The Couture Council of The Museum at FIT will honor Simon Porte Jacquemus, founder and designer on the trend home Jacquemus with its 2024 Couture Council Award for Artistry of Trend.
The annual luncheon takes place on Sept. 4 on the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Heart in New York. The occasion heralds the arrival of New York Trend Week, with proceeds benefiting The Museum at FIT, the one museum in New York devoted completely to the artwork of trend.
Couture Council board of director members Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz, founding editor in chief of Vogue Arabia and founding father of D’NA, and Sarah Wetenhall, president and proprietor of The Colony Palm Seaside, will function co-chairs. For the fifth consecutive yr, Nordstrom is the presenting sponsor.
Jacquemus was born within the South of France and is now primarily based in Paris. He established his eponymous model in 2009 on the age of 19 with no formal coaching, dedicating the model to his late mom. His ready-to-wear and equipment are impressed by his ardour for artwork and the ornamental arts, and his collections for ladies and men reference French tradition and common gestures of magnificence from advantageous artwork, images, portray and sculpture. The designer is understood for his provocative method to trend exhibits and theatrical runway productions which have taken place in sudden areas resembling a Parisian swimming pool or contained in the Musee Picasso, winding via a lavender discipline in Provence or a wheat discipline exterior of Paris.
The designer, who’s identified for his sensual Mediterranean aesthetic drenched in vibrant shade, informed WWD in January, “We’re pop luxurious.” In actual fact, his spring 2024 present, held on the Fondation Maeght, an artwork basis within the hilltop village of Saint-Paul-de-Vence within the South of France, stirred collectively a lot of his signature elements: a cinematic location and a number of celeb visitors, led by Julia Roberts.
Jacquemus has additionally ignited a world craze for micro luggage together with his bestselling Chiquito purse, together with a miniature model that matches into the palm of 1 hand.
Gigi Hadid walks the runway through the “Les Sculptures” Jacquemus’ trend present at Fondation Maeght on Jan. 29 in Saint-Paul-De-Vence, France. (Photograph by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis by way of Getty Photos)
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Jacquemus was the recipient of the 2014 LVMH Prize finalist, the 2015 LVMH Particular Jury Prize, 2024 Neiman Marcus Trend Innovation Award, and in March, was embellished as Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Letres), the best French ministerial award for cultural achievement, and at 34 years outdated, made him the youngest clothier to ever obtain this honor.
“I’m actually blissful to obtain the 2024 Couture Council Award for Artistry of Trend supported by Nordstrom, it’s lovely recognition for the model and my workforce,” Jacquemus stated. “As an unbiased designer, I used to be all the time eager on being modern and artistic within the design of my collections and in addition in my communication. It’s all the time about speaking and creating experiences with our group in distinctive method. I warmly thank the Couture Council of the Museum of FIT and Nordstrom for this nice assist and this award.”
Joyce F. Brown, president of FIT, stated, “A daring inventive pressure within the business who began his model on the age of 20, Simone Porte Jacquemus can be a task mannequin for our college students who look as much as him as each an entrepreneur and a designer. Following the Couture Council luncheon, we stay up for welcoming him to the FIT campus, the place he can focus on his extraordinary profession with our college students.”
Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT, stated, “The Museum at FIT is delighted to honor Simon Porte Jacquemus, the visionary younger designer whose fashions are as sunny and delightful as his native area within the South of France. His love of artwork and pure magnificence come via in all his work.”
Gigi Ganatra Duff, vp of PR and company affairs at Nordstrom, and a member of the FIT Basis Board of Trustees, added, “Nordstrom is proud to assist the Couture Council Luncheon benefiting The Museum at FIT for the fifth consecutive yr. It’s all the time an honor to have a good time the fusion of innovation and artistry inside the trend business at this esteemed occasion, which kicks off New York Trend Week. This yr we’re notably excited to acknowledge the visionary expertise of designer Simon Porte Jacquemus, whose work embodies the daring spirit and artistic excellence that The Museum at FIT and the Couture Council so passionately champion.”
Earlier recipients of the Couture Council Award for Artistry of Trend are Gabriela Hearst, Maria Grazia Chiuri of Dior, Wes Gordon of Carolina Herrera, Christian Louboutin, Narciso Rodriguez, Thom Browne, Albert Kriemler of Akris, Manolo Blahnik, Carolina Herrera, FIT alumnus Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, Valentino, Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel, Dries Van Noten, Isabel Toledo, Alber Elbaz and FIT graduate Ralph Rucci. In 2008, Giorgio Armani acquired a particular award for World Trend Management.