630 Ashlynn Park Wins The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Congratulations are in order for Ashlynn Park! The designer behind New York-based label Ashlyn has won the 2025 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, announced at the event’s ceremony last night by none other than Alex Consani. The event, which honors American design talents, awarded Park with $300,000, while grants…
Last night, Michael Kors, Vera Wang, Tory Burch, Prabal Gurung, and a host of other American fashion leaders descended on the Crane Club in New York to celebrate the next generation of designers. The night was the pinnacle of the 2025 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, where this year’s winners were announced. “This experience has been so…
Every year, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists take part in a design challenge presented with support from Tommy Hilfiger. For 2025, the challenge took on a new and meaningful dimension, when the CFDA joined forces with Sinéad Burke and her organization Tilting the Lens, which works to make a more inclusive and equitable world for…
This year’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund introduced a powerful new focus: adaptive fashion. The concept was unveiled last night during the Fund’s annual challenge competition, where the ten 2025 finalists were each paired with muses from Tilting the Lens—the accessibility and inclusion consultancy founded by Sinéad Burke. The task? To work directly with their muse to…
Inside, Stephanie Suberville of Heirlome was talking to people through some of her signature pieces. In both Spanish and English, she explained how the fringed knitwear was created in partnership with artisans of the Madres y Artesanas Tex collective in Bolivia. It’s been a major few months for her young brand. With a well-attended February…
This is my first time applying. A few friends pushed me and said, ‘You need to do this,’ but knowing the challenges that it comes with, I was a little hesitant; the demanding nature of it. I remember seeing it on television once and thinking, ‘Wow, that is amazing’; seeing what they went through was…
Gabe Gordon, 26 and Timothy Gibbons, 28From Ridgefield, CT (Gordon) and Belfast, Ireland (Gibbons), now based in Brooklyn, NY How did you first get into fashion?Gabe Gordon: I was always a fan of Project Runway as a little kid, I would watch it with my mom. We used to have this dog and my mom…
The finalists for the 2025 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Fresh off celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Fashion Fund, the Council of Fashion Designers of America and Vogue announced early this morning the group of finalists taking part in this year’s competition. They are: Ashlyn’s Ashlynn Park; Aubero’s Julian Louie; Bach Mai; Bernard James; Don’t Let…