The Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion was a yearly award created in 1938 by Carrie Marcus Neiman and Stanley Marcus. Unlike the Coty Award, it was not limited to American-based fashion designers. Recipients of the Neiman Marcus Awards include couturiers, non-American-based designers, journalists, manufacturers, and celebrities and style icons who had had a significant personal influence upon fashion such as Grace Kelly and Grace Mirabella.Company history on Neiman Marcus' official website, accessed March 22, 2009 The award was typically presented to multiple recipients each year, rather than to a single individual, although Adrian was the sole winner in 1943, a feat repeated in 1957 by Coco 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 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 Miuccia Prada

See also

List of fashion awards

References