DNR Inaugurates Annual Menswear Awards: Names Tom Ford 'Person of the Year'
and Dolce & Gabbana 'Style Icons'
Brooks Brothers and Thom Browne win "Collaboration of Year"; David Lauren
chosen as "Marketer" and Zegna Lauded as "Newsmaker"
NEW YORK, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- DNR has named Tom Ford "Person of the
Year" and Dolce & Gabbana "Style Icons" for 2007 in the first annual DNR
Menswear awards. The winners will be featured in the magazine's DNR Menswear
Awards issue, on newsstands Monday, December 10th, as well as honored at an
awards ceremony at the Four Seasons tomorrow. Other honorees include Brooks
Brothers and Thom Browne for "Collaboration of the Year" for their inspired
reinvention of an iconic American brand and Paul Stuart's CEO Clifford Grodd
who is receiving the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for having led what is
widely considered to be one of the greatest men's stores in America for over
50 years.
John Birmingham, editor in chief of DNR, says, "After covering men's wear
for more than a century, DNR presents a first: our inaugural yearend awards.
From Tom, Thom and Tomas to Brooks and Band of Outsiders, we honor 2007's most
noteworthy accomplishments in design, retail, marketing and entrepreneurship."
Notable DNR Menswear Award winners include:
-- Tom Ford is being honored with "Person of the Year" for his launch
which drew global attention to the men's business and a level of
excitement to men's fashion not seen in years.
-- Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are being lauded as "Style Icons"
for having created a style commodity that extends well beyond the
Italian peninsula. Once considered primarily a women's fashion house,
Dolce & Gabbana just opened their first Manhattan men's only store,
representing the designers burgeoning men's business and their
commitment to it.
-- Brooks Brothers and Thom Browne are being named "Collaboration of the
Year" for their work on Black Fleece, an upscale, detail-oriented
reflection of Browne's modern sensibility, married with Brooks
Brothers' heritage.
-- Clifford Grodd, the CEO and president of Paul Stuart, is being honored
with DNR's "Lifetime Achievement Award" for having defined sartorial
excellence with a deft mix of Savile Row and New York Style for 56
years.
-- David Lauren, senior vice-president of advertising, marketing and
corporate communications for Polo Ralph Lauren, is being presented with
"Marketer of the Year" for crafting campaigns that awaken consumers'
desires. Lauren is credited with raising Polo's visibility in
professional sports and with originating the popular Big Pony
collection -- and he now oversees more than 200 advertising campaigns a
year.
-- Ermenegildo Zegna is being named "Newsmaker of the Year" for having a
monumental year in 2007 for the luxury men's brand, thanks to a series
of high-profile debuts and strategic decisions that kept Zegna at the
forefront of the news cycle.
-- Saks Fifth Avenue is being awarded with "Retailer of the Year" for
being one of the industry's most impressive turnaround stories. Among
the most-recent improvements in men's are new shops for Canali and
Zegna, as well as updated boutiques for Polo and Armani, that make
authoritative statements and play into the corporation's thrust to
highlight its most-productive businesses.
DNR is the leading trade publication published weekly by the Fairchild
Fashion Group, a division of Conde Nast Publications.
SOURCE DNR
Erin Miller of Conde Nast for DNR, +1-212-630-3502, erin_miller@condenast.com
