NEW YORK (AP) — Designers Christopher John Rogers and Emily Bode-Aujla for BODE took major honors at the once-a-year Council of Trend Designers of America awards, top a youthful and numerous slate of honorees on fashion’s major evening.
Rogers, 27, whose bold purple ensemble was preferred by Vice President Kamala Harris for her inauguration, received for womenswear and Bode-Aujla for menswear at the glittery ceremony — the style industry’s variation of the Oscars — which was held in individual Wednesday evening after a digital ceremony in 2020 due to the pandemic.
Accepting his award from host Emily Blunt, Rogers spoke of coming to New York in 2016, when “nobody would employ me.” He thanked those who took a likelihood on him, “all the remarkable people today who can understand what I’m making an attempt to do.” Just very last calendar year, Rogers gained the American rising designer award.
The beforehand declared Trend Icon award — the most visible superstar award of the once-a-year occasion — went to Zendaya, for what the CFDA referred to as her “global impression on fashion.” The group pointed out in a assertion that the actor-singer, 25, experienced been a supporter of the two emerging and established designers. It also cited her outfits line Daya by Zendaya, introduced in 2013 and showcasing “gender-fluid designs in a full-dimension variety.”
Zendaya was released by the 2010 recipient of the award, Iman, who observed the new receiver was the youngest still to get the honor.
“Fashion did a thing unique for me,” Zendaya told the crowd, citing “the extraordinary gift of transformation, the capacity to be confident and embody all these distinct figures and be literally any person I desired to be.”
A spokesperson for labels like Lancôme and Valentino, Zendaya is now starring in “Dune.” In 2020 she received the Emmy for direct actress in a drama for her functionality in “Euphoria.”
Previous Trend Icon recipients have integrated Beyoncé, Woman Gaga, Pharrell Williams, Rihanna, and Jennifer Lopez.
Actor Anya Taylor-Joy, finest acknowledged for the strike Netflix sequence “The Queen’s Gambit,” was named Experience of the Year, a new award this yr.
Launched by presenter Cara Delevingne as a “face that released a thousand shipments of chess sets,” Taylor-Joy thanked “everyone in this area that’s authorized me to understand about trend,” calling it “the finest education and learning I could question for.”
The accessories design and style award went to Telfar Clemens for Telfar, and the award for American rising designer went to Edvin Thompson for Theophilio.
Georgian designer Demna Gvasalia for Balenciaga won the award for intercontinental womenswear designer and Grace Wales Bonner for Wales Bonner took the prize for global menswear designer.
The Geoffrey Beene life span accomplishment award went to Dapper Dan. The Harlem-based mostly designer was the initially Black designer to acquire the honor.
And the founder’s award was presented by Vogue’s Anna Wintour to Aurora James for the 15 Percent Pledge, which calls on stores and firms to commit a part of their yearly paying for electric power to Black-owned businesses.
Blunt hosted the proceedings at THE POOL + THE GRILL in the Seagram Developing on Park Avenue.
Nominations for the designer types had been submitted by the CFDA Trend Awards Guild, created up of users of the CFDA, along with style retailers, journalists, and stylists.
