CFDA Nominates Three From Calif.
Trovata, Rodarte and Tom Binns are among the California designers nominated for Council of Fashion Designers of America awards this year.
Costa Mesa, Calif.–based Trovata designers Jeff Halmos, Sam Shipley, Josia Lamberto-Egan and John Whitledge, winners of last year’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award, have been nominated for the 2006 Swarovski Perry Ellis Award for Menswear. Kate and Laura Mulleavy, designers for Pasadena, Calif.–based Rodarte, have been nominated for the Swarovski Perry Ellis Award for Womenswear. Other Swarovski Perry Ellis Award nominees include Duckie Brown, Rag & Bone, Doo-Ri Chung, Thakoon Panichgul, Devi Kroell, Alyssa Norton and Loeffler Randall.
Jewelry designer Tom Binns is up for Accessory Designer of the year, against Marc Jacobs for Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors.
“It would be nice to win the bloody thing to give young designers and designers who aren’t in the clique some hope,” said Binns, a Northern Ireland native, who relocated to Los Angeles’ Venice district two years ago.
Among the CFDA’s other nominees are Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein, Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough for Proenza Schouler, and Marc Jacobs for Marc Jacobs, in the Womenswear category and Thom Browne, Ralph Lauren, and Cloak’s Alexandre Plokhov for Menswear.
Joan Kaner, former senior vice president and fashion director of Neiman Marcus, will receive the Eleanor Lambert Award. Photographer Bruce Weber will receive the Eugenia Sheppard Award. Rochas designer Olivier Theyskens will receive the International Award. Stephen Burrows will receive the Board of Directors’ Special Tribute Award. And CFDA President Stan Herman will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The winners will be announced June 5 at the CFDA’s annual awards ceremony at the New York Public Library.
—Erin Barajas
