The 1950s: Fashion: Awards

THE 1950s: FASHION: AWARDS

Coty American Fashion Critics'
Award

(The "Winnie"—to an individual selected as the leading designer of American women's fashions)

1950—Charles James

Bonnie Cashin

1951—Jane Derby

1952—Ben Zuckerman

Ben Sommers

1953—Thomas F. Brigance

1954—James Galanos

1955—Anne Klein

Jeanne Campbell

Herbert Kasper

1956—Luis Estevez

Sally Victor

1957—Leslie Morris

Sydney Wragge

1958—Arnold Scaasi

1959—No Award

Return Award

(Award to a designer whose work merits a top award for a second time)

1951—Norman Norell

1952—No Award

1953—No Award

1954—No Award

1955—No Award

1956—James Galanos

1957—No Award

1958—Ben Zuckerman

1959—No Award

Hall of Fame

(" Winnie" designer chosen three separate times as best of the year—begun in 1956)

1956—Norman Norell

1957—No Award

1958—Claire McCardell

1959—Pauline Trigere

James Galanos

Special Awards

(Honoring noteworthy contributions to fashion)

1950—Mabel and Charles Julianelli

Nancy Melcher

1951—Vera Maxwell

Anne Fogarty

Sylvia Pedlar

1952—Harvey Berin

Karen Stark

Sydney Wragge

1953—Helen Lee

Mattie Talmack

John Moore

1954—Charles James

1955—Adolfo

1956—Gertrude and Robert Goldworm

1957—Emeric Partos

1958—Donald Brooks

Jean Schlumberger

1959—No Award

Neiman-Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the
Field of Fashion

1950—Bonnie Cashin

Pauline Trigere

Gloria Swanson

Fleur Meyer

1951—Michelle Murphy

Ernestine Cannon

Jane Derby

Ben Zuckerman

Jacques Lesur

1952—Anne Fogarty

Roger Fare

Vincent Monte Santo

Dolores Del Rio

1953—Charles James

Marchesa Olga di Gresy

Ben Sommers

Gilbert and Helen Orcel

1954—James Galanos

Emilio Pucci

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Levine

1955—Pierre Baimain

Florence Eiseman

Vera Maxwell

Sally Kirkland

Henry Dreyfuss

The Princess of Monaco

1956—Giuliana Camerino

Cecil Beaton

Marie-Louise Bousquet

1957—Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

1958—Yves St. Laurent

Jens Quisgaard

Helen Lee

1959—Anne Klein

Arnold Scaasi

Rosalind Russell

Piero Fornasetti

Emme

Thomas b. Clarke Prize
Given by the National
Academy of Design for
Interior Design)

1950—Hazel J. Teyral

1951—Lee Jackson

1952—Doris Rosenthal

1953—Sigmund Menkes

1954—Fletcher Martin

1955—Thomas Yerxa

1956—Adolf Konrad

1957—Morton Roberts

1958—Robert Sivard

1959—Hughie Lee-Smith

American Institute of Architects
(AIA)

AIA Gold Medal (Awarded annually to an individual for distinguished service to the architectural profession or to the institute. It is the institute's highest honor.)

1950—Sir Patrick Abercrombie, London

1951—Bernard Ralph Maybeck, San Francisco

1952—Auguste Perret, Paris

1953—Williams Adams Delano, New York

1954—No Award

1955—William Marinus Dudok, Netherlands

1956—Clarence S. Stein, New York

1957—Ralph Walker, New York

Luis Skidmore, New York

1958—John Wellborn Root, Chicago

1959—Walter Gropius, Cambridge, Massachusetts

AIA Craftsmanship Medal

1950—Joseph Gardinar Reynolds, Jr., Stained Glass

1951—No Award

1952—George Nakashima, Furniture

1953—Emil Frei, Stained Glass

1954—Maria Montoya Martinez, Pottery

1955—John Howard Benson, Calligraphy

1956—Harry Bertoia, Metal Design

1957—Charles Eames, Furniture

1958—Francois Lorin, Stained Glass

1959—No Award

AIA Edward C. Kemper Award (To AIA members for "significant contributions to the profession of architecture and to the Institute.")

1950—William Perkins

1951—Marshall Shaffer

1952—William Stanley Parker

1953—Gerrit J. DeGelleke

1954—Henry H. Saylor

1955—Turpin C. Bannister

1956—Theodore Irving Coe

1957—David C. Baer

1958—Edmund R. Purves

1959—Bradley P. Kidder

AIA Honor Awards (Initiated to encourage appreciation of excellence in architecture in the United States and by American architects working abroad.)

1950—A. Quincy Jones, Jr.

Harold M. Jeatley

Ketchum, Gina and Sharpe Associates

1951—Thorshov and Cerney

Stone and Pitts

1952—Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

William S. Beckett

1953—Saarinen, Saarinen & Associates

Smith, Hinchman and Grylls

1954—Richard P. Neutra and Dion Neutra

Vincent G. King

John P. Wiltshire and J. Herschel Fisher

Curtis and Davis

Perkins and Will

Caudill, Rowlett, Scott Associates

Marsh Smith and Powell

1955—Ralph Rapson and John van der Meulen

Eero Saarinen and Associates

Smith, Hinchman & Grylls

Ernest J. Kump

Charles B. Genther of Pace Associates

1956—Hellmuth, Yamasaki & Leinweber

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Philip C. Johnson

John Lyon Reid & Partners

Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons

1957—Anderson, Beckwith and Haible

Warren H. Ashley

Eliot Noyes

Caudill, Rowlett, Scott & Associates

Antonin Raymond and L. L. Rado

Anshen and Allen

1958—Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Edward D. Stone

Mario J. Ciampi

Pereira and Luckman

1959—Colbert, Lowrey & Associates

Kenneth W. Brooks and Bruce W. Walker

Minoru Yamasaki & Associates

Eero Saarinen & Associates

I. M. Pei & Associates