LONDON — The Vogue Awards, the annual fundraising occasion hosted by the British Vogue Council, might be held Monday at Royal Albert Corridor with a slew of celebrities and designers attending.
Among the many nominees competing in varied classes this 12 months are Miuccia Prada, Jonathan Anderson, John Galliano and Kim Jones.
Classes embody Mannequin of the 12 months, British Menswear Designer, British Womenswear Designer, Designer of the 12 months, BFC Basis Award, Isabella Blow Award for Vogue Creator, Excellent Achievement Award and Chief of Change.
There’s one new class, British Equipment Designer, which is supposed to spotlight the nation’s jewellery, millinery and footwear creators.
The nominees for the class embody Anna Jewsbury for Completedworks; Helen Kirkum for Helen Kirkum Studio; Jack Cannon and Joe Gelb for Hatton Labs; Rosh Mahtani for Alighieri, and Stephen Jones for Stephen Jones.
This 12 months’s trophy is 3D-printed and was designed by the British Nigerian interdisciplinary artist Jade Adeyemi.
A sequence of particular awards might be handed out throughout the night time, with Tom Ford being honored with the Excellent Achievement Award.
The American designer offered his namesake label to The Estée Lauder Cos. in 2022 in a deal that valued the enterprise at $2.8 billion. He shot to fame after serving to flip Gucci into one of many hottest manufacturers of the ’90s.
Gucci’s success beneath Ford and then-chief govt officer Domenico De Sole paved the way in which for the formation of one in all Europe’s greatest luxurious conglomerates beneath the-then PPR, now known as Kering. Ford was additionally the inventive director of Yves Saint Laurent from 1999 to 2004.
Ford parted methods with Kering in 2004 and launched his namesake label the next 12 months. The model’s profitable magnificence enterprise is managed by proprietor Estée Lauder, whereas the style collections are produced by Zegna Group through a licensing deal.
Earlier this 12 months, Haider Ackermann was named inventive director of the model, succeeding Peter Hawkings.
Ford, in an announcement, stated the award is “extremely particular to me, as I’ve spent an excessive amount of my life in London. Throughout my 35 years within the vogue world, I’ve targeted on creativity and the love of magnificence and magnificence. Vogue and movie are each collaborative efforts. One has to have a imaginative and prescient after which talk that imaginative and prescient to a group of gifted folks, and I wish to acknowledge all of these individuals who have supported me alongside the way in which.”
A$AP Rocky might be honored as a Cultural Innovator for his resounding impression on the inventive industries and in style tradition this 12 months, from his Paris Vogue Week debut with American Sabotage to designing the retro-futuristic neighborhood within the Moncler’s The Metropolis of Genius in Shanghai.
“By means of these collections and the promotion of his upcoming album Don’t Be Dumb, he has firmly positioned himself on the intersection of tradition and innovation. We’re additionally extremely grateful for his continued assist of UK designers and retail,” stated Caroline Rush, chief govt officer on the BFC.
The multi-disciplinary artist has logged 17.5 billion streams of his music and three.5 billion mixed views on YouTube since his emergence in 2011. He’s additionally broadly thought to be a vogue icon, showing in campaigns together with Bottega Veneta, Calvin Klein, Gucci, Courvoisier, Dior, Mercedes Benz, Moncler, Guess, and Fenty Pores and skin.
American photographer Tyler Mitchell is that this 12 months’s recipient of the Isabella Blow Award for Vogue Creator.
The 29-year-old artist rose to fame after capturing Beyoncé for the quilt of the September 2018 difficulty of American Vogue. Mitchell has since launched new narratives round magnificence and need to an trade that’s historically been dominated by white, male photographers.
His photographs have been acquired for a number of personal and public collections, together with The Museum of Fashionable Artwork in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, and the Nationwide Portrait Gallery in London. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in galleries worldwide.
Mitchell stated the popularity “affirms the need and energy of storytelling by means of the attractive marriage of image-making and vogue. And it affirms the significance of making areas the place new voices and visions can flourish. This award is a reminder that vogue is not only about what we put on, however about how we see ourselves and the world.”
Remo Ruffini, chairman and CEO of Moncler SpA, might be honored with the Trailblazer Award for his management and inventive imaginative and prescient in creating disruptive concepts on the firm, reminiscent of Moncler Genius.
Since buying Moncler in 2003, Ruffini has undertaken a world model reset and elevated the Italian outerwear model to a luxurious positioning. He led the corporate to an inventory on the Milan Inventory Change in 2013 and expanded Moncler right into a vogue group with the acquisition of Stone Island in 2021.
In 2018, Ruffini launched Moncler Genius, which aimed to deepen the model’s cultural relevance within the digital period, through pioneering collaborations with British abilities reminiscent of Craig Inexperienced, Jonathan Anderson, Richard Quinn and Simone Rocha.
In 2019, Ruffini was named the winner of the Enterprise Chief award on the British Vogue Awards. The British Vogue Awards was rebranded as The Vogue Awards in 2020, reflecting its embrace of worldwide, in addition to British, design expertise.
Moncler Genius now’s a platform for co-creation, with companions in artwork, design, leisure, music, sport and tradition.
Relating to the respect, Ruffini stated, “Creativity lives the place desires meet power. That is how we construct our inventive imaginative and prescient in Moncler, in a relentless pursuit of the extraordinary. I’m grateful to the good minds — each inside and past the corporate — who’ve joined us on this journey, and am excited for these but to return, every sharing their distinctive ‘genius’ in shaping our inventive journey collectively.”
Gucci will obtain a particular recognition award for the model’s cruise 2025 “We Will At all times Have London” marketing campaign.
The marketing campaign was an extension of inventive director Sabato De Sarno’s cruise present at Tate Fashionable in Could, the place he laid down a carpet of greenery on the museum’s poured concrete flooring for a set impressed by the nation’s lush gardens, greenery and fabulous materials.
The marketing campaign, which options Debbie Harry, Kelsey Lu, Alaato Jazyper and Yanan Wan, was captured by the photographer and activist Nan Goldin as a tribute to London’s inventive spirit and its affect on world vogue.
Each Gucci and De Sarno share a private hyperlink to the British capital. Model founder Guccio Gucci labored at The Savoy lodge within the late nineteenth century. His statement of the friends’ baggage impressed him to create his personal line of luxurious suitcases and baggage.
De Sarno associates London with music, tradition and artwork. He stated he loves town’s “conflict of various cultures,” and listed his favourite spots as Tate Fashionable, for its Brutalist structure; town’s surrounding countryside, and the Rivoli Ballroom, the Nineteen Fifties website in southeast London famed for its authentic decor.
For her contribution to the style trade, Sophia Neophitou-Apostolou of 10 Journal will even be honored with a particular recognition award throughout the ceremony.
A extremely revered determine within the London vogue scene, she launched 10 Journal in 2000, has expanded the ten franchise to males’s vogue, and has launched world editions in Australia, the U.S., Japan and, most lately, Germany.
She has additionally labored intently with manufacturers together with Antonio Berardi, Roland Mouret, Richard Nicoll, Katharine Hamnett, Sinha Stanic, Elie Saab and Pringle of Scotland, and had a decade-long inventive partnership with Victoria’s Secret.
Neophitou-Apostolou stated she felt “actually honored” in regards to the award.
“It’s beautiful to be to get the popularity, however that’s not why we do it. None of us does it for that. We do it to have a platform to create, to be impressed and to ask different folks and nurture the world we stay in. I’m additionally right here to assist the designers obtain what they want, give them platforms, and discover options for them. And it’s nice when somebody says ‘Nicely completed,’” she advised WWD.
Being honored for her contributions to the style trade and longstanding dedication to British excellence and innovation, the doyenne of the household enterprise was appointed to the board of administrators in 1968 after the sudden demise of her husband, John Barbour.
In 1973, she turned chairman of the now 130-year-old firm and has led it for greater than 50 years.
Within the Eighties she designed three of the model’s bestselling jacket types: the Bedale, the Beaufort and the Border. The jackets proceed to be in style right this moment as they’ve reached cult standing on TikTok.
Barbour has additionally undertaken high-profile collaborations with manufacturers together with Erdem, Ganni and Gucci Continuum, rising its visibility within the vogue trade.
The British royals are additionally longtime followers.
Barbour obtained a string of royal warrants from the late Duke of Edinburgh in 1974; the late Queen Elizabeth in 1982, and King Charles, then Prince of Wales, in 1987. In 2021, King Charles unveiled a plaque on the Barbour manufacturing unit in England to mark the centenary of the corporate’s re-waxing service.
Barbour has additionally launched a number of charitable initiatives throughout her decades-spanning profession.
In 1988 she based the Barbour Basis to assist charities and essential causes, primarily within the northeast of England. It has donated greater than 29 million kilos thus far. In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, she used the corporate’s manufacturing unit in South Shields, England, to make PPE for the Nationwide Well being Service.
American actress, author and producer Issa Rae will obtain the Pandora Chief of Change Award.
Actress and comic Yvonne Orji, Rae’s “Insecure” costar and shut good friend, will current the award to the multihyphenate on the ceremony.
From the award-winning internet sequence “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Woman” to the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated sequence “Insecure,” Rae’s work has been celebrated for its illustration of Black girls.
In 2020, Rae based Hoorae, a media firm devoted to creating content material that champions various storytelling. That 12 months Rae additionally turned a co-owner and face of vegan hair care line Sienna Naturals.
Rae has additionally labored with the nonprofit group Vacation spot Crenshaw, a venture dedicated to empowering Black Angelenos.
Under is the total listing of the nominees.
Designer of the 12 months
Mannequin of the 12 months
- Alex Consani
- Alva Claire
- Amelia Grey
- Anok Yai
- Liu Wen
- Mona Tougaard
British Menswear Designer of the 12 months
- Craig Inexperienced for Craig Inexperienced
- Grace Wales Bonner for Wales Bonner
- Jonathan Anderson for JW Anderson and Loewe
- Kiko Kostadinov for Kiko Kostadinov
- Kim Jones for Dior Males
- Martine Rose for Martine Rose
British Womenswear Designer of the 12 months
- Erdem Moralıoğlu for Erdem
- Jonathan Anderson for JW Anderson and Loewe
- Maximilian Davis for Ferragamo
- Roksanda Ilinčić for Roksanda
- Simone Rocha for Simone Rocha
New Institution Menswear
- Aaron Esh for Aaron Esh
- Foday Dumbuya for Labrum London
- Nicholas Daley for Nicholas Daley
- Priya Ahluwalia for Ahluwalia
- Stefan Cooke and Jake Burt for Stefan Cooke
New Institution Womenswear
- Dilara Fındıkoğlu for Dilara Fındıkoğlu
- Emma Chopova and Laura Lowena for Chopova Lowena
- Jawara Alleyne for Jawara Alleyne
- Laura & Deanna Fanning for Kiko Kostadinov
- Marco Capaldo for 16Arlington
British Equipment Designer
- Anna Jewsbury for Completedworks
- Helen Kirkum for Helen Kirkum Studio
- Jack Cannon and Joe Gelb for Hatton Labs
- Rosh Mahtani for Alighieri
- Stephen Jones for Stephen Jones
The Vogue Awards is the first fundraiser of the BFC Basis, which goals to assist the longer term development and success of the British vogue trade by specializing in schooling, grant-giving and enterprise mentoring.
It counts Pandora and The Peninsula London as key sponsors, whereas Kojey Radical and Maya Jama will cohost the occasion on Monday.