Daughter of Jamaican soil, Rachel Scott, founding father of Diotima, the New York-based trend model, was named American Womenswear Designer of the Yr final night time.
You'd bear in mind Scott from the January 2024 Loop Information interview, the place she was recent house to provide an editorial, amongst different content material, for the model, whereas concurrently designing the Fall/Winter 2023 assortment.
The CFDA Trend Awards had been held on the American Museum of Pure Historical past in New York Metropolis on October 28.
CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Yr 2024, Rachel Scott. In a photograph shoot at her New York-based atelier, Scott was seen photographed alongside mannequin Courtney Benboe (left) and proficient Kareen Taylor (proper). (Images: through Instagram/@diotima.world)
The annual occasion celebrates the achievements of designers and different influential figures in American trend, bringing collectively a number of the largest names within the business below the museum's iconic blue whale exhibit for an unforgettable night.
The night was as unforgettable because it was emotional for Scott, who simply launched his Spring/Summer season '24 assortment, dubbed Déjà vu, in February.
Little question he’s recovering from the emotion. That is his second victory within the CFDA in three years of making Diotima.
In 2023, Scott acquired Google Procuring's American Rising Designer of the Yr award, and what a 12 months he's had since. She has launched seven collections and little by little has develop into the mannequin of American girls's trend.
Like one in every of his muses, Laura Facey, Scott has labored his method right into a “you possibly can't ignore me” house. Though she could hate the title of “cool lady,” she is definitely a part of the development and is now in vogue, particularly in New York Metropolis.
To win the CFDA, Scott beat out friends like Marc Jacobs, Jack McCollough and Lázaro Hernández for Proenza Schouler, Thom Browne and Tory Burch.
Unassumingly, he approached the stage to simply accept the awards, and as he spoke, to applause, his acceptance speech was full of gratitude.
She thanked her mom, Ruth, her spouse Chaday, stylist and artistic advisor Marika-Ella Ames, and the tight-knit Diotima tribe of household and associates who preserve her alive.
Following his acceptance, Scott partied in his BedStuy neighborhood at reggae/dub membership Lovers' Rock to nice aplomb and equal applause from his business friends and family members.