planet” husband (of course, second to my future husband), doesn’t mean she’s any less of a tramp who has NO business designing clothes.

Weigh in indies.  Does Victoria deserve a CFDA Award?

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) presented their 2008 fashion awards last night to following winners

Womenswear Designer of the Year:
Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein Collection (EH!)

Menswear Designer of the Year:
Tom Ford (YAY!)

Accessories Designer of the Year:
Tory Burch (BOO!)

Swarovski Awards for Emerging Talent:
Womenswear:
Kate and Laura Mulleavy for Rodarte (YAY YAY YAY!)

Menswear:
Scott Sternberg for Band of Outsiders

Accessory Design:
Philip Crangi

Alexander Wang hit Uniqlo this morning at 11am (with a two hour preview for friends and family which opened at 9). The exclusive five-piece dress collection has only 200 units to refill with, and will be restocking “a really small amount” on Monday as well, as mentioned in NYMag.

“Wang didn’t have long to linger with his fans; he’s off to shoot his resort look book. And then to get ready for Monday’s CFDAs. He’ll be going with model pal Erin Wasson. She wasn’t involved at all in the Uniqlo collection, but she’s a “great friend and it’s good to go to those events with someone that you’re comfortable with, that you want to hang out with.” Asked about his nomination, Wang mentioned he wasn’t nervous, just honored to be going. After, his focus shifts to his spring 2009 collection. And then … shoes! Accessories fanatics rejoice.”

Thom Browne

Tom Ford

The field of men’s wear designers nominated for the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Fashion Awards this year is a testament to the fresh blood coursing through the industry’s reinvigorated veins. Of all six nominees, Thom Browne’s label has been around the longest—a mere eight seasons. Tom Ford’s giant profile dwarfs the competition’s, but his business is the newest, having launched just last year. They’re both up for Menswear Designer of the Year against Michael Bastian, who graduated into that senior award category from the emerging-designer group, perhaps by dint of his creative directorship at Bill Blass. Among the nominees for the Swarovski Award for Menswear, Tim Hamilton is the sole returnee. He faces the former fashion editor Patrik Ervell and Band of Outsiders’ Scott Sternberg, a former Hollywood agent and the only West Coaster in the bunch. Here we present a cross section of all these fresh perspectives.

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