One of the big winners of the evening, Lady Gaga's response to a text message from The Anna Wintour informing her of the good news that she'd won the CFDA Fashion Icon Award. She among others such as Alexander Wang who was awarded Accessory Designer of the Year, Creative Director of Celine Phoebe Philo, International Award and Marc Jacobs accepted the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award, re-named the "Half-Lifetime Achievement Award."My favorite award of the evening, the Media Award, received by the fashion director of Telegraph, Hilary Alexander. She accepted the award in honor of the entire British fashion industry and British fashion journalism. Paper magazine Editorial Director Mickey Boardman told HuffPost, "Hilary has such personality, she has such personal style and when someone has been involved in fashion as long as she has and they have such a point of view, it's hard to lose somebody like that. It takes a lifetime to build up that kind of knowledge and that kind of point of view. Plus, she's just fun, although I wish she would quit smoking because it's just bad for her ... You know, she's a real writer, she's not someone who's like, 'Oh, I love fashion, oh, I want to get into the Alexander Wang sample sale.' She goes to all of the shows. She writes about designers who aren't necessarily 'the hot designer,' but she writes about what she thinks should be written about. So she's a real journalist. She's not just a fashion journalist, she's a journalist."
Inspired much?
My fans, some of them don't know who they are and they have so much trouble. They come to the Monster Ball to find who they are and they wake up in the morning and it's that leather jacket that makes them feel like they can be anyone. Or it's that YSL blazer that they saw in the window that makes them feel like they could be president one day. Fashion means so much to them. It's really hard to talk about ... I always felt like I had made it before I had made it because of all of you, because it was all of you that made me feel like I was a star."
-LADY GAGA
