June 26th, 2009
A lot of fresh faces won awards this year.
I was most tickled that Anna Sui won a Lifetime achievement award. She’s not a household name, but certainly an outstanding talent whose view enlivens the fashionscape season after season. Although she’s just a baby-boomer, Sui may well feel like she’s done a lifetime of designing. A thoughtful Jack White talked about her impact on pop culture before presenting the statuette.
Rodarte beat out Marc Jacobs AND Narciso Rodriguez for Women’s Wear Designer of the Year. I was surprised. If the award is about influence and capturing fashion’s spirit in that year it’s hard to see how the admittedly innovative Mulleavy sisters won. Unless a lot of Vogue assistants voted.
Menswear was a tie – the other kind of tie.Scott Sternberg for Band of Outsiders and Italo Zucchelli for Calvin Klein. (Where is Calvin? I miss seeing him at these events.)
Swarovski Awards for emerging fashion talent went to Justin Giunta for Subversive Jewellry for his fabulously inventive creations with a punk sensibility and
Alexander Wang – well deserved – for his directional, hard-edge fashions.
Accessories Designer of the Year went to Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler.
Marc Jacobs, gave a shout out to his new “fiance” as he accepted the International Designer of the Year Award for his pace-setting work at Louis Vuitton.
And Michelle Obama (no, she wasn’t there but gave a videotaped thank you) was recognized for her contributions to shopping, I mean to fashion.
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