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The CFDA Added a Record High Number of New Members This Year

From left: Charlotte Ronson, Eddie Borgo, Prabal Gurung, Olivier Theyskens, and Stacey Bendet.

The CFDA's 2011 class, which includes last year's CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund runners-up Prabal Gurung and Eddie Borgo, as well as industry darlings like Olivier Theyskens, Charlotte Ronson, and Blake Mycoskie of Toms shoes, is the largest since the organization's founding in 1962. The 33 new members brings the group's total to 406 designers, who will celebrate themselves at a suitably fashionable party thrown by Donna Karan in the fall (last year's party was held at Vera Wang's palatial Park Avenue apartment).

Here's the full list of new members:

A.L.C.’s Andrea Lieberman
Alice + Olivia’s Stacey Bendet
Barker Black Ltd.'s Derrick Miller
Barton Perreira’s Patty Perreira
Blake Mycoskie of Toms Shoes
Charlotte Ronson
Christian Cota
Cynthia Steffe's Shaun Kearney
Eddie Borgo
Fenton/Fallon's Dana Lorenz
Gregory Parkinson
Gryson’s Joy Gryson
Haute Hippie’s Trish Westcoat Pound
Ippolita's Ippolita Rostagno
Jen Kao
Luis Fernandez of Number:Lab
Mara Hoffman
Melissa Joy Manning
Nine West's Fred Allard
Ohne Titel’s Alexa Adams and Flora Gill
Prabal Gurung
Rogan/Loomstate's Scott Hahn and Rogan Gregory
Rubin & Chapelle’s Sonja Rubin and Kip Chapelle
Ruffian’s Brian Wolk and Claude Morais
Tess Giberson
Theory’s Olivier Theyskens
Tucker’s Gaby Basora
United Bamboo’s Thuy Pham and Miho Aoki


CFDA Welcomes 33 New Members [WWD]
Related: Vera Wang’s Kitchen Is ‘Sick,’ and Other Things We Learned at Last Night’s CFDA New Members Party

Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images, Dario Cantatore/Getty Images (2), Stephen Lovekin/Getty Image, Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images

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