The Council of Fashion Designers of America has revealed the nominees and honorees for the 2022 CFDA Fashion Awards in partnership with Amazon Fashion.
The event will take place on November 7 at Cipriani South Street at Casa Cipriani in Manhattan.
Competing for American Womenswear Designer are Catherine Holstein for Khaite, Christopher John Rogers (2021 winner), Gabriela Hearst, LaQuan Smith and Peter Do.
In the running for American Menswear Designer of the Year are Emily Bode Aujla for Bode (2021 winner), Jerry Lorenzo for Fear of God, Mike Amiri for Amiri, Thom Browne for Thom Browne New York and Willy Chavarria.
The nominees for American Accessories Designer of the Year are: Aurora James for Brother Vellies, Brandon Blackwood, Raul Lopez for Luar, Stuart Vevers for Coach and Telfar Clemens for Telfar (2021 winner).
The nominees for American Designer of the Year are Bach Mai, Carly Mark for Puppets and Puppets, Colm Dellane for KidSuper, Elena Velez and Lauren Harwell Godfrey for Harwell Godfrey.
The Board of Trustees Award will be presented posthumously to Virgil Abloh to honor the late designer’s contribution to global fashion. Abloh, the late artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear collection and chief executive of Off-White, died on November 21, 2021.
Lenny Kravitz, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor, will be awarded the 2022 CFDA Fashion Icon.
The Positive Social Impact Award will go to Slaysians from The House of Slay with Prabal Gurung, Laura Kim, Phillip Lim, Tina Leung and Ezra William.
The Founder’s Award, in honor of Eleanor Lambert, will be presented to Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator-in-Charge at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Chrome Hearts’ Laurie Lynn Stark and Richard Stark will receive the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Eugenia Sheppard Media Award goes to Patti Wilson, a fashion designer.
The Prize for Environmental Sustainability will be awarded to the United Nations and will be accepted by Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.
This year, the CFDA will introduce a new designer award. The inaugural recipient is Law Roach, who works with celebrities such as Zendaya, Lewis Hamilton, Hunter Shafer, Halsey and Venus Williams, among others.
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To mark the CFDA’s 60th anniversary, the organization is adding a special anniversary award, which goes to longtime CFDA member Jeffrey Banks.
Additional award winners will be named in the coming weeks.
“The 2022 CFDA Fashion Awards will celebrate the best and brightest of American fashion talent, but also the CFDA’s landmark 60th anniversary,” said Steven Kolb, CFDA Chief Executive Officer. “This year’s nominees reflect the renewed excitement around American fashion created by designers who are redefining the future of our industry. The CFDA thanks Amazon Fashion for supporting the awards.”
Muge Erdirik Dogan, president of Amazon Fashion, added: “The CFDA Fashion Awards are an opportunity to recognize and applaud designers who are using their creativity to transform and advance the industry. Amazon Fashion shares a common mission with the CFDA to support America’s leading designers who have been influential in their endeavors, from sustainability to innovation. Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees and honorees.”
Nominations for each award category were submitted by the CFDA Fashion Awards Association, made up of CFDA members, along with top fashion retailers, journalists and designers.
To mark the CFDA’s 60th anniversary, the awards will be hosted by CFDA members Joseph Altuzarra, Gabriela Hearst, Aurora James, Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough.
