A host of models, celebrities, and designers will come together to celebrate 50 years of American fashion at this evening's CFDA Awards.
by Justin Fenner
A host of models, celebrities, and designers will come together to celebrate 50 years of American fashion at this evening's CFDA Awards.
Industry veterans Tommy Hilfiger and Rei Kawakubo — who are each being honored with awards — will join nominees Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, Joseph Altuzarra, Phillip Lim, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Meanwhile, Jason Wu, John Varvatos, Olivier Theyskens, Tory Burch, Michael Kors, Donna Karan, Derek Lam, Eddie Borgo, Erin Fetherston, Francisco Costa, Giles Mendel, Gregory Parkinson, Jenna Lyons, Johan Lindeberg, Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai of Vena Cava, Oscar de la Renta, Peter Som, Prabal Gurung, and Zac Posen — who are not nominated — will be among those on hand to show their support.
Models, including Arizona Muse, Candice Swanepoel, Coco Rocha, Constance Jablonski, Crystal Renn, Dree Hemingway, Elettra Wiedemann-Jones, Erin Wasson, Hilary Rhoda, Jacquelyn Jablonski, Jessica Stam, Joan Smalls, Karen Elson, Linda Evangelista, Liu Wen, and Ruby Aldridge are also expect to attend the awards.
Other notable guests will include Carine Roitfeld, Harley Viera Newton, Lauren Santo Domingo, Jessica Chastain, Simon Doonan, Jessica Paré, Dakota Fanning, Zoe Saldana, Gretchen Mol, Kate Bosworth, Solange Knowles, Devon Aoki, Zosia Mamet, Kate Upton, Simon Doonan, Lauren Hutton, and Shaun White, who is rumored to be dating model Bar Refaeli.
The Awards will take place at New York's Lincoln Center starting at 6 p.m. It will also be broadcast online for the first time ever on Tuesday, June 5 at 12 p.m. EST. See a complete list of the evening's nominees and honorees here.
Photo: From left, Robert Geller, Eddie Borgo, and Prabal Gurung after winning at the CFDA Awards in 2011.
