# Neiman Marcus Fashion Award

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. 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