The 2015 CFDA Awards Red Carpet

January Jones

Shayne Oliver, Binx Walton

Thom Browne

Julia Nobis, Jason Wu

Nina Garcia

Stacey Bendet

Marc Jacobs

Zachary Quinto

Diane Von Furstenberg

Alek Wek

Chrissy Teigen

Rachel Zoe

Karlie Kloss

Coco Rocha

Lulu Johnson, Betsey Johnson

Anna Wintour, Bee Shaffer

Janelle Monae

Amanda Seyfried

Hamish Bowles, Victoria Beckham

Ashely Olsen, Aymeline Valade, Mary-Kate Olsen

Kim Kardashian & Kanye West

Pharrell Williams, Helen Lasichanh

Taraji P. Henson

Joan Smalls

From the Oscars to the Met Gala, while I'd love to attend every award show, event and banquet, the CFDA Awards would probably leave me the most star-struck. It's the one time a year, even more than the Met Gala, that the biggest designers, legends and newbies alike, come together to to celebrate and honor the year's best. The Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards were last night at Lincoln Center in NYC. Congratulations to all the winners. See list below:

Womenswear Designer of the Year: The Row

Menswear Designer of the Year Award: Tom Ford

Accessory Designer of the Year Award: Tabitha Simmons

Swarovski Award for Womenswear: Rosie Assoulin

Swarovski Award for Menswear: Hood by Air

Swarovski Award for Accessory Design: Mansur Gavriel

The Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award: Betsey Johnson  

The Media Award: Instagram

The Founder's Award: Millard “Mickey” Drexler

The Fashion Icon Award: Pharrell Williams 

The International Award: Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli of Valentino

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And the Grammy goes to Pharrell's Hat!

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Pharrell Williams killed it last night at the Grammys. But it wasn't just for his amazing talents... Nope... you could say that his hat stole the show! The over-sized hat set in motion a huge wave of humor and ignorance that crashed down on social media. It's amusing to me that these assholes who know shit about fashion are the first ones to spit out opinions. So please, STFU! Pharrell Williams was totally on trend. He looked amazing in his Vivienne Westwood hat! The guy knows his fashion as he knows music. 

ALSO, you've got to watch the video above. It celebrates the CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year 2013 nominees and features male models singing Get Lucky.

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An Electrifying Project Runway All Stars

The

Project Runway All Stars

lit up the runway, literally, in last week's exciting episode. The techno-chic challenge was All Star-worthy. The designers bypassed Mood and headed directly to a specialty lighting store for their supplies which consisted of LED lights and neon tape. THEN they headed over to Mood to look for fabrics that would work well under black light. Rapper/Singer

Pharrell Williams

was the guest judge for the evening. The winning design, which was clearly

his

choice regardless of the judges (professional) opinion, will be worn by one of Pharrell's artists.

Mondo

was safe. I know he could have done much better than this design even though the overall styling worked - obviously, one of his strengths. He always thinks of the entire look as any good designer should. I've been a Team Mondo member from his original season on PR and I continue to be... I'm eager to see what he brings to the next few episodes.

Ninja couture by

Michael Costello

. He was in the bottom two for this one but had enough fighting moves to stay in the competition. I liked Michael's look. It reminded me of

Alexander McQueen's

2005 chess board collection. The problem with Michael was that he was all over the place and could not decide on a design. His execution, specifically with the neon tape application, was slightly sloppy.

Maybe not so slightly!

I'll give him props for not draping.

Pharrell, I'm trying to respect your choice, after all,

you

know (not us) who'll be wearing the winning design, but you're a dick and you cost

Kenley

the win.

Real

fashion designers,

Isaac Mizrahi

and

Georgina Chapman

praised the design and gave expert reasons why Kenley's was the best. Georgina even pointed how successfully the balance of proportion and volume weighed out with this look. But it was clear, at the end, that the best design didn't qualify, it was only Pharrell's choice that mattered.

At the request of Georgina Chapman,

Jerell

raised the long, unflattering black skirt to expose the model's black-hosed legs. He possibly may have stayed in the competition if he had nixed the skirt. What a huge difference not having it made to the entire look. Too bad Jerell and goodbye.

Cry baby,

Austin Scarlett

won the challenge and could have also won an Academy Award for his "tearful" breakdown when Pharrell called him a "star." His high-tech, futuristic Marie Antoinette -esque design was good. I liked it. I just didn't love it.

The best part

: in the

After the Runway

segment, Isaac Mizrahi didn't hold back in telling Austin that Kenley should have won the challenge!

Pet peeve -side note:

Project Runway, Project Runway All Stars, Lifetime TV & Producers, EVERYONE knows that

Heidi Klum

coined the phrase: "As you know 

in fashion

, 

one day you

'

re in

. And the next day, you're out." Its hers, WE get it! Why must you force poor

Angela Lindvall

to preface it with "as you know" or "as its been said"... stop it!!

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