Monday night’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award show was filled with some of the biggest names in the industry, from celebrities to editors to designers hopeful to take home the coveted prize of the evening. Held at Spring Studios, the 11th annual award show was hosted by Seth Meyers and Stella McCartney, the latter of which also served as the keynote speaker, the first woman to hold the position at the event. "The biggest thing is to be true to yourself in life, to be an individual and have a point of view, to try to lead and not to follow," she said to all the up and coming designers in the audience.
Others in attendance included a very pregnant Eva Chen, Alexa Chung, Joan Smalls, Xiao Wen, Tabitha Simmons, Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, Alessandra Ambrosio, Karlie Kloss, Ben Stiller, Jason Wu, Grace Coddington, Prabal Gurung, André Leon Talley and Serena Williams, just to name a few. (Yeah, this event is a pretty big deal.) Celebrities and models wore designs from close friends, like Kloss did with Jason Wu, or styled pieces from the evening’s nominees, as Quentin Jones did with Eva Fehren Jewelry.
The winner of the night was surprisingly not a ready-to-wear designer, but shoe guru Paul Andrew. For his prize he will receive business mentoring over the next year and $300,000 to invest in his company. He’s already been working for big names for over the last 15 years—including Narciso Rodriguez, Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan—so we're anxious to see what he'll do next. The runners up included Eva Fehren jeweler Eva Zuckerman and knitwear designer Ryan Roche, who were each given $100,000 for their prospective brands.
