Neiman Marcus Fashion Award

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. Henri Bonnet (wife of Henri Bonnet, French Ambassador to the United States 1944-54)

Antonio del Castillo

Claire McCardell

Julius Ochs Adler

• 1949

Alice Cadolle

David Evins

Jacques Fath

Gladys Geissman (Merry Hull)

1950-1959

• 1950

Bonnie Cashin

Fleur Meyer

Gloria Swanson

Pauline Trigère

• 1951

Ernestine Cannon

Jane Derby

Jacques Lesur

Michelle Murphy

Ben Zuckerman

• 1952

Roger Fare

Anne Fogarty

Vincent Monte-Sano

Dolores del Río

• 1953

Olga di Grésy

Charles James

Gilbert & Helen Orcel

Ben Sommers

• 1954

James Galanos

Herbert & Beth Levine

Emilio Pucci

• 1955

Pierre Balmain

Henry Dreyfuss

Florence Eiseman

Grace Kelly

Sally Kirkland

Vera Maxwell

• 1956

Cecil Beaton

Marie-Louise Bousquet

Giuliana Camerino

• 1957

Coco Chanel

• 1958

Helen Lee

Jens Harald Quistgaard

Yves Saint Laurent

• 1959

Emme

Piero Fornasetti

Rosalind Russell

Arnold Scaasi

1960-1969

• 1960

Sylvia Pedlar

Roger Jean-Pierre

Dinah Shore

Edward Burke Smith

Claude Staron

• 1961

Greer Garson

Harry Rolnick

Ferdinando Sarmi

Roger Vivier

Sydney Wragge

• 1962

Jules-François Crahay

James Laver

Estée Lauder

Sports Illustrated

• 1963

Georges Braque

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

Mr & Mrs. Arthur Edelman

Tzaims Luksus

• 1966

Mary Brosnan

Hélène Gordon-Lazareff

Lucie Ann Onderwyzer

Mila Schön

Jacques Tiffeau

• 1967

Valentino

Fiamma Ferragamo

The Artisans of Florence

Giancarlo Venturini

Lydia de Roma

• 1968

Oscar de la Renta

Kenneth Jay Lane

Armi Ratia

Roland Jourdan

• 1969

Bill Blass

Anne Klein

Bernard Kayman

Emanuel Ungaro

Gloria Vanderbilt

1970-1995

• 1973

Ralph Lauren

Levi Strauss & Co

Hanae Mori

Missoni

Jean Muir

• 1979

Giorgio Armani

Richard Avedon

Baccarat

Perry Ellis

Mary McFadden

• 1980

Karl Lagerfeld

Judith Leiber

• 1984

Jack Lenor Larsen

Issey Miyake

• 1995

Jean-Paul Goude

Stanley Marcus

Grace Mirabella

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