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The annual CFDA Fashion Awards were held on June 15 in New York at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. CFDA Awards are given for oustanding design and other contributions to the world of fashion in three categories: womenswear, menswear and accessories. CFDA (The Council of Fashion Designers of America) was founded in 1962 and consists of 300 of America’s best fashion and accessory designers. CFDA Awards are one of the most famous in the world and every year this organization tries  to find the most astonishing design, the freshest apparel collection and people with the most innovative ideas.

This year people were also able to vote online for their favourite fashion designer (which was sponsored by L’Oréal Paris) and the first ever Popular Vote Award was won by Ralph Lauren. If you want to find out whose design is considered the best in the year 2009, here is the list of this year’s CFDA Fashion Awards:

Womenswear Designer of the Year: Kate & Laura Mulleavy for Rodarte (presented by Diane Kruger)

Menswear Designer of the Year: Scott Sternberg for Band of Outsiders and Italo Zucchelli for Calvin Klein Collection

Accessory Designer of the Year: Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler (presented by Kerry Washington)

Board of Directors’ Special Tribute Award: First Lady Michelle Obama (for her support to American designers)

Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award: Anna Sui

International Award : Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton

Ralph Lauren, Kate & Laura Mulleavy and Anna Sui

Special Swarovski Awards:

Womenswear Designer of the Year: Alexander Wang

Menswear Designer of the Year: Tim Hamilton

Accessory Designer of the Year: Justin Giunta for Subversive Jewelry

For more information see the CFDA official site