CFDA Scholarship Fund Names Its 2026 Recipients in Its 30th Year, Drawing From Nearly 700 Submissions
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has announced the 2026 recipients of its Scholarship Fund, which marks its 30th anniversary this year. It was the fund's most competitive cycle to date: nearly 700 submissions came in from fashion students at 29 schools, 50 finalists presented their work to a committee between April and June, and 24 students were awarded scholarships across the fund's programs.
Seven scholarship programs ran this year, five of them debuting in 2026: the Carolina Herrera Women in Design Scholarship, the Melvin and Monique Rodriguez Family Foundation Scholarship, the PVH Foundation Runway Ahead Scholarship, the Saint Laurent Scholarship, and the Tiffany & Co. Jewelry Design Scholar Award. The Veronica Beard Creative Futures Scholarship returned for its second year, and the Geoffrey Beene Design Scholar Award and the Liz Claiborne Honorarium continued.
Among the named awards, the inaugural Carolina Herrera recipients, Anezka Rysava and Giang Luu, both FIT BFA candidates, each received $40,000 plus summer internships at the brand's Manhattan headquarters. The four PVH Foundation Runway Ahead recipients each received $25,000 and access to PVH brand archives for research. Alexia Magdaleno received the $10,000 Liz Claiborne Honorarium. The Rodriguez Foundation's inaugural class of ten students begins a three-year scholarship, this year themed on "Hair," before a committee that included CFDA Chairman Thom Browne and designer Sergio Hudson.
Open to undergraduate juniors and first-year graduate students in fashion design and related programs at American colleges and universities, the fund has awarded approximately $5.9 million through 415 scholarships since 1996, making it one of the longest-running talent pipelines in American fashion education. (Source: Council of Fashion Designers of America)
Source: Council of Fashion Designers of America
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Photo: 图：位于纽约的 The New School 大学中心，Parsons 设计学院隶属该校，多位 CFDA 奖学金得主在此就读。Wikimedia Commons 图片（CC BY 2.0）。 / Photo: The University Center of The New School in New York, home to Parsons School of Design, where several CFDA scholarship recipients study. Image via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).
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