Coty Award - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Coty American Fashion Critics' Awards (awarded 1943-1984) were first announced in January 1942 by the cosmetics and perfume company Coty, Inc.

Coty, Inc.

Coty, Inc. is the world's largest fragrance company, founded in 1904. It is also a beauty products manufacturer whose main businesses are fragrances , followed by color cosmetics , toiletries and skin care...

to promote and celebrate American fashion, and encourage design during the Second World War. The first awards were presented in January 1943, with Norman Norell

Norman Norell

Norman Norell was an American fashion designer, known for his elegant suits and tailored silhouettes....

winning the award. The program was developed by the publicist and champion of American fashion, Eleanor Lambert

Eleanor Lambert

Eleanor Lambert Berkson -Background:Born in Crawfordsville Indiana. She attended the John Herron School of Art and the Chicago Art Institute to study Fashion. She started at an advertising agency in Manhattan New York, dealing mostly with artists and art galleries...

with the assistance of the Mayor of New York, Fiorello H. La Guardia. The awards were given solely to designers based in America, unlike the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award

Neiman Marcus Fashion Award

The Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion was a yearly award created in 1938 by Stanley Marcus. Unlike the Coty Award, it was not limited to American-based fashion designers...

s. Up until its discontinuation in 1985, the Coty Award was considered one of the most prestigious awards in the field of fashion. The womenswear awards are popularly known as Winnies; the menswear award which began in 1968 has no name. Repeat awards were the Return Award and the Hall of Fame award. Special Awards were also awarded to designers in specialist fields.

In 1985, Donald Flannery, the senior vice-president of Pfizer, Inc., Coty's parent company, announced that the Coty Awards would not be continued after that year. Through their promotion of American fashion design and designers, the awards had successfully brought America into the worldwide fashion scene. This had been the primary reason for the Coty Awards' creation, so it was decided to discontinue the awards as their work was complete.

1943-1949

1943

Winnie

Norman Norell

Norman Norell was an American fashion designer, known for his elegant suits and tailored silhouettes....

Special Awards

Lilly Daché

Lilly Daché was a French milliner and fashion designer.She was born in Bègles, Gironde, France, and began her fashion career there at the age of 15 as a milliner, apprenticed under Caroline Reboux and Suzanne Talbot. Although she is said to have emigrated to the United States in 1924, the 1930 U.S...

(millinery)

John Frederics (millinery)

Additional citations

Hattie Carnegie

Hattie Carnegie was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1960s. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary as Henrietta Kanengeiser....

(fashion designer & retailer)

Clare Potter

Clare Potter was a fashion designer who was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1903. In the 1930s she was one of the first American fashion designers to be promoted as an individual design talent. She has been credited as one of the inventors of American sportswear. Based in Manhattan, she...

(American sportswear)

Charles Cooper

Mainbocher

Mainbocher is a fashion label founded by the American couturier Main Rousseau Bocher , also known as Mainbocher. Established in 1929, the house of Mainbocher successfully operated in Paris and then in New York...

(American couture)

Claire McCardell

Claire McCardell was an American fashion designer in the arena of ready-to-wear clothing in the 20th century. From the 1930s to the 1950s, she was known for designing functional, affordable, and stylish women’s sportswear within the constraints of mass-production, and is today acknowledged as the...

(American sportswear)

Valentina

Valentina (fashion designer)

Valentina Nicholaevna Sanina Schlee , known professionally simply as Valentina, was a Russian émigrée fashion designer and theatrical costume designer active from 1928 to the late 1950s....

(American couture)

1944

Winnie

Claire McCardell

Special Awards

Phelps Associates (leather accessories)

Sally Victor (millinery)

1945

Winnies

Gilbert Adrian

Tina Leser

Emily Wilkens

1946

Winnies

Omar Kiam (of Ben Reig)

Vincent Monte-Sano

Clare Potter

1947

Winnies

Jacob Horwitz

Mark Mooring

Nettie Rosenstein

Nettie Rosenstein was an acclaimed Jewish-American fashion designer, based in New York between c.1913 and 1975. She was particularly renowned for her little black dresses and costume jewellery.-Early life:...

Adele Simpson

Adele Simpson was a child performer in vaudeville who danced in productions with Milton Berle and other entertainers. She became a fashion designerwhose influence continued for nearly five decades.-Design career:...

1948

Winnie

Hattie Carnegie

Hattie Carnegie was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1960s. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary as Henrietta Kanengeiser....

Special Awards

Joseph de Leo (furs)

Esther Dorothy (furs)

Maximilian (furs)

1949

Winnie

Pauline Trigère

Pauline Trigère was a French-born American fashion designer, known for her crisp, tailored cuts and innovative ideas.The daughter of a tailor, Trigère was able to operate a sewing machine by age 10 and often assisted her dressmaker mother. Shortly after leaving school, Pauline was employed as a...

Special Awards

David Evins (shoes)

Toni Owen (American sportswear)

1950-1959

1950

Winnies

Charles James

Charles James (designer)

Charles James was a fashion designer known as America's first couturier. He is considered a master of cutting and is known for his highly structured aesthetic.-Early life:...

Bonnie Cashin

Bonnie Cashin is considered one of the most significant pioneers of designer ready-to-wear, more commonly called sportswear, in America. Among the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful designers of the 20th century, Cashin was revered for her intellectual, artistic, and...

Special Awards

Mabel & Charles Julianelli (shoes)

Nancy Melcher (lingerie)

1951

Winnie

Jane Derby

Jane Derby was a top-of-the-line ready-to-wear American fashion designer from the 1930s to 1965....

Return Award

Norman Norell

Norman Norell was an American fashion designer, known for his elegant suits and tailored silhouettes....

Pauline Trigère

Special Awards

Anne Fogarty (prettiest dresses)

Vera Maxwell

Vera Huppe Maxwell was a legendary sportswear and fashion designer until her retirement in 1985.She was the first American designer to make clothes with Ultrasuede material...

(American sportswear)

Sylvia Pedlar (lingerie)

1952

Winnies

Ben Zuckerman

Ben Sommers

Special Awards

Karen Stark at Harvey Berin (concept of dressing)

Sydney Wragge (concept of dressing)

1953

Winnie

Tom Brigance

Special Awards

Helen Lee

Helen Lee was an American fashion designer of children's clothes.She was born in Knoxville and studied at New York at the Art Students League and at the Traphagen School of Art....

(children's clothing)

John Moore at Matty Talmack (evening wear)

1954

Winnie

James Galanos

James Galanos is an American fashion designer, widely considered to be one the world's foremost 20th century couturiers.-Early life:James Galanos was born September 20, 1924 in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only son of Greek-born parents...

Special Awards

Charles James

Charles James (designer)

Charles James was a fashion designer known as America's first couturier. He is considered a master of cutting and is known for his highly structured aesthetic.-Early life:...

(innovative cutting

Cut (clothing)

Cut in clothing, sewing and tailoring, is the style or shape of a garment as opposed to its fabric or trimmings.The cut of a coat refers to the way the garment hangs on the body based on the shape of the fabric pieces used to construct it, the position of the fabric's grain line, and so on....

)

1955

Winnies

Anne Klein

Anne Klein was an American fashion designer who founded her own women's sportswear and apparel label.-Biography:Anne Klein was born as Hannah Golofski in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York on August 3, 1923...

Jeanne Campbell

Herbert Kasper

Herbert Kasper is an American fashion designer who is known as Kasper. He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at the Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the...

Special Award

Adolfo (millinery)

1956

Winnies

Luis Estevez

Sally Victor

Return Award

James Galanos

Hall of Fame Award

Norman Norell

Norman Norell was an American fashion designer, known for his elegant suits and tailored silhouettes....

Special Award

Gertrude & Robert Goldworm (knitwear)

1957

Winnies

Leslie Morris

Sydney Wragge

Special Award

Emeric Partos (furs)

1958

Winnie

Arnold Scaasi

Return Award

Ben Zuckerman

Hall of Fame Award

Claire McCardell

(posthumous)

Special Awards

Donald Brooks

Donald Brooks was an American fashion designer. Though he was very successful, if not as famous as some of his contemporaries, his passion was his work for the stage and film, designing over 3500 costumes...

(influence on evening clothes)

Jean Schlumberger

Jean Schlumberger (jewelry designer)

Jean Michel Schlumberger was a French jewelry designer especially well-known for his work at Tiffany & Co.-Early life:...

(jewellery)

1959

Hall of Fame Awards

James Galanos

Pauline Trigère

1960-1969

1960

Winnies

Ferdinando Sarmi

Jacques Tiffeau

Special Awards

Rudi Gernreich

Rudi Gernreich was a Austrian-born American fashion designer and gay activist.-Biography:Born in Vienna, Gernreich fled Austria at age 16 due to Nazism, and later migrated to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, California...

(innovative body clothes)

Sol Klein at Nettie Rosenstein (costume jewellery)

Roxane of Samuel Winston (beaded evening wear)

1961

Winnies

Bill Blass

William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns...

Gustave Tassell

Gustave Tassell was an American fashion designer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Tassell studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Moving to New York City, he worked in the advertising and display department for Hattie Carnegie, who was well known in the fashion design world...

Hall of Fame Award

Ben Zuckerman

Special Awards

Bonnie Cashin

(deep-country clothes)

Kenneth (leadership in hair-styling)

1962

Winnie

Donald Brooks

Special Award

Halston

Roy Halston Frowick, also known as Halston was a clothing designer of the 1970s. His long dresses or copies of his style were popular fashion wear in mid-1970s discotheques.-Early life and career:...

(millinery)

1963

Winnie

Rudi Gernreich

Return Award

Bill Blass

William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns...

Special Awards

Arthur and Theodora Edelman (leather design)

Betty Yokova of Neustadter Furs Inc.

1964

Winnie

Geoffrey Beene

Geoffrey Beene was an American fashion designer.Beene was born in Haynesville, Louisiana. He studied medicine at Tulane University, but dropped out in 1946, after three years. He moved to New York in 1947 to attend the Traphagen School of Fashion...

Return Award

Jacques Tiffeau

Special Award

David Webb (jewellery design)

Return Special Award

Sylvia Pedlar

1965

Special Awards

Tzaims Luksus

-Biography:Tzaims Luksus was born in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. on January 1, 1932 son of John James [Prince Ivan Yusefovitch Yusupov-Luksiev] and Beulah Maude Wingfield-Driver-Luksus. He is regarded by those who know him as a Renaissance Man...

(fabric design)

Pablo of Elizabeth Arden (leadership in make-up)

Anna Potov of Maximilian (furs)

Gertrude Seperack (foundation garments)

Sylvia De Gay (designers of young fashion)

Edie Gladstone (designers of young fashion)

Stan Herman (designers of young fashion)

Deanna Littell (designers of young fashion)

Leo Narducci (designers of young fashion)

Don Simonelli (designers of young fashion)

Bill Smith (designers of young fashion)

1966

Winnie

Dominic at Matty Talmack

Return Awards

Rudi Gernreich

Geoffrey Beene

Special Award

Kenneth Jay Lane

Kenneth Jay Lane is an American costume jewelry designer.- Biography :Born in Detroit, Michigan he is an alumnus of Detroit Central High School, the University of Michigan and the Rhode Island School of Design....

(costume jewellery)

1967

Winnie

Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta is one of the world's leading fashion designers. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1973.-Career:...

Return Award

Donald Brooks

Hall of Fame Award

Rudi Gernreich

Special Award

Herbert

Herbert Levine

Herbert Levine was an American fashion executive active from the 1940s through the 1970s. Together with his fashion designer wife, Beth Levine, he led the fashion accessory Herbert Levine label bearing his name until 1975.- Life :...

& Beth Levine

Beth Levine

Beth Levine was an American fashion designer most known for her designs from the 1940s through the 1970s....

(shoes)

1968

Winnies

George Halley

George Halley was a Scottish professional association football player who played as a wing half.-References:...

Luba Marks

Return Awards

Bonnie Cashin

Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta is one of the world's leading fashion designers. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1973.-Career:...

Special Award

Giorgio di Sant'Angelo(fantasy accessories and ethnic fashions)

1969

Winnies

Stan Herman

Victor Joris

Return Award

Anne Klein

Special Awards

Adolfo (millinery)

Halston

Roy Halston Frowick, also known as Halston was a clothing designer of the 1970s. His long dresses or copies of his style were popular fashion wear in mid-1970s discotheques.-Early life and career:...

(millinery)

Julian Tomchin (fabric designs)

1970-1979

1970

Winnies

Giorgio di Sant' Angelo

Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, 1933-1989 , was an Italian-born American fashion designer. He was known for creating ethnic-inspired looks early in his career, for which he won the prestigious American Coty Fashion Critic's award in 1970...

Chester Weinberg

Return Award

Herbert Kasper

Hall of Fame Award

Bill Blass

William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns...

Special Awards

Will & Eileen Richardson of Up Tied (Tie-dyed fabrics)

Steven Brody of Cadoro (costume jewellery)

Alexis Kirk

Alexis Kirk is an American business owner and designer of costume jewelry, fine jewelry, and fashion accessories. He is the owner of a retail organization called Dream Diamonds Online. His work is sold in several countries at retail and at auction. He received a Coty American Fashion Critics' Award...

(costume jewellery)

Cliff Nicholson (costume jewellery)

Marty Ruza (costume jewellery)

Bill Smith (costume jewellery)

Daniel Stoenescu (costume jewellery)

Menswear Award

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer and business executive; best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.-Early life:...

1971

Winnies

Halston

Roy Halston Frowick, also known as Halston was a clothing designer of the 1970s. His long dresses or copies of his style were popular fashion wear in mid-1970s discotheques.-Early life and career:...

Betsey Johnson at Alley Cat

Betsey Johnson

Betsey Johnson is an American fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. Many of her designs are considered "over the top" and embellished...

Hall of Fame Award

Anne Klein

Hall of Fame Citation

Bill Blass

William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns...

Special Awards

John Kloss of Cira (lingerie)

Nancy Knox (men's shoes)

Levi Strauss & Co (worldwide fashion influence)

Elsa Peretti

-Biography:She was born in Florence, Italy, in 1940, the daughter of a well-to-do Roman family. Educated at Volbicela School in Rome, with a diploma in interior design. In early jobs she was a French teacher, a ski instructor and a model...

(jewellery)

Menswear Award

Larry Kane of Raffles Wear

1972

Winnie

John Anthony

Return Award

Halston

Roy Halston Frowick, also known as Halston was a clothing designer of the 1970s. His long dresses or copies of his style were popular fashion wear in mid-1970s discotheques.-Early life and career:...

Hall of Fame Award

Bonnie Cashin

Special Award

Dorothy Weatherford of Mountain Artisans (patchwork and quality)

Special Menswear Awards

Robert Margolis of A. Smile Inc. (excitement in menswear)

Alan Rosanes of Gordon Gregory Ltd. (excitement in menswear)

Alexander Shields

Alexander Shields was a Scottish nonconformist minister, activist, and author.-Works:* A Hind let looſe, or An Hiſtorical Repreſentation of the Testimonies, of the Church of Scotland, for the Intereſt of Chriſt, vvith the true State thereof in all its Periods * Life and Death of Mr...

(excitement in menswear)

Pinky Wolman & Dianne Beaudry of Flo Toronto (excitement in menswear)

1973

Winnies

Stephen Burrows

Calvin Klein

Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry....

Hall of Fame Award

Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta is one of the world's leading fashion designers. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1973.-Career:...

Special Awards

Clovis Ruffin (original young fashion)

Joe Famolare (shoes)

Don Kline (hats)

Judith Leiber

Judith Leiber is a designer of luxury handbags.Peto was the first woman to join the handbag-makers guild in Budapest. A Jew, she escaped the Holocaust of World War II to the safety of the Swiss house when her father was able to obtain a Swiss schutzpass, a document that gave the bearer safe passage...

(handbags)

Herbert

Herbert Levine

& Beth Levine

Beth Levine

Beth Levine was an American fashion designer most known for her designs from the 1940s through the 1970s....

(shoes)

Michael Moraux of Dubaux (jewellery)

Celia Sebiri (jewellery)

1974

Winnie

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer and business executive; best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.-Early life:...

Return Award

Calvin Klein

Hall of Fame Awards

Geoffrey Beene

Halston

Roy Halston Frowick, also known as Halston was a clothing designer of the 1970s. His long dresses or copies of his style were popular fashion wear in mid-1970s discotheques.-Early life and career:...

Special Awards

Stephen Burrows (lingerie)

Stan Herman (lingerie)

John Kloss (lingerie)

Fernando Sánchez

Fernando Sanchez

Fernando Sánchez was a Spanish fashion designer. He was known for his provocative lingerie collections, which, though designed for elegant boudoirs, were often worn in public. Sanchez was awarded several Coty fashion awards, as well as a Council of Fashion Designers of America Award in...

(lingerie)

Bill Tice (lingerie)

Menswear Award

Bill Kaiserman

Bill Kaiserman is a four-time Coty Award-winning designer .Kaiserman established a design studio in the Italian design community in Milan, and developed a designer business in Europe and Asia....

of Rafael

Menswear Return Award

Piero Dimitri

Special Menswear Awards

Sal Cesarani (menswear)

John Weitz (menswear)

Aido Cipullo (male jewellery)

1975

Winnies

Carol Horn

Hall of Fame Award

Calvin Klein

Hall of Fame Citation

Geoffrey Beene

Hall of Fame Award (menswear)

Piero Dimitri

Special Awards

Bill Blass

William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns...

for Revillon America

Revillon Freres

Révillon Frères was a French fur and luxury goods company, founded in 1723.At the end of the 19th century, Revillon had stores in Paris, London, New York, and Montreal. -Fur trading operation:...

(fur design)

Fernando Sanchez

for Revillon America

Revillon Freres

Révillon Frères was a French fur and luxury goods company, founded in 1723.At the end of the 19th century, Revillon had stores in Paris, London, New York, and Montreal. -Fur trading operation:...

(fur design)

Calvin Klein

for Alixandre (fur design)

Viola Sylbert for Alixandre (fur design)

Monika Tilley for Elon

Elon

In the Bible, Elon was a Judge of Israel.He followed Ibzan and was succeeded by Abdon. It is said that he was from the Tribe of Zebulun, led Israel for ten years, and was buried in Ajalon in Zebulon .- See also :*Biblical judges*Book of Judges...

(swimwear)

Menswear Award

Chuck Howard & Peter Wrigley at Anne Klein Studio

Anne Klein

Menswear Return Award

Bill Kaiserman

Bill Kaiserman is a four-time Coty Award-winning designer .Kaiserman established a design studio in the Italian design community in Milan, and developed a designer business in Europe and Asia....

of Rafael

Special Menswear Award

Nancy Knox (leather menswear)

1976

Winnie

Mary McFadden

Mary Josephine McFadden is an American fashion designer and writer.-Family:McFadden is the only daughter of Alexander Bloomfield McFadden, a cotton broker, and her mother was the former Mary Josephine Cutting, a socialite and concert pianist. Her father died in 1948, when he was killed in an...

Return Awards

John Anthony

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer and business executive; best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.-Early life:...

Hall of Fame Award

Herbert Kasper

Hall of Fame Award (menswear)

Bill Kaiserman

Bill Kaiserman is a four-time Coty Award-winning designer .Kaiserman established a design studio in the Italian design community in Milan, and developed a designer business in Europe and Asia....

Special Awards

American Sporting Gear (Sportswear (activewear)

Sportswear

Sportswear or activewear is clothing, including footwear, worn for sport or physical exercise. Sport-specific clothing is worn for most sports and physical exercise, for practical, comfort or safety reasons....

)

Barbara Dulien (womenswear)

Menswear Award

Sal Cesarani

Special Menswear Awards

Vicky Davis (mens' neckwear

Neckwear

Neckwear refers to various styles of clothing worn around the neck. They are worn for fashion reasons or for protection against weather influences, the latter for comfort of health. Common neckwear today include bow ties, neckties , scarves, feather boas and shawls. Ruffs and bands are historically....

)

Lowell Judson (men's loungewear)

Ronald Kolodzie (men's loungewear)

Robert Schafter (men's loungewear)

1977

Winnies

Stephen Burrows

Donna Karan

Donna Karan is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.-Early life:...

& Louis Dell'Olio for Anne Klein

Anne Klein

Hall of Fame Award

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer and business executive; best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.-Early life:...

Hall of Fame Citation

Geoffrey Beene

(Contribution to American Fashion)

Special Awards

Ted Muehling (jewellery)

Fernando Sanchez

(lingerie)

Menswear Award

Alexander Julian

Alexander Julian is an American clothing designer. He is most notable for his Colours clothing brand.-Early life:Born to Mary Brady and Maurice S. Julian, Julian was raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a childhood playmate of James Taylor. His father, Maurice S. Julian , was a clothier who...

1978

Winnies

Bill Atkinson

Charles Suppon

Return Award

Mary McFadden

Special Awards

Joan & David Helpern (shoes and boots)

AMF Head Sportswear Co. (outstanding contribution to activewear)

Danskin Inc. (exercise and sports clothing)

Menswear Award

Robert Stock

Menswear Hall of Fame Citation

Bill Kaiserman

Bill Kaiserman is a four-time Coty Award-winning designer .Kaiserman established a design studio in the Italian design community in Milan, and developed a designer business in Europe and Asia....

1979

Winnie

Perry Ellis

Perry Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded a sportswear house in the mid-1970s.-The rise of Perry Ellis:...

Hall of Fame Award

Mary McFadden

Hall of Fame Citations

for contributions to international status of American fashion

Geoffrey Beene

Halston

Roy Halston Frowick, also known as Halston was a clothing designer of the 1970s. His long dresses or copies of his style were popular fashion wear in mid-1970s discotheques.-Early life and career:...

Calvin Klein

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer and business executive; best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.-Early life:...

Special Awards

Barry Kieselstein-Cord (jewellery)

Gil Truedsson (shoes)

Joan Vass (knitwear)

Menswear Award

Lee Wright

Menswear Return Award

Alexander Julian

Special Menswear Award

Conrad Bell (men's furs)

1980-1984

1980

Winnie

Michaele Vollbracht

Special Awards

Jeffrey Aronoff (handwoven fabrics)

Stewart Richer for Reminiscence (retailers)

Menswear Award

Jhane Barnes

Menswear Special Award

Ron Chereskin

1981

After Beene, Klein and Lauren all rejected their awards, it was decided that all nominees would receive awards.

Winnies

Calvin Klein

Perry Ellis

Perry Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded a sportswear house in the mid-1970s.-The rise of Perry Ellis:...

Geoffrey Beene

Special Awards

Barry Kieselstein-Cord (jewellery)

Alex Mate & Lee Brooks (jewellery)

Fernando Sánchez

Fernando Sanchez

Fabrice Simon

Fabrice Simon was an award-winning artist and fashion designer, best known for his hand-made beaded dresses....

(beaded evening wear)

Hot Sox (hosiery)

Robert Lee Morris

Robert Lee Morris is a jewelry designer and sculptor who attributes much of his inspiration to forms he admires in nature. His designs have been made in gold, silver and bronze. He is an acknowledged leader of the art jewelry movement...

(jewellery)

Laura Pearson at Tijuca (knitwear)

Menswear Award

Jhane Barnes

Alexander Julian

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer and business executive; best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.-Early life:...

Menswear Special Awards

Andrew Fezza

Nancy Knox

Robert Lighton

1982

Winnie

Adri

Return Awards

Norma Kamali

Norma Kamali is a New York-based fashion designer born in 1945. She is best known for the "sleeping bag" coat, "parachute pants" made from silk parachutes, and versatile multi-use pieces. She designed the red one-piece bathing suit worn by Farah Fawcett in the iconic 1976 Charlie's Angels poster....

Donna Karan

Donna Karan is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.-Early life:...

& Louis Dell'Olio (of Anne Klein

Anne Klein

)

Special Awards

Susan Bennis

Susan Bennis, co-owner and designer of SUSANBENNISWARRENEDWARDS .-Career:In 1972, Susan Bennis and Warren Edwards, founders of SUSANBENNISWARRENEDWARDS had the opportunity to purchase a British-owned shoe boutique in New York City...

& Warren Edwards

Warren Edwards

Warren Edwards is a shoe designer. He was born in London and moved to New York City in his early 20s. Along with Susan Bennis, he designed shoes under the name Susan Bennis Warren Edwards. Bennis later retired from shoe designing, but Edwards continues to produce high-end footwear. In 1991,...

(shoes)

Jay Lord Hatters

Patricia Underwood (millinery)

Ted Muehling (jewellery)

Jackson Allen & Tim Veness

Special Award Citation

Geoffrey Beene

(fifth Coty Award citation)

Menswear Award

Jeff Banks

Jeff Banks CBE is a Welsh designer of men's and women's clothing, jewellery, and home furnishings. Born in Ebbw Vale, Wales, Banks co-founded the fashion chain Warehouse in the late 1970s...

Menswear Return Award

Sal Cesarani

Menswear Special Award

Robert Comstock

1983

Winnie

Willi Smith

Willi Donnell Smith was one of the most successful young African-American fashion designers in fashion history. At the time of his death, his company Williwear Ltd...

Hall of Fame Award

Norma Kamali

Special Award Citations

Perry Ellis

Perry Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded a sportswear house in the mid-1970s.-The rise of Perry Ellis:...

(womenswear)

Bill Blass

William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns...

Alexander Julian

Carlos Falchi

Carlos Falchi is a Brazilian-born handbag and accessories designer known for his patchwork designs. He has won awards for accessory design, and his accessories have appeared in several TV shows and movies...

(handbags)

Susan Horton

Selma, John & Barbara Weiser of Charivari

Charivari

Charivari is the term for a French folk custom in which the community gave a noisy, discordant mock serenade, also pounding on pots and pans, at the home of newlyweds. The loud, public ritual evolved to a form of social coercion, for instance, to force an as-yet-unmarried couple to wed...

(retail store)

Menswear Award

Alan Flusser

Alan J. Flusser is an American author and designer of men's clothing. In 1979 he founded Alan Flusser Designs. He won the 1983 Coty Award as Top Menswear Designer, and received the Cutty Sark Award in 1987...

Menswear Return Award

Perry Ellis

Perry Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded a sportswear house in the mid-1970s.-The rise of Perry Ellis:...

1984

Winnie

Adrienne Vittadini

Adrienne Vittadini is a renowned American fashion designer. When she was 12, her family fled Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian revolution. In 1979, she started what would become a multi-million dollar fashion business as a hobby. The brand name Adrienne Vittadini is synonymous with designs that...

Hall of Fame Award

Donna Karan

Donna Karan is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.-Early life:...

& Louis Dell'Olio (of Anne Klein

Anne Klein

)

Special Awards

Milena Canonero

Milena Canonero is an Italian costume designer, working both for films and stage productions. She has won three Academy Awards for Best Costume design, and been nominated for it eight times.-Career:...

Robin Kahn (jewellery)

Barry Kieselstein-Cord (jewellery)

Michelle & Janis Savitt (jewellery)

Menswear

Andrew Fezza

Hall of Fame Award (Menswear)

Perry Ellis

Perry Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded a sportswear house in the mid-1970s.-The rise of Perry Ellis:...

Menswear Return Award

Jhane Barnes

External links

Coty Homepage
"Coty marks 100 years, taking time to smell success" - Associated Press article

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