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DNR Inaugurates Annual Menswear Awards: Tom Ford and Dolce & Gabbana

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Brooks Brothers and Thom Browne win “Collaboration of Year”; David Lauren chosen as “Marketer” and Zegna Lauded as “Newsmaker”

NEW YORK, December 6, 2007—DNR has named Tom Ford “Person of the Year” and Dolce & Gabbana “Style Icons” for 2007 in the first annual DNR Menswear awards. The winners will be featured in the magazine’s DNR Menswear Awards issue, on newsstands Monday, December 10th, as well as honored at an awards ceremony at the Four Seasons tomorrow. Other honorees include Brooks Brothers and Thom Browne for “Collaboration of the Year” for their inspired reinvention of an iconic American brand and Paul Stuart’s CEO Clifford Grodd who is receiving the “Lifetime Achievement Award” for having led what is widely considered to be one of the greatest men’s stores in America for over 50 years.

John Birmingham, editor in chief of DNR, says, “After covering men’s wear for more than a century, DNR presents a first: our inaugural yearend awards. From Tom, Thom and Tomas to Brooks and Band of Outsiders, we honor 2007’s most noteworthy accomplishments in design, retail, marketing and entrepreneurship.”

Notable DNR Menswear Award winners include:

• Tom Ford is being honored with “Person of the Year” for his launch which drew global attention to the men’s business and a level of excitement to men’s fashion not seen in years.

• Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are being lauded as “Style Icons” for having created a style commodity that extends well beyond the Italian peninsula. Once considered primarily a women’s fashion house, Dolce & Gabbana just opened their first Manhattan men’s only store, representing the designers burgeoning men’s business and their commitment to it.

• Brooks Brothers and Thom Browne are being named “Collaboration of the Year” for their work on Black Fleece, an upscale, detail-oriented reflection of Browne’s modern sensibility, married with Brooks Brothers’ heritage.

• Clifford Grodd, the CEO and president of Paul Staurt, is being honored with DNR’s “Lifetime Achievement Award” for having defined sartorial excellence with a deft mix of Savile Row and New York Style for 56 years.

• David Lauren, senior vice-president of advertising, marketing and corporate communications for Polo Ralph Lauren, is being presented with “Marketer of the Year” for crafting campaigns that awaken consumers’ desires. Lauren is credited with raising Polo’s visibility in professional sports and with originating the popular Big Pony collection – and he now oversees more than 200 advertising campaigns a year.

• Ermenegildo Zegna is being named “Newsmaker of the Year” for having a monumental year in 2007 for the luxury men’s brand, thanks to a series of high-profile debuts and strategic decisions that kept Zegna at the forefront of the news cycle.

• Saks Fifth Avenue is being awarded with “Retailer of the Year” for being one of the industry’s most impressive turnaround stories. Among the most-recent improvements in men’s are new shops for Canali and Zegna, as well as updated boutiques for Polo and Armani, that make authoritative statements and play into the corporation’s thrust to highlight its most-productive businesses.

For a complete copy of the 2007 DNR Menswear Awards or for more information, please contact Erin Miller at (212) 630-3502 or erin_miller@condenast.com.

DNR is the leading trade publication published weekly by the Fairchild Fashion Group, a division of Condé Nast Publications.