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How the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Actually Picks Its Winner
A revenue cap, a nine-member committee and an October gala decide which American designer walks away with $300,000.
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Designers profiles the people making the collections: their training, their studios, their material habits and the constraints they work under. Coverage spans debut labels and established houses changing hands. Suited to readers who follow careers across seasons and want the background before the reviews arrive.
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Why Resort and Pre-Fall Exist Between the Two Main Runway Seasons
Twice a year, fall/winter and spring/summer ready-to-wear collections move down the runway in New York, London, Milan and Paris, generating the images most closely tied to a season's identity.
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Hussein Chalayan, the Designer Who Buries Dresses and Calls It Research
Graduate dresses dug out of a garden, furniture that becomes clothing, a collaboration with Swarovski crystal on animatronic gowns — fashion's most consistent engineer of ideas.
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Telfar Clemens, the Designer Who Priced Democracy In
The Liberia-born, Queens-raised designer built an independent house on one radical sentence — 'not for you, for everyone' — and made a $150-ish bag the most contested object in fashion.
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Pierpaolo Piccioli, the Colourist Who Brought Couture Back to Valentino
Two decades inside one house, sole direction from 2016, a couture revival built on colour and craft — and a 2024 departure that reset one of Italy's biggest names.
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Grace Wales Bonner Made Scholarship a Fashion Signature
A Central Saint Martins graduate who won the LVMH Prize within two years of her first show built a house where research, music and tailoring carry equal weight.