{"id":271668,"date":"2025-11-04T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/271668\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:18:14","slug":"who-were-the-2025-cfda-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/271668\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Were the 2025 CFDA Award Winners?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Sara Moonves with Jennifer Lawrence, Andre Walker and A$AP Rocky at the 2025 CFDA Awards
\n Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images\n <\/p>\n

Industry stalwarts and emerging talents came together on Monday for American fashion\u2019s second-biggest night of the year \u2014 after the Met Gala, that is. At the 2025 Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards<\/a>, the trade organization\u2019s annual fundraising gala and awards ceremony, top awards went to Ralph Lauren, Thom Browne, and Andre Walker, among others. This year, Rihanna \u2014\u00a0who memorably debuted her naked dress<\/a> at the event in 2014 \u2014\u00a0was back to support her guy A$AP Rocky, who was honored with the same Fashion Icon award she picked up back then. \u201cYou won this so long ago, remember what I told you?\u201d said A$AP Rocky from the podium as he accepted his award, which he dedicated to Harlem and New York City. \u201cI said, \u2018You inspire me \u2014 I\u2019m going to win that shit one day.\u2019 And look, we did it, baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Laura Harrier with designer Rachel Scott
\n Photo: Jamie McCarthy\/WireImage\n <\/p>\n

The CFDA Awards can often feel repetitive; many of the same designers win the same awards, year after year. But this year\u2019s event came at a particularly challenging time for American designers, who are struggling with tariffs<\/a> and a slowdown in the luxury market. \u201cThis administration, to begin with, has made things very challenging,\u201d said Rachel Scott<\/a>, the new creative director of Proenza Schouler, before the ceremony. The Jamaican designer won the CFDA award for womenswear last year for her label, Diotima. \u201cMy everyday is thinking about the ICE raids and thinking about our climate \u2014 Jamaica was really impacted last week.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just gets harder and harder \u2026 the amount of things that one has to do to make a collection great and run a company,\u201d said Zoe Latta, one half of Eckhaus Latta, on the red carpet. \u201cThe more you want, the harder it is,\u201d added Mike Eckhaus.<\/p>\n

Onstage at the American Natural History Museum, however, no one talked about politics, tariffs, or the mayoral election. Jennifer Lawrence showed up for her friend, W\u2019s editor-in-chief, Sara Moonves, who won the Media Award, and Naomi Campbell gave Alaia\u2019s Pieter Mulier the International Award. Browne, who won the menswear designer of the year, presented courtier and designer Ralph Rucci with the Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n

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\n Designer Colleen Allen with Lily Allen
\n Photo: Taylor Hill\/FilmMagic\n <\/p>\n

Read on for more highlights from the 2025 CFDA Awards.<\/p>\n

Bezoses on the Brain
Amazon Fashion has sponsored the CFDA Awards since 2022, but this year the corporate tie-in felt even more present during the ceremony. Host Teyana Taylor opened the ceremony with some quips about the luxury of two-day shipping, and later, CFDA CEO Steven Kolb thanked an absent Lauren Sanchez Bezos for donating $6.25 million to the organization to start a new sustainable-fashion initiative that will include scholarships and awards.<\/p>\n

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\n Teyana Taylor wearing Thom Browne
\n Photo: Lexie Moreland\/WWD via Getty Images\n <\/p>\n

The Olsens Emerged
We rarely see Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen in public, much less hear them speak. But last night, they picked up their fourth award for accessories designers of the year. Ashley, with her hair in an Olsen tuck, gave a perfunctory speech on behalf of the sisters, who matched in long tuxedo coats with minimal jewelry (a brooch on Ashley, a chain necklace on Mary-Kate).<\/p>\n

The Year of Ralph Lauren
The king of American fashion is no stranger to the CFDA Awards, having won numerous awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award, since the first ceremony in 1981. In 2018, much of the show was dedicated to celebrating his 50th anniversary in business. But this time, Lauren won for womenswear, a smaller but faster-growing part of his empire, which is growing again after years of turnaround efforts. The designer, now 86 years old, thanked the audience for their standing ovation from his table, where he stood and waved but did not make a speech.<\/p>\n

Ashlynn Park won the Emerging Designer Award
The designer\u2019s namesake label, Ashlyn, is only five years old but already one of our favorites on the New York Fashion Week calendar each season \u2014 noteworthy in an industry where female designers rarely get the top jobs and recognition.<\/p>\n

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\n Designer Ashlynn Park
\n Photo: Lexie Moreland\/WWD via Getty Images\n <\/p>\n

Amber Valletta Celebrated Donatella Versace by Wearing that Famous Green Dress
Before Jennifer Lopez broke the internet by wearing the green nearly naked green jungle-print Versace dress in 2000, model Amber Valletta wore it first on the runway in the early years of Donatella Versace\u2019s takeover of her late brother\u2019s label. The model wore it again to honor Donatella in her first year of retirement from Versace, as the designer picked up the Positive Change Award for her philanthropic work.<\/p>\n

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\n Amber Valletta with Donatella Versace
\n Photo: Lexie Moreland\/WWD via Getty Images\n <\/p>\n

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