And the Fashion Fund winner is ...
... Rogan Gregory of Rogan.
Gregory, of the socially and ecologically conscious labels Edun and Loomstate, was named the winner of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award. The award, which comes with $200,000, includes a year of mentoring from an industry executive. Past winners Doo-Ri Chung, Trovata and Proenza Schouler's Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough.
Runners-up for this year were Phillip Lim of 3.1 Phillip Lim and jewelry designer Philip Crangi. Both will receive $50,000, as well as mentoring.
The winners were announced Thursday at the 7th on Sale gala in the 69th Regiment Armory here, which benefited the CFDA/Vogue Initiative for HIV/AIDS.
Loomstate is a line of t-shirts and jeans made from organic cotton. Edun is his fashion line produced with Bono and his wife, Ali, that is designed to bring trade and jobs to poor areas in Africa, Peru and India.
Finalists were selected from 101 applications. They were: Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders, Erin Fetherston, Gabriel Asfour, Angela Donhauser and Adi Gil of Threeasfour, Nunthirat Koi Suwannagate of Koi, Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai of Vena Cava, Michael Bastian and Victoria Bartlett of VPL. Beginning this year, all finalists will receive mentoring and support from the CFDA's business advisory committee.
Notables on the selection committee were CFDA president and noted designer Diane von Furstenbergl CFDA executive director Steven Kolb and associate director Lisa Smilor; Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and fashion news director Sally Singer; Barneys New York vice president and fashion director Julie Gilhart; Jeffrey president Jeffrey Kalinsky; Theory president and founder Andrew Rosen; Coach president and executive creative director Reed Krakoff, and Gap executive vice president of design Patrick Robinson.
The fund is sponsored by Gap and underwritten by Liz Claiborne Inc., Lord & Taylor, L'Oreal Paris, Barneys New York, Coach, Juicy Couture, Kellwood Co., Nordstrom, Theory and Vogue.
Gregory, of the socially and ecologically conscious labels Edun and Loomstate, was named the winner of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award. The award, which comes with $200,000, includes a year of mentoring from an industry executive. Past winners Doo-Ri Chung, Trovata and Proenza Schouler's Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough.
Runners-up for this year were Phillip Lim of 3.1 Phillip Lim and jewelry designer Philip Crangi. Both will receive $50,000, as well as mentoring.
The winners were announced Thursday at the 7th on Sale gala in the 69th Regiment Armory here, which benefited the CFDA/Vogue Initiative for HIV/AIDS.
Loomstate is a line of t-shirts and jeans made from organic cotton. Edun is his fashion line produced with Bono and his wife, Ali, that is designed to bring trade and jobs to poor areas in Africa, Peru and India.
Finalists were selected from 101 applications. They were: Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders, Erin Fetherston, Gabriel Asfour, Angela Donhauser and Adi Gil of Threeasfour, Nunthirat Koi Suwannagate of Koi, Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai of Vena Cava, Michael Bastian and Victoria Bartlett of VPL. Beginning this year, all finalists will receive mentoring and support from the CFDA's business advisory committee.
Notables on the selection committee were CFDA president and noted designer Diane von Furstenbergl CFDA executive director Steven Kolb and associate director Lisa Smilor; Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and fashion news director Sally Singer; Barneys New York vice president and fashion director Julie Gilhart; Jeffrey president Jeffrey Kalinsky; Theory president and founder Andrew Rosen; Coach president and executive creative director Reed Krakoff, and Gap executive vice president of design Patrick Robinson.
The fund is sponsored by Gap and underwritten by Liz Claiborne Inc., Lord & Taylor, L'Oreal Paris, Barneys New York, Coach, Juicy Couture, Kellwood Co., Nordstrom, Theory and Vogue.
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