The 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards are scheduled for November 3 at the American Museum of Natural History, where they will be hosted by American triple-threat Teyana Taylor, who can be seen in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and, of course, on the runway at Vogue World: Hollywood. The actor, choreographer, and singer joins a list of past hosts that includes Anne Hathaway and Cynthia Erivo.
In addition to honoring American fashion and cementing its future, one of the ceremony’s most endearing traditions is that, in addition to famous presenters, who are more often than not actors, supermodels, and singers—it invites American designers to do the honors. This year, the lineup portends a fabulous night filled with both up-and-comers and stalwarts.
Joseph Altuzarra will present the American Womenswear Designer of the Year award alongside actor Leslie Bibb, who most recently appeared in the third season of The White Lotus. Resident funny guy Benito Skinner of Overcompensating fame will join Jennifer Fisher to introduce the American Accessory Designer of the Year Award. Addison Rae and Christopher John Rogers—both Libras hailing from Louisiana!—will introduce the Google Shopping American Emerging Designer of the Year category, and CFDA chairman Thom Browne will present Ralph Rucci with the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Founder’s Award in honor of Eleanor Lambert will be given to Cynthia Rowley by Julianne Moore, and Jerry Lorenzo of Fear of God will receive the Innovation Award Presented by Amazon Fashion from Ava DuVernay. Ariana DeBose and Amber Valletta will give the Positive Change Award to Donatella Versace, who is being recognized for her advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community, and her support of young talents, and Vogue’s Nicole Phelps will present the Isabel Toledo Board of Directors’ Tribute to her fellow New Yorker Andre Walker. Pieter Mulier will receive the International Designer of the Year Award from Naomi Campbell.
Nominees and honorees were announced early in September as New York Fashion Week got going, and the Council of Fashion Designers of America has shared that the recipient for the Fashion Icon recognition will be none other than Vogue’s May 2025 cover star A$AP Rocky.
The rapper, who is known as a menswear oracle of sorts and acted as co-chair at the 2025 Met Gala, has a label of his own as part of his creative agency AWGE. Rocky is also the creative director of Puma and Ray-Ban and has fronted campaigns for labels including Bottega Veneta and Calvin Klein, in addition to designing a capsule for Moncler. “A$AP Rocky is a fashion icon in the purest form,” CFDA chairman Thom Browne said. “He is one of a kind. His truly original approach to fashion inspires me, and so many, to think differently.”
