The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners are announced

Vogue and the CFDA held the culminating event of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund awards last night. After a four month long design competition between ten young fashion designers, Vogue and the CFDA announced the winner of the competition at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to an audience of fashion industry figures including Eva Chen, Kenneth Cole, Christopher Bevans, Zac Posen and Diane Von Furstenberg.

The brand Pyer Moss was awarded this year’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, which comes with 400 thousand dollars in prize money. Pyer Moss is a five-year-old New York-based ready-to-wear brand founded by Kerby Jean-Raymond with the mission to “use its voice and platform to challenge social narratives and evoke dialogue.”

Pyer Moss has already spent quite a bit of time in the spotlight, due to celebrity interest in the label. Tracee Ellis Ross wore a design by the brand on the red carpet at the American Music Awards last month.

The runners-up to Pyer Moss were Bode and Jonathan Cohen. Each was awarded 150 thousand dollars.

The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund has been in place since 2003 to help fund emerging designers so they can establish themselves in the American fashion industry. Past winners have included Alexander Wang, Joseph Altuzarra, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez.

“At a time when our world faces so many challenges, I’m impressed by the winners,” Anna Wintour announced. “Their work highlights a high degree of creativity and a deep-rooted commitment to the notion of community. They’re not only a credit to the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund as it celebrates its 15th anniversary, but also to the optimism and inclusivity of the very best American fashion.”