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The Neiman Marcus
Neiman Marcus
Neiman Marcus, formerly Neiman-Marcus, is a luxury specialty retail department store operated by the Neiman Marcus Group in the United States. The company is headquartered in the One Marcus Square building in Downtown Dallas, Texas, and competes with other department stores such as Saks Fifth...

Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion was a yearly award created in 1938 by Stanley Marcus

Stanley Marcus

Harold Stanley Marcus was an early president and later chairman of the board of the luxury retailer Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas, which his father and aunt had founded in 1907...

. Unlike the Coty Award

Coty Award

The Coty American Fashion Critics' Awards were first announced in January 1942 by the cosmetics and perfume company Coty, Inc. to promote and celebrate American fashion, and encourage design during the Second World War. The first awards were presented in January 1943, with Norman Norell winning...

, it was not limited to American-based fashion designers. Recipients of the Neiman Marcus Awards include couturiers

Haute couture

Haute couture refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable seamstresses,...

, non-American based designers, journalists, manufacturers, and celebrities and style icons who had had a significant personal influence upon fashion such as Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of...

and Grace Mirabella

Grace Mirabella

Grace Mirabella is a former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine. She started working at Vogue in the 1950s and served as editor in chief between 1971 and 1988.-Biography:...

. The award was typically presented to multiple recipients each year, rather than to a single individual, although Adrian

Adrian (costume designer)

Adrian Adolph Greenberg , most widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career, he designed costumes for over 250 films and his screen credits usually read as...

was the sole winner in 1943, a feat repeated in 1957 by Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist thought, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. She was the founder of one of the most famous fashion brands, 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

Germaine Monteil

Germaine Monteil was a New York based French fashion designer and cosmetician who founded the cosmetics and perfume company sharing her name.-Fashion:...

Nettie Rosenstein

Nettie Rosenstein was an acclaimed Jewish-American fashion designer, based in New York between c.1913 and 1975. She was particularly renowned for her little black dresses and costume jewellery.-Early life:...

Dorothy Liebes

Dorothy Wright Liebes was an American textile designer and weaver renowned for her innovative, custom-designed modern fabrics for architects and interior designers. She was known as "the mother of modern weaving".- Early life :...

Louise B. Gallagher

Dan Palter

George Miller

John-Frederics

Mr. John

John P. John was an American milliner. According to the New York Times, "in the 1940s and 1950s, the name Mr. John was as famous in the world of hats as Christian Dior was in the realm of haute couture".-Biography:...

Richard Koret

1939

Clare Potter

Clare Potter was a fashion designer who was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1903. In the 1930s she was one of the first American fashion designers to be promoted as an individual design talent. She has been credited as one of the inventors of American sportswear. Based in Manhattan, she...

Hattie Carnegie

Hattie Carnegie was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1960s. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary as Henrietta Kanengeiser....

Elizabeth Arden

Florence Nightingale Graham , who went by the business name Elizabeth Arden, was a Canadian-American businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. At the peak of her career, she was one of the wealthiest women in the world.-Biography:Arden was born in 1884 at Woodbridge, Ontario,...

John Cavanagh

John Cavanagh (hatter)

John Cavanagh was an American gentleman's hatter based in New York.In 1880 he began working for Crofut & Knapp, where he was mentored by James H. Knapp...

Janet May

1940

Lilly Daché

Lilly Daché was a French milliner and fashion designer.She was born in Bègles, Gironde, France, and began her fashion career there at the age of 15 as a milliner, apprenticed under Caroline Reboux and Suzanne Talbot. Although she is said to have emigrated to the United States in 1924, the 1930 U.S...

Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli's designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborators...

Sylvan Stroock

Edna Chase

1941

Eleanor LeMaire

Carmel Snow

Carmel Snow was the influential editor of the American edition of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958 and, after her retirement, the chairman of the magazine's editorial board.-Family:...

Anthony Blotta

Omar Kiam

Madame Tobe

Max Meyer

1942

Norman Norell

Norman Norell was an American fashion designer, known for his elegant suits and tailored silhouettes....

Voris

Betsy Talbot Blackwell

1943

Adrian

Adrian (costume designer)

1944

Brooke Cadwallader

Jo Copeland

Ben King

Countess Mara

Countess Mara, founded in 1935 by Lucila Mara de Vescovi, was a menswear fashion label specialising in high-end pictorial neckties. The brand has been owned by Randa Accessories since 1998.- History :...

1945

Tina Leser

Vera Marghab

Maurice Rentner

Dr. Francis Taylor

Thea Tewi

Louis A Weinberg

Emily Wilkens

1946

Adele Simpson

Adele Simpson was a child performer in vaudeville who danced in productions with Milton Berle and other entertainers. She became a fashion designerwhose influence continued for nearly five decades.-Design career:...

Slim Keith

Nancy "Slim" Keith, Lady Keith was a New York socialite and fashion icon during the 1950s and 1960s, exemplifying the American jet set...

(as Mrs. Leland Hayward)

William H. Joyce

Faei Joyce

William Phelps

John Gates

1947

Christian Dior

Christian Dior , was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior.-Life:...

Salvatore Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo was a Florentine and Italian shoe designer. He worked with many Hollywood stars in the 1920s, before returning to Italy to found the eponymous company making unique hand-made footwear. His scientific and creative approach to shoes spawned many innovations such as the wedge heel...

Norman Hartnell

Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell, KCVO was a British fashion designer. Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to HM The Queen 1940, subsequently Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother...

Irene Gibbons

1948

Claire McCardell

Claire McCardell was an American fashion designer in the arena of ready-to-wear clothing in the 20th century. From the 1930s to the 1950s, she was known for designing functional, affordable, and stylish women’s sportswear within the constraints of mass-production, and is today acknowledged as the...

Antonio Castillo

Mme. Henri Bonnet

Julius Ochs Adler

Julius Ochs Adler was an American publisher, journalist, and United States Army general.-Biography:Adler was born on December 3, 1892, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Harry Clay Adler and Ada Ochs. After graduating from Princeton University in 1914 he was employed by The New York Times...

1949

Jacques Fath

Jacques Fath was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three dominant influences on postwar haute couture, the others being Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain.-Career:The son of André Fath, an Alsatian-Flemish insurance agent, Fath came from a creative family...

Alice Cadolle

David Evins

Gladys Geissman (Merry Hull)

Merry Hull

Gladys Geissmann, better known as Merry Hull was an American accessory designer who created Fashion Turnabouts for readers of This Week magazine....

1950-1959

1950

Bonnie Cashin

Bonnie Cashin is considered one of the most significant pioneers of designer ready-to-wear, more commonly called sportswear, in America. Among the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful designers of the 20th century, Cashin was revered for her intellectual, artistic, and...

Pauline Trigère

Pauline Trigère was a French-born American fashion designer, known for her crisp, tailored cuts and innovative ideas.The daughter of a tailor, Trigère was able to operate a sewing machine by age 10 and often assisted her dressmaker mother. Shortly after leaving school, Pauline was employed as a...

Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the...

Fleur Meyer

1951

Michelle Murphy

Ernestine Cannon

Jane Derby

Jane Derby was a top-of-the-line ready-to-wear American fashion designer from the 1930s to 1965....

Ben Zuckerman

Jacques Lesur

1952

Anne Fogarty

Roger Fare

Vincent Monte Sano

Dolores del Río

Dolores del Río was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood...

1953

Charles James

Charles James (designer)

Charles James was a fashion designer known as America's first couturier. He is considered a master of cutting and is known for his highly structured aesthetic.-Early life:...

Marchesa Olga di Gresy

Ben Sommers

Gilbert & Helen Orcel

1954

James Galanos

James Galanos is an American fashion designer, widely considered to be one the world's foremost 20th century couturiers.-Early life:James Galanos was born September 20, 1924 in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only son of Greek-born parents...

Emilio Pucci

Emilio Pucci, Marquis of Barsento , was a Florentine Italian fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colours.-Early life:...

Herbert

Herbert Levine

Herbert Levine was an American fashion executive active from the 1940s through the 1970s. Together with his fashion designer wife, Beth Levine, he led the fashion accessory Herbert Levine label bearing his name until 1975.- Life :...

& Beth Levine

Beth Levine

Beth Levine was an American fashion designer most known for her designs from the 1940s through the 1970s....

1955

Pierre Balmain

Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain was a French fashion designer. Known for sophistication and elegance, he once said that "dressmaking is the architecture of movement."...

Vera Maxwell

Vera Huppe Maxwell was a legendary sportswear and fashion designer until her retirement in 1985.She was the first American designer to make clothes with Ultrasuede material...

Florence Eiseman

Sally Kirkland

Sally Kirkland (editor)

Sally Kirkland was a manager at Lord & Taylor, a fashion editor at Vogue and the only fashion editor at Life for 25 years....

Henry Dreyfuss

Henry Dreyfuss was an American industrial designer.-Career:Dreyfuss was a native of Brooklyn, New York. As one of the celebrity industrial designers of the 1930s and 1940s, Dreyfuss dramatically improved the look, feel, and usability of dozens of consumer products...

Princess Grace of Monaco

Grace Kelly

1956

Giuliana Camerino

Giuliana Camerino was an Italian fashion designer who founded the Roberta di Camerino fashion house in Venice, the only major Italian fashion brand to be based in the historic seafaring and trading city. The label is principally known for its velvet handbags, though it has also produced...

Cecil Beaton

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre...

Marie-Louise Bousquet

1957

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

Coco Chanel

1958

Yves Saint Laurent

Jens Harald Quistgaard

Helen Lee

Helen Lee was an American fashion designer of children's clothes.She was born in Knoxville and studied at New York at the Art Students League and at the Traphagen School of Art....

1959

Arnold Scaasi

Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame...

Piero Fornasetti

Emme

1960-1969

1960

Sylvia Pedlar

Roger Jean-Pierre

Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality...

Edward Burke Smith

Claude Staron

1961

Roger Vivier

Roger Vivier was a French fashion designer who specialized in shoes. His best known creation was the Stiletto heel.Vivier has been called the "Fragonard of the shoe" and his shoes "the Fabergé of Footwear" by numbers of critics. He designed extravagant richly-decorated shoes that he described as...

Greer Garson

Greer Garson, CBE was a British-born actress who was very popular during World War II, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award...

Harry Rolnick

Ferdinando Sarmi

Sydney Wragge

1962

Estée Lauder

Estée Lauder (person)

Estée Lauder was an American businesswoman who was the co-founder, along with her husband Joseph Lauder, of Estée Lauder Companies, a pioneering cosmetics company. Lauder was the only woman on TIME magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century. She was the...

Jules-François Crahay

James Laver

James Laver CBE FRSA was an author, art historian, and museum curator who acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938 and 1959...

Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...

1963

Georges Braque

Georges Braque[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.-Early Life:...

Bud Kilpatrick

Margaret Clarke Miller

Maurice Tumarkin

1964-1965

The awards for 1964 and 1965 were combined into one award for the two years

Geoffrey Beene

Geoffrey Beene was an American fashion designer.Beene was born in Haynesville, Louisiana. He studied medicine at Tulane University, but dropped out in 1946, after three years. He moved to New York in 1947 to attend the Traphagen School of Fashion...

Tzaims Luksus

-Biography:Tzaims Luksus was born in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. on January 1, 1932 son of John James [Prince Ivan Yusefovitch Yusupov-Luksiev] and Beulah Maude Wingfield-Driver-Luksus. He is regarded by those who know him as a Renaissance Man...

Mr & Mrs. Arthur Edelman

1966

Mila Schön

Mila Schon

Mila Schön was an Italian-born fashion designer. Marella Agnelli was one of her early clients.Born Maria Carmen Nutrizio, in Traù – now Croatia – on September 28, 1915 to wealthy Italian aristocratic parents who relocated to the Italian peninsula when Schön was a child, she is known for her...

Mary Brosnan

Mme Helen Lazareff

Lucie Ann Onderwyzer

Jacques Tiffeau

1967

Valentino

Fiamma Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo

The Artisans of Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

Giancarlo Venturini

Lydia de Roma

1968

Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta is one of the world's leading fashion designers. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1973.-Career:...

Kenneth Jay Lane

Kenneth Jay Lane is an American costume jewelry designer.- Biography :Born in Detroit, Michigan he is an alumnus of Detroit Central High School, the University of Michigan and the Rhode Island School of Design....

Armi Ratia

Armi Ratia was the founder of the Finnish textile and clothing company Marimekko Oy. She is one of the most famous female entrepreneurs in Finland....

Roland Jourdan

1969

Bill Blass Limited

Bill Blass Limited is a fashion house founded by American designer Bill Blass. It is known for its highly priced, beautifully cut womenswear, notable for its inventive combinations of patterns and textures...

Emanuel Ungaro

Emanuel Ungaro is a French fashion designer.-Early life:Ungaro's Italian father fled to France from Francavilla Fontana of Brindisi province because of the fascist uprising in Italy...

Gloria Vanderbilt

Gloria Laura Vanderbilt is an American artist, author, actress, heiress, and socialite most noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans...

Anne Klein

Anne Klein was an American fashion designer who founded her own women's sportswear and apparel label.-Biography:Anne Klein was born as Hannah Golofski in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York on August 3, 1923...

Bernard Kayman

1970-1995

1973

Hanae Mori

Hanae Mori is a fashion designer in Japan. She is the only Japanese woman to have presented her collections on the runways of Paris and New York, and the first Asian woman to be admitted as an official haute couture design house by the fédération française de la couture in France...

Missoni

Missoni is an Italian fashion house based in Varese. It is famous for its unique knitwear, made from a variety of fabrics in colourful patterns. The company was founded by Ottavio and Rosita Missoni in 1953.-Brands:...

Jean Muir

Jean Elizabeth Muir, CBE, FCSD was an English fashion designer .-History and early career:...

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer and business executive; best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.-Early life:...

Levi Strauss & Co

1979

Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy, with an annual turnover of $1.6 billion and a...

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...

Baccarat

Perry Ellis

Perry Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded a sportswear house in the mid-1970s.-The rise of Perry Ellis:...

Mary McFadden

Mary Josephine McFadden is an American fashion designer and writer.-Family:McFadden is the only daughter of Alexander Bloomfield McFadden, a cotton broker, and her mother was the former Mary Josephine Cutting, a socialite and concert pianist. Her father died in 1948, when he was killed in an...

1980

Judith Leiber

Judith Leiber is a designer of luxury handbags.Peto was the first woman to join the handbag-makers guild in Budapest. A Jew, she escaped the Holocaust of World War II to the safety of the Swiss house when her father was able to obtain a Swiss schutzpass, a document that gave the bearer safe passage...

Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel...

1984

Issey Miyake

is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances.-Life and career:Miyake was born 22 April 1938 in Hiroshima, Japan. As a seven year-old, he witnessed and survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. He studied...

Jack Lenor Larsen

Jack Lenor Larsen is a textile designer, author and collector and promoter of traditional and contemporary craftsmanship in all its forms.-Early life and education:...

1995

Stanley Marcus

Harold Stanley Marcus was an early president and later chairman of the board of the luxury retailer Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas, which his father and aunt had founded in 1907...

Miuccia Prada

Miuccia Prada is an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur. She also has a Ph.D. in Political Science.Prada was born in Milan, the youngest granddaughter of Mario Prada, founder of the company. According to: Forbes.com's The World's Richest People 2001: "She and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli,...

Jean-Paul Goude

Jean-Paul Goude is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer and advertising film director. He created several well-known campaigns for brands such as Perrier, Citroën and Chanel....

Grace Mirabella

Grace Mirabella is a former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine. She started working at Vogue in the 1950s and served as editor in chief between 1971 and 1988.-Biography:...

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