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SATURDAY SURF NYC PRINTED COTTON-JERSEY T-SHIRT £38

VALENTINO CAMOUFLAGE-PRINT LEATHER AND SUEDE SNEAKERS £430

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WINNERS & HONOREES OF THE 2013 CFDA FASHION AWARDS!

The 2013 CFDA Fashion Awards took place on Monday, June 3 at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. The annual event recognizes the outstanding contributions made to American fashion by individuals from all areas of the industry and related arts, with awards being given for design excellence in womenswear, menswear, and accessories as well as extraordinary accomplishments in journalism, creative vision, and lifetime achievement. 

Presenting the winners and honorees of 2013 CFDA Fashion Awards: 

Accessories Designer of the Year: Phillip Lim for 3.1 Phillip Lim

Menswear Designer of the Year: Thom Browne 

Womenswear Designer of the Year: Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler

Swarovski Menswear Designer of the Year: Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne for Public School

Swarovski Womenswear Designer of the Year: Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty for Suno Swarovski

Accessories Designer of the Year: Pamela Love The Geoffrey Beene 

Lifetime Achievement Award: Vera Wang The Media 

Award in honor of Eugenia Sheppard: Tim Blanks 

The Founder’s Award in honor of Eleanor Lambert: Oscar de la Renta

The Board of Directors’ Tribute: Colleen Atwood

The International Award: Riccardo Tisci

MR THOM BROWNE, THE INTERVIEW!

PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL DESIGNERS IN MENSWEAR!

There's a prevalence of men showing bare ankles in fashionable circles these days, and we have one man to pin it on: Mr Thom Browne. The Allentown, Pennsylvania-born US designer, whose own rigid uniform is a testament to his bestselling aesthetic, rose to fashion fame when he started his own label in 2001. It was because of the new proportions he introduced to the men's market: tight, upright, proper suits that were just a wee bit shrunken. Whereas Mr Hedi Slimane's silhouette at his first spell at Dior Homme was tight yet subversive, Mr Browne's look is tailored yet seemingly conservative. In the years since his label debuted he's won such awards as the Council of Fashion Designers of America Menswear Designer of the Year and GQ's Designer of the Year. His shows are some of the most anticipated on the menswear fashion circuit: he has shown men in 18th-century inspired clothes for a royal feast in a ballroom in Paris; in New York he did a show inspired by the sport of tennis and showed suits paired with huge crinolines; in Florence, and this was perhaps my favourite show, he had 40 identically dressed men at a phalanx of desks looking more dapper than a whole season of Mad Men. For Mr Browne's most recent show in Paris, he presented a colourful collection of layered cropped jackets and short shorts in patchworks, neons and prepster appliqués. To welcome his eponymous label to MR PORTER, they caught up with the designer to talk about the convenience of wearing suits every day, political style and what he thinks makes for a snappy dresser.

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THOM BROWNE or HOW TO BUILD AN INSTANTLY RECOGNIZABLE BRAND

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