Fashion Fund CFDA / Vogue celebrates 2012 Winner

Once again, the industry took off his costume, shook his cynicism, and indulge in a meal of chicken pie, the next generation Seventh Avenue designers celebrate over dinner CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund. The fund, which is in its ninth year, provides money and mentoring to promising designers. And over time to continue with its impressive list of winners and finalists, who build their business and gain acclamation, the program has an international standard for the development of talent and fresh air in an industry alive, founded innovation. Prada Top Handles Bags Winner this year was Greg Chait for his knitwear collection based luxuriant The Elder Statesman. Tabitha Simmons, a former stylist and photographer Craig McDean's wife, was a second place finish with his fancy shoes. Simmons and joining the platform finalists was jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer, wife of actor Tobey Maguire, who was teaching his grandmother to make him the balls of the enamel, when Meyer was just thanked 6 years old. You get all the business mentoring. Chait makes $ 300,000; Simmons and Meyer will each receive $ 100,000. The winners were selected from a group of 10 finalists, which contain several well-known brands like Suno and Wes Gordon. The first, designed by Erin Beatty and Max Easter Weis, received considerable media attention because of the focus on ethically responsible production, sourcing many of its materials in Africa and India. And Gordon, a young man with a taste for emerging secular style, was found in the spotlight when the First Lady Michelle Obama wore his jacket with gray metallic Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards "this year. The other finalists were stylist Andrea Lieberman was designer, urban sportswear label Assembly of New York by Greg Armas, jewelry designer Jennifer Fisher, Florence, Italy, native Sofia Sizzi Collection of Giulietta and Illesteva sunglasses team. In recent years, finalists were dominated by New York ready-to-wear designers. This time, however, the field was varied, concentrating nearly half of the designers at Accessories and others who were in Los Angeles. In fact, in the competition for the month designers presented a fashion show in Los Angeles before the compulsory collection of Hollywood stars. The Fashion Fund, which is now an endowment of $ 12 million, was in the wake of the 11 terrorists September, the founder of the American fashion industry left reeling. Young designers who were already operating on a shoe string, were particularly affected. To help them bounce, led by Vogue editor Anna Wintour has organized a group presentation, in the show of the designer Carolina Herrera, where designers are fighting their collections to media and retailers could provided. The event, organized in haste led to the establishment of the Fund. And over the years, including Proenza Schouler designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, Sophie Theallet and Joseph Altuzarra cycled through the program. In fact, it has almost a rite of passage. It has also be a tradition at dinner for a senior designer to create a kind of inspiration and Keynote offers some sympathy. This year, said Burberry Christopher Bailey on his way to the creative director of a company billions of dollars. It was Chelsea Clinton, that Bailey was his friend at least a dozen times in his brief remarks, if anyone asked why she was at a fashion event in the name of established introduced a fashion designer. In listing the benefits Bailey business sense for his skills with social media, the younger Clinton was as methodical as his mother. Emphasis on the authenticity of Bailey and support their younger colleagues, Clinton was as charming as his father. The powerful combination of this DNA led CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg (and wife of Barry Diller, Chairman and CEO of the parent company of The Daily Beast, the IAC) to post-election this prediction: "The majority of us voted for his father many of us. voted for her mother. In a few years we will be able to vote for it. "