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FASHION'S "COTY AWARDS"
by Bernadine Morris

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[[caption]] Left: a black velvet costume designed by 1955 Coty Award winner, Anne Klein. Top right: midnight velvets by 1977 winners Donna Karan and Louis Dell' Olio, who took over designing for Anne Klein's firm after her death in '74. Above: a gown (1950's) by Norman Norell, who received the very first Coty Award in 1943.[[/caption]]

When the envelope was finally opened, after the chairman, Carrie Donovan, had made the obligatory suspense-prolonging remarks, the audience sat hushed for a moment - and then broke into wild applause.
 
Donna Karan and Louis Dell'Olio were the winners of this year's Coty Awards. It obviously was a popular choice.
 
A minute or so later, when the two co-designers for Anne Klein had climbed up to the stage of the Fannie and Morris W. Haft auditorium of the Fashion Institute of Technology, and received their trophy, those in the front rows could hear an echoing roar going up backstage. The models, hairdressers and fitters behind the scene had just received the news.

Almost immediately afterward, the entire scene was repeated, with a new protagonist. It was announced that there would be another winner, Stephen Burrows.

The enthusiastic response indicated that the Coty Award, the fashion world's equivalent of the Tony, Emmy and the Oscar, was on target this year.

It was not ever thus. There was the time when the fashion establishment went into