The event, which is considered the Oscar of American fashion, was held September 14, 2020, entirely virtually on the platform dedicated to New York Fashion Week, Cfda Runway 360, and saw the participation of 540 fashion professionals.
Tom Ford has nominated the winners and related nominations as Council of Fashion Designers of America.
While Kim Jones turned out to be the "Menswear Designer of the Year" for Dior, already at the artistic guide of the Fendi woman.
Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino won the award for the Womenswear category.
Many names have stood out, including Gabriela Hearst, Jennifer Fisher, Ashley & Mary-Kate Olsen, and Elfar Clemens.
Here is the complete list of nominations, prizes and winners :
- International Men's Designer of the Year award : Kim Jones for Dior
Nominations : Craig Green, Dries Van Noten, Kim Jones for Dior, Jonathan Anderson for Loewe, Virgil Abloh for Louis Vuitton.
- International Women's Designer of the Year award : Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino
Nominations : Daniel Lee, Dries Van Noten, Miuccia Prada, Rick Owens, Pierpaolo Piccioli.
- American Womenswear Designer of the year award : Gabriela Hearst
Nominations : Gabriela Hearst, Marc Jacobs, Ashley Olsen & Mary Kate Olsen, Tom Ford.
- American Menswear Designer of the year award : Kerby Jean-Raymond for Pyer Moss
Nominations : Emily Adams Bode, Kerby Jean-Raymond, Thom Browne, Todd Snyder, Tom Ford
- American Accessories Designer of the year award : Telfar Clemens for the Telfar
Nominations : the Olsens again, Gabriela Hearst, Jennifer Fisher for Jennifer Fisher Jewelry, Stuart Vevers for Coach and Telfar Clemens for Telfar.
- American Emerging Designer of the year award : Christopher John Rogers
Nominations : Christopher John Rogers, Peter Do, Reese Cooper, Kenneth Nicholson, Sarah Staudinger & George Augusto.
FOCUS ON > Gabriela Hearst: the Womenswear Designer of the year award.
Gabriela Hearst is a luxury women’s and men’s ready-to-wear and accessories collection, built on the principles of timelessness, uncompromising quality and sustainability.
The winners of Gabriela : 2016/17 - International Woolmark Prize for Womenswear and the 2018 recipient of the Pratt Institute Fashion Visionary Award T
She was nominated in 2017 for the CFDA Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent}} and in March 2018 received a nomination for the CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year.
In 2018, she was appointed to the board of trustees of Save the Children.
In February 2020, Gabriela Hearst announced its partnership with EON, a leading digital identity platform for the fashion and apparel industry, connecting products throughout their lifecycle by unlocking visibility, traceability, and insight through a QR code.
The premise of the Gabriela Hearst Autumn Winter 2020 collection was to devise further techniques to work with waste that would not compromise the quality or aesthetic values of the company. Antique remnants of Turkish rugs were pieced together for outerwear, existing pieces of cashmere outerwear from prior collections were deconstructed and re-assembled with blanket stitch, and recycled cashmere was reprinted and repurposed. This idea permeated both the collection and creative direction of the show. Recycled shredded paper bales from a recycling facility in Brooklyn were used as set design. The paper bales were kept in their original size and condition and then returned to the recycling company.
