Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, who won the inaugural CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2004, hosted a cocktail at Proenza Schouler’s Greene Street boutique to unveil the 2016 CVFF finalists: Adam Selman (New York); Beckett Fogg and Piotrek Panszczyk of Area (New York); Laura Vassar and Kristopher Brock of Brock Collection (New York); Chloe Gosselin (Las Vegas); Ji Oh (New York); Stirling Barrett of Krewe du Optic (New Orleans); Morgan Curtis of Morgan Lane (New York); Maryam and Marjan Malakpour of Newbark (Los Angeles); Laurence Chandler and Joshua Cooper of Rochambeau (New York), and Chris Stamp of Stampd (Los Angeles).
Over the course of the next few weeks, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Selection Committee will meet with each finalist to review their current collections, conduct in-depth interviews and visit their design studios.
The finalists will also participate in a special design challenge underwritten by Intel, and, in October, they will travel to Los Angeles to present several looks at a fashion show at the Chateau Marmont underwritten by kate spade new york.
