Neiman Marcus Fashion Award
award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion
The Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion was a yearly award created in 1938 by Carrie Marcus Neiman and Stanley Marcus. Unlike the Coty Award, it was not limited to American-based fashion designers. Recipients of the Neiman Marcus Awards include couturiers, non-American-based designers, journalists, manufacturers, and celebrities and style icons who had had a significant personal influence upon fashion such as Grace Kelly and Grace Mirabella. The award was typically presented to multiple recipients each year, rather than to a single individual, although Adrian was the sole winner in 1943, a feat repeated in 1957 by Coco Chanel. From 1969 the awards became increasingly intermittent, with ceremonies held in 1973, 1979, 1980, 1984 and 1995, the last year in which the awards were presented. For the final ceremony, the founder, Stanley Marcus, received one of his own awards.
Award winners
This is a complete list of recipients of the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award from 1938 onwards.
1938-1949
1938
Louise B. Gallagher
John-Frederics
Richard Koret
Dorothy Liebes
George Miller
Germaine Monteil
Dan Palter
Nettie Rosenstein
1939
Elizabeth Arden
Hattie Carnegie
John Cavanagh
Janet May
Clare Potter
1940
Edna Woolman Chase
Lilly Daché
Elsa Schiaparelli
Sylvan Stroock
1941
Anthony Blotta
Omar Kiam
Eleanor LeMaire
Max Meyer
Carmel Snow
Madame Tobe
1942
Betsy Blackwell
Norman Norell
Voris
1943
Adrian
1944
Brooke Cadwallader
Jo Copeland
Countess Mara
Ben King
1945
Tina Leser
Vera Marghab
Maurice Rentner
Dr. Francis Taylor
Thea Tewi
Louis A Weinberg
Emily Wilkens
1946
John M. Gates, design director for Steuben Glass Works
William H. and Faie Joyce of Joyce Shoes
Slim Keith (as Mrs. Leland Hayward)
William and Elizabeth Phelps
Adele Simpson
1947
Christian Dior
Salvatore Ferragamo
Norman Hartnell
Irene Gibbons
1948
Mme.
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