“This Second Feels Nearly Surreal” : Simon Porte Jacquemus Is Honored by The Couture Council of The Museum at FIT

“I’ll now sing a track,” Simon Porte Jacquemus joked upon receiving a handheld microphone after accepting the 2024 Couture Council Award for Artistry of Style, the Museum on the Style Institute of Expertise’s marquee annual recognition.

The philanthropic luncheon raises funds for the Museum at FIT, which marks itself as New York’s solely museum devoted completely to the artwork of style. Sponsored by Nordstrom for the fifth 12 months at Lincoln Heart’s David H. Koch Theater, proceeds go towards creating museum occasions, together with exhibitions and symposia, that are all free and open to the general public.

“I feel he realizes greater than many designers the unbelievable significance of emotion and the way in which we reply to style… Narrative and biographical components are juxtaposed in his work with the aesthetic of shade and silhouette,” Dr. Valerie Steele, Museum at FIT director and chief curator, shared. Dr. Joyce F. Brown, President of FIT, Pete Nordstrom, President and Chief Model Officer of Nordstrom, and Couture Council members Princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz and Sarah Wetenhall additionally spoke phrases of help for the museum and the 2024 awardee.

“This second feels nearly surreal. At 19, I launched Jacquemus with nothing greater than a dream—no sources, no contacts—only a clear imaginative and prescient to redefine style, to strategy it from a recent perspective,” Jacquemus defined.

Fifteen years after that fateful second of inception, the designer and his line have staked a reputation for themselves in timeless, Mediterranean-forward stylish, alongside daring advertising and marketing campaigns that seize audiences with pleasant vigor. Within the vaunted corridor, the thrill for the event was simply as palpable.

Attendees milled about on the primary (unofficial) day of New York Style Week, many wearing archival items of the model or within the final renditions of summer season finery that can quickly be tucked away for the season. Beneath the lights of the theater and between sips of champagne, it turned clear that this was extra than simply the acceptance of an award, however an indelible sew added to the designer’s ever-growing legacy.