This past Friday, GQ announced the six finalists in the 2010 Best New Menswear Designers in America competition. The finalists included Burkman Bros, Richard Chai, Caulfield Preparatory, J. Crew, Billy Reid, and Unis. Anticipation builds as the winner will be announced on February 12th, 2009. Yet, there is a great deal of buzz surrounding these six finalists. None more than around Caulfield Preparatory, the menswear line designed by Vincent Flumiani. Caulfield Prep launched their first collection for the Fall/Winter 2009 season, which you can view here. Flumiani has a knack for constructing fashion-forward basics that are masculine man friendly. His Spring/Summer 2010 collection is fresh and has a mass appeal to men everywhere that want to casually dress like the GQ man, so to speak. Looking ahead, I believe its fair to say that Vincent Flumiani and the Caulfield Prep brand have a long, successful path ahead of them.
Although, GQ isn’t the only outlet creating excitement around designers and fashion. Mega e-tailer ideeli has launched the Fashion 2.0 Social Media Awards that couldn’t have come at a better time than on the cusp of Fashion Week. The goal of the Fashion 2.0 Social Media Awards is to gauge how fashion brands influenced style, dress, thought and point of purchase this past year. Everyone is encouraged to contribute to the voting process to come to a common consensus of the deserving brands that had a fantastic 2009 in the marriage of fashion, retail and social media. The polls are open until February 8th, 2009 at 11:59PM, vote for the Fashion 2.0 Social Media Awards here and vote for the Innovator Award here. And if you’re in the mood for some great deals on designer duds, use the ideeli invite code: lalanyc at www.ideeli.com.
i love billy reid. talk about americana fashion!