sentences:  Also in 2011 Diane von Fürstenberg, serving as president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, paid tribute to Alexander as an "incredible force" when she won the CFDA's special Eugenia Sheppard Media Award.Designer Michael Kors who presented the award called her "unsinkable".In April 2013 Alexander marked the death of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher with an analysis for "The Daily Telegraph" of her status as "a global style icon", explaining how her image was "beyond the dictates of any designer, let alone the catwalk".