{
  "name": "LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers — Winners 2014–2025",
  "description": "Source: Fax Office 1987 reference archive. https://www.faxoffice1987.com/reference/lvmh-prize-winners",
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "source": "https://www.faxoffice1987.com/reference/lvmh-prize-winners",
  "records": [
    {
      "year": 2014,
      "winners": {
        "main": "Thomas Tait",
        "mainNationality": "Canada",
        "special": ["Hood by Air", "Miuniku"]
      },
      "blurb": "The inaugural prize, awarded the year the program launched under Delphine Arnault. Tait's minimalist tailoring set the template for the prize's house bias toward restrained, technical work."
    },
    {
      "year": 2015,
      "winners": {
        "main": "Marques'Almeida",
        "mainNationality": "Portugal / United Kingdom",
        "special": ["Jacquemus"]
      },
      "blurb": "Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida's frayed-denim signature took the second edition. Jacquemus' Special Prize anchored Simon Porte Jacquemus' Paris ascent."
    },
    {
      "year": 2016,
      "winners": {
        "main": "Grace Wales Bonner",
        "mainHouse": "Wales Bonner",
        "mainNationality": "United Kingdom",
        "special": ["Vejas"]
      },
      "blurb": "Wales Bonner's London-based menswear study of Black male identity and tailoring won the third edition the year after her CSM graduation collection."
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "winners": {
        "main": "Marine Serre",
        "mainNationality": "France",
        "special": ["Kozaburo Akasaka"]
      },
      "blurb": "Serre's upcycled crescent-moon hybrid wear took the prize a year after her Maison Margiela post. The crescent monogram became her signature and a 2018 streetwear-adjacent breakout."
    },
    {
      "year": 2018,
      "winners": {
        "main": "Doublet",
        "mainHouse": "Doublet (Masayuki Ino)",
        "mainNationality": "Japan",
        "special": ["Rokh"]
      },
      "blurb": "Masayuki Ino's subversive Tokyo menswear label took the first prize awarded to a Japanese designer. Doublet's 2018-19 streetwear-meets-tailoring run still shapes Tokyo's menswear field."
    },
    {
      "year": 2019,
      "winners": {
        "main": "Thebe Magugu",
        "mainNationality": "South Africa",
        "kl": "Hed Mayner"
      },
      "blurb": "Magugu's Johannesburg-based womenswear took the prize the year the Karl Lagerfeld Prize replaced the \"Special Prize\" framework. First South African winner. His mother's gardening photographs anchored the winning collection."
    },
    {
      "year": 2020,
      "winners": null,
      "blurb": "No award. The 2020 edition was paused as the pandemic disrupted Paris fashion week and the prize's public ceremony. The €300,000 purse was distributed among the eight finalists: Ahluwalia, Casablanca, Chopova Lowena, Nicholas Daley, Peter Do, Sindiso Khumalo, Supriya Lele, and Tomo Koizumi."
    },
    {
      "year": 2021,
      "winners": {
        "main": "Nensi Dojaka",
        "mainNationality": "Albania / United Kingdom",
        "kl": ["KidSuper", "Lukhanyo Mdingi", "Rui"]
      },
      "blurb": "Dojaka's slip-dress womenswear took the seventh edition. The Karl Lagerfeld Prize was split three ways — the only edition to date with a multi-recipient KL slate."
    },
    {
      "year": 2022,
      "winners": {
        "main": "S.S. Daley",
        "mainHouse": "S.S. Daley (Steven Stokey-Daley)",
        "mainNationality": "United Kingdom",
        "kl": ["ERL", "Winnie NY"]
      },
      "blurb": "Stokey-Daley's English-pastoral menswear took the eighth edition. ERL (Eli Russell Linnetz) and Winnie NY (Idris Balogun) split the Karl Lagerfeld Prize."
    },
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "winners": {
        "main": "Setchu",
        "mainHouse": "Setchu (Satoshi Kuwata)",
        "mainNationality": "Japan",
        "kl": ["Bettter", "Magliano"]
      },
      "blurb": "Kuwata's Milan-based label, which fuses Japanese tailoring with European craft, won the ninth edition. Bettter (Ukraine) and Magliano (Italy) shared the Karl Lagerfeld distinction."
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "winners": {
        "main": "Hodakova",
        "mainHouse": "Hodakova (Ellen Hodakova Larsson)",
        "mainNationality": "Sweden",
        "kl": "Duran Lantink",
        "sf": "Standing Ground"
      },
      "blurb": "Larsson's upcycled-suiting Stockholm label took the tenth edition. The Savoir-Faire Prize was introduced this year to recognize technical craftsmanship; Irish designer Michael Stewart's Standing Ground took it. Duran Lantink (Netherlands) won the Karl Lagerfeld Prize."
    },
    {
      "year": 2025,
      "winners": {
        "main": "Soshi Otsuki",
        "mainHouse": "Soshiotsuki",
        "mainNationality": "Japan",
        "special": ["Steve O Smith", "Torishéju Dumi"]
      },
      "blurb": "Otsuki's Tokyo menswear label, drawn from Kabuki and Rakugo theatre, took the twelfth edition. The third Japanese winner of the prize. €400,000 purse — a record purse for the program. Steve O Smith and Torishéju Dumi received distinctions."
    },
    {
      "year": 2026,
      "winners": null,
      "blurb": "The thirteenth edition is in process. Finalists were announced in April 2026; the winners ceremony has not yet been held. This entry will be updated when the awards are announced."
    }
  ]
}