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"      To Lee, With Love, Nick \u2013 A Tribute to Alexander McQueen By Nick Knight from SHOWstudio on Vimeo. The British Fashion Council tonight awarded their star players for the part they play when it comes to turning heads and profits for the country&amp;#039;s fashion business, a \u00A3377 billion business last year. Hundreds of the city&amp;#039;s fashion gliteratti poured into the recently refurbished Savoy Hotel to announce the winners. A posthumous Outstanding Achievement Award was given to Alexander McQueen at the start (in his lifetime, he won four BFA Designer of the Year awards), presented by the British Prime Minister&amp;#039;s wife Samantha Cameron; she wore a gorgeous structural floor length satin gown by Osman. A video montage of McQueen&amp;#039;s most memorable pieces, directed with haunting intensity by fashion film nobility Nick Knight was overlayed with a soundtrack by Bjork. The night&amp;#039;s big winner and British Fashion Designer of the Year went to Phoebe Philo for her work with C\u00E9line. The designer looked unsurprisingly understated and sexy in a dark strapless jumpsuit sans jewelry. In her thank you&amp;#039;s she singled out her chef d&amp;#039;atelier who once drove to London from Paris with their samples in his little Fiat when the snow had grounded all the planes. Nicholas Kirkwood, the creative director of Pollini and an incurable collaborator, had an uproarious posse of support as he once again nabbed the award for Accessory Designer of the Year, presented by Claudia Schiffer. Meanwhile, Daisy Lowe presented the award for Menswear Designer of the Year to Patrick Grant of bespoke tailor E.Tautz. (Lowe&amp;#039;s black lace gown made of sweeping bias panels took its own audience award for dramatic entrance.) Grant accepted the award on behalf of the heritage brand and thanked his crew for hanging in there despite &amp;quot;Dickensian wages,&amp;quot; humbly admitting he&amp;#039;d be cycling home tonight if it made them feel any better. Lara Stone, the Dutch-Britsh belle of gap-toothed fame, and current face of both Calvin Klein and Louis Vuitton, won Model of the Year \u2014 she wore a shoulder to hem draped white minidress. On the other end of the spectrum, Gaga guru and stylist boy wonder Nichola Formichetti won the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator. He calls his style a mix of east and west, boy and girl, and couture with street cred and the newly installed creative director of Thierry Mugler beat out industry veterans Nick Knight and Rankin; a tiny, tearful Daphne Guinness presented him with the honor. She wore a platinum strapless gown,. The British Style Award \u2014 the only one decided by a public vote \u2014 went to local favorite Alexa Chung. She wore platform Mary Janes with a white lace baby doll coatdress. A Special Recognition Award went to a sobby but stunning Naomi Campbell for 25 years in the business, and for having been the first woman of color to land magazine covers in the 80\u2032s. Her hot-off-the-cutting-table gown, made by Sarah Burton, was black velvet with a jewel encrusted bodice over a sheer skirt with a velvet hem. The award was presented by Edward Enninful who first shot Naomi for iD when she only 15; of the world&amp;#039;s need for women of color as style icons he said, &amp;quot;We no longer have Josephine Baker walking the streets of Paris with her cheetah, we have Naomi. And if she didn&amp;#039;t exist we&amp;#039;d have made her up.&amp;quot; The same might be said of all the night&amp;#039;s winners. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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