New York-based Pyer Moss as led by Kerby Jean-Raymond was announced last night (November 5, 2018) as the winner of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. The award ceremony took place at the Brooklyn Navy Yard where Jean-Raymond accepted the award from actress Emily Blunt. As the award winner, Moss will take home a $400,000 prize.
Pyer Moss can add the accolade to the best collaborative shoe award it received last week from Footwear News for its efforts with Reeobk.
Menswear label Bode designed by Emily Adams Bode and Jonathan Cohen took runner up prizes of $150,000 each.
Additional nominees for this year’s award included Batsheva, Christian Cowan, Hunting Season, Luar, Matthew Adams Dolan, Rebecca de Ravenel and Scosha.
Winners were selected by a panel including Anna Wintour, Joseph Altuzarra, Instagram’s Eva Chen, Nordstrom’s Jeffrey Kalinsky, CFDA’s executive Steven Kolb, Saks Fifth Avenue’s Roopal Patel, Theory’s Andrew Rosen, Diane von Furstenberg, and Vogue’s Mark Holgate and Nicole Phelps.
Check out some images from the event below.
