Marc Jacobs Sews Up Ninth CFDA Award, Rag & Bone Wins for Menswear

Last night Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall got all glammed up for the 2010 Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Awards. While some of this year’s honorees were announced in advance, along with a special tribute to the late Alexander McQueen, there was plenty of envelope-please suspense for the designer of the year and Swarovski award honors (both bestowed in three categories: womenswear, menswear, and accessory design). Womenswear designer of the year honors went to Marc Jacobs, who bested fellow nominees Donna Karan and Alexander Wang to take home his ninth CFDA award. For those keeping a tally at home, Jacobs has now won thrice each for accessories and womenswear, once for menswear, and was honored with the Perry Ellis award for young talent way back in 1987; last year he (and his work for Louis Vuitton) won the international Award. Menswear was a tougher call. Seeing as nominee Tom Ford took the category fairly recently (2008), our money was on the preptastic Michael Bastian, but rugged Rag & Bone triumphed, a feat foreshadowed by designers David Neville and Marcus Wainwright‘s Swarovski award win in 2007. Lucite wizard Alexis Bittar won accessory designer of the year, emerging as the clear—or at least translucent—winner over the Proenza Schouler boys and Jacobs. Meanwhile, in the emerging designers bracket, the Swarovski awards went to Jason Wu (womenswear), Richard Chai (menswear), and Wang (accessory design).

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