Fab Flash: CFDA to Honour Alexander McQueen

Lee Alexander McQueen's death earlier this year is still sending ripples of sadness through the fashion world. Yesterday would have been his 41st birthday (check out a fab round up of his Spring pieces here) and the Council Of Fashion Designers Of America used the occasion to announce another tribute.

The British designer's final collection was shown at Paris Fashion Week earlier this month and his will now be awarded with a CFDA's special board of directors honour. It will be presented at the industry's annual gala in New York in June.

More nominees for the awards were announced with Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs and Alexander Wang battling it out for the womenswear gong, whilst Michael Kors will get the lifetime achievement award. Diane von Furstenberg was also voted in for a third term as president of the organisation. British Designer Christopher Bailey will be presented with the international award. For a full list of nominees, just read more.

WOMENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR

Marc Jacobs
Alexander Wang
Donna Karan

MENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR

Tom Ford
Michael Bastian
Rag & Bone's Marcus Wainwright and David Neville

ACCESSORY DESIGNER OF THE YEAR

Marc Jacobs
Alexis Bittar
Proenza Schouler's Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez

SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR WOMENSWEAR

Prabal Gurung
Joseph Altuzarra
Jason Wu

SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR MENSWEAR

Patrik Ervell
Simon Spurr
Richard Chai

SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR ACCESSORY DESIGN

Alexander Wang
Fenton/Fallon's Dana Lorenz
Eddie Borgo

INTERNATIONAL AWARD

Christopher Bailey

GEOFFREY BEENE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Michael Kors

ELEANOR LAMBERT AWARD

Tonne Goodman

EUGENIA SHEPPARD AWARD

Kim Hastreiter

CFDA BOARD OF DIRECTOR'S SPECIAL TRIBUTE AWARD

Alexander McQueen

FASHION ICON AWARD

Iman