New York Fashion Week may be over, but the CFDA has another headline for you: the Council of Fashion Designers of America has revealed the honorees and nominees for the 2024 CFDA Awards.
Last November, Thom Browne hosted his first CFDA Awards as chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America at the American Museum of Natural History. There was a huge whale on the ceiling and tiny ones floating on the crusts of the chicken pot pies for dinner. There was Anne Hathaway in a Ralph Lauren denim gown waxing poetic about the joys of fashion. And there was Serena Williams accepting her Fashion Icon award from the previous year’s Fashion Innovation award winner Kim Kardashian.
The Awards are returning this year on October 28 and will once again be hosted at the Museum. Amazon Fashion will continue to serve as the presenting partner, while Shop with Google will present the American Emerging Designer of the Year award.
As a touching tribute, the CFDA Board of Directors is renaming its namesake award to the Isabel Toledo Board of Director’s Tribute to honor the all-American iconoclast Toledo. She will receive the award posthumously; it will be accepted by her husband, Ruben Toledo.
This year, Daniel Roseberry of Schiaparelli will receive the International Designer of the Year Award, while Michael Kors will be presented the Positive Change Award for this work fighting hunger with Watch Hunger Stop, his support of God’s Love We Deliver, and of the United Nations World Food Programme. The Media Award in honor of Eugenia Shepard will be presented to Annie Leibovitz, while the recipient of the Founder’s Award in honor of Eleanor Lambert will be Hamish Bowles. Stephen Burrows, a legend in the American fashion landscape, will receive his well-deserved flowers as he is to be presented with the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award.
Khaite’s Catherine Holstein, who won for Womenswear Designer of the Year the last two years is absent in the category this season: is this the year Tory Burch wins big, or will Diotima’s Rachel Scott stage an upset? This year, CFDA chairman Thom Browne is nominated twice, for both the menswear and womenswear prizes, a rare feat; could he swing both? Will Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen of The Row, at this point perennial nominees, add another Accessories Designer of the Year Award to their mantle?