Trovata, Binns Win CFDA Award
West Coast golden boys Jeff Halmos, Josia Lamberto-Egan, Sam Shipley and John Whitledge of Trovata, and self-proclaimed outsider and jewelry designer Tom Binns have won top prizes at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Fashion Awards.
At its annual award ceremony at the New York Public Library on June 5, the CFDA honored Trovata with the Swarovski Perry Ellis Award for Emerging Talent in the menswear category. This is the second CFDA nod for the Costa Mesa, Calif.–based contemporary apparel line. In 2005, the quartet of designers won the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award.
Binns, whose competition for the Accessory Designer of the Year Award included Marc Jacobs for Marc Jacobs, and Michael Kors, said he didn’t expect to win the award. The Irish-born designer produces trademark jumbled high-low necklaces, which are a favorite at Maxfield in Los Angeles.
Pasadena, Calif.–based designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte lost the Swarovski Perry Ellis Award for Emerging Talent in the womenswear category to New York designer Doo-Ri Chung.
Other CFDA winners include Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein for the Womenswear Designer of the Year and Thom Browne for Menswear Designer of the Year. —Erin Barajas
