Fashion Trust U.S. — the nonprofit committed to funding and nurturing young design talent — hosted its inaugural awards ceremony on Tuesday evening in Los Angeles, awarding designer prizes in six categories. Hosted by comedian Phoebe Robinson at Goya Studios, the organization gave out awards in Ready-to-Wear, Jewelry, Inclusivity, Sustainability, as well as a Graduate Award and Google Creativity Award. The latter recognizes a designer making an impact through creativity. Here are the night’s winners, who each took home a Fairmined gold trophy designed by sculptor and jeweler Ana Khouri: Aisling Camps received the St. John Ready-to-Wear Award, allowing the designer to produce a collaboration with the Southern California luxury brand and receive mentorship by its global chief executive officer Andy Lew. He and Maria Sharapova gave out the award. Camps is a New York-based mechanical engineer-turned-knitwear designer whose comfy-sexy pieces have been worn by Michelle Obama, Jennifer Aniston, Cardi B and more. The Jewelry award went to Soull and Dynasty Ogun of L’Enchanteur, presented by Tracee Ellis Ross. The Brooklyn-based identical twin creators, whose talisman-like jewelry was featured in Beyonce’s “Black is King” album, and has been worn by Erykah Badu and others, will be given a grant and professional mentorship from
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