New York-based designer Ashlynn Park is the winner of the 2025 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund.
The designer, a veteran pattern-maker whose resume consists of stints at Yohji Yamamoto, Calvin Klein and Alexander Wang, is on a profitable streak, having picked up the CFDA’s rising designer of the yr award simply final week. She based her label Ashlyn, which focuses on modern, understated items with delicate gildings, in 2019.
Julian Louie, the designer of Aubero, and Stephanie Suberville of Heirlome have been the runners up. Park will obtain $300,000, whereas Louie and Suberville will obtain $100,000. All the designers may even be provided mentorships.
Model Alex Consani made the announcement at a dinner on Monday hosted by Isha Ambani, director of India’s Reliance Retail; designer Zac Posen; Anna Wintour, Condé Nast chief content material officer and Vogue world editorial director and newly appointed Vogue US head of editorial Chloe Malle at The Crane Club in New York.
The different finalists have been Bach Mai; Bernard James; Don’t Let Disco designer Ashley Moubayed; Gabe Gordon and Tim Gibbons of Gabe Gordon; Jamie Okuma; Meruert Tolegen and Peter Do.
“We just saw Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, the winners of our very first CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund back in 2004, triumph with their Loewe debut in Paris … I am just as excited and optimistic about how far this year’s finalists will go,” stated Wintour in a press release.
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