Camera della Moda Finalists, Miu Miu's Tennis Style, Liberty Seems To Print

THE NOMINEES ARE…: The Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana held a press event on Wednesday, teasing the finalists for its upcoming Sustainable Fashion Awards.

The luncheon was held at Casa Cipriani in Lower Manhattan's Seaport neighborhood and featured executives from the CFDA, Launchmetrics and more. Like last year, the Italian fashion chamber partnered with the United Nations Ethical Fashion Initiative for sustainability awards, along with former partners including Eco-Age. This year, support comes from the Italian Trade Agency, among other government groups.

This year, actress Rossy de Palma will present the awards at La Scala theater on September 25, closing Milan Fashion Week.

This year's Sustainable Fashion Awards will award 12 awards, including the Visionary Award, Human Rights Award and Emerging Designers award. The last ceremony was held digitally in 2020 due to the pandemic but this year is shaping up to be mind-blowing.

Over lunch, Desiree Bollier, President of Value Retail Management and Luxury Shopping Center The Bicester Village, announced the three finalists for The Bicester Collection Award for Emerging Designers, including: Torlowei, a global fashion house based in Lagos, Nigeria; sustainable Nigerian brand Nkwo; and Themoiré, a Milan-based fashion project aiming to have the lowest possible environmental impact. Winners will have the chance to benefit from mentorship, production and distribution opportunities.

The judging and advisory board includes the likes of Ethical Fashion Initiative founder Simone Cipriani, Dame Ellen MacArthur and Samata Pattinson of Red Carpet Green Dress, as well as nonprofits such as Textile Exchange and Straighten. The pool of designer candidates has been narrowed from over 300 to a shortlist aided in part by data partner Quantis.

Carlo Capasa is the current president of the country's fashion association which has an impressive board of directors, including Prada's Patrizio Bertelli (co-CEO alongside his wife Miuccia Prada), Marco Bizzarri by Gucci and Gildo Zegna by Ermenegildo Zegna.

As Capasa highlighted in his keynote address, the CNMI Sustainable Fashion Awards will be instrumental in measuring the state of the industry in terms of sustainability, but also inclusiveness and diversity. Since its inception, CNMI has developed comprehensive guidelines in areas such as chemical management, which is used by 92% of the Italian fashion supply chain.

Capasa summed up how far the group mentality has come for the collective.

"In Italy, we are very individualistic. This idea of ​​cooperation was not so easy at first," he said. don't do it. Nobody can say “I am sustainable”, unless the whole chain is sustainable, the whole process is sustainable, the whole distribution is sustainable. It doesn't work alone. That's why I say we have to cooperate. Ourselves, the CFDA ⁠—because we all represent a community. We must work together. —KALEY ROSHITSH

TENNIS, ANYONE? : Miu Miu propelled the fashion crowd into new territory on a warm and sunny Tuesday afternoon: in central Queens, N.Y.

The brand has taken over the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens - the former site of the US Open - for the second edition of the Miu Miu Tennis Club, which launched last week in Saint-Tropez as an immersive celebration of fall collection. Miu Miu's signature was all over the private club: everything from official West Side Tennis Club signage to white tennis balls and club perimeter windshield banners were transformed and branded for the branded club. one day only. Upon arrival, guests received a blue mesh drawstring bag containing two sweatbands - which...