{"id":6329,"date":"2010-09-13T00:09:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T00:09:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:19:26","slug":"asians-show-a-strong-presence-at-fashion-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=6329","title":{"rendered":"Asians Show a Strong Presence at Fashion Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist for the <strong>Global Fashion Awards<\/strong> was announced today and it is proving that Asians in the fashion industry are big players. <\/p>\n<p>At the inaugural <strong>Global Fashion Awards <\/strong>hosted by <strong>WGSN<\/strong>, Asian designers and tastemakers are dominant in many categories. The Awards saw over 800 entries from across the globe and dwindled it down to those most impressive. Womenswear designer, <strong>Alexander Wang<\/strong> was in the category for <strong>Most Influential Designer &#8211; Women<\/strong>. Wang is the only designer from the US to be nominated. Internationally, <strong>Lane Crawford<\/strong> from Hong Kong was nominated for <strong>Outstanding Visual Merchandising<\/strong>, Japanese giant <strong>Uniqlo<\/strong> was in the category for <strong>Most Influential Design Team Brand or Retailer,<\/strong> <strong>The Loot<\/strong> in India was voted for <strong>Emerging Brand or Retailer<\/strong> and the <strong>New Balance<\/strong> stores in Beijing and Shanghai were both shortlisted for <strong>Outstanding New Store<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The judging panel includes two Asian tastemakers including Vietnamese-American designer,<strong>Thuy Diep<\/strong>, and Indian jewelry designer, <strong>Mawi Keivom<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The event will take place on <strong>November 10th<\/strong> at the <strong>Waldorf Astoria<\/strong>. A full copy of the 2010 shortlist can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emapawards.com\/EMAP\/media\/uploaded\/EVEMAP\/event_76\/wgsnshortlist_FINAL.pdf\" title=\"Shortlist\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist for the Global Fashion Awards was announced today and it is proving that Asians in the fashion industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":914,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1004],"tags":[2109],"class_list":["post-6329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","tag-fashion"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Gerry","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dced5247c785a35531cefaa537a22267219a283257394cd62377f4e1af43b4dc?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The shortlist for the Global Fashion Awards was announced today and it is proving that Asians in the fashion industry","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Fashion"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":152,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Gerry","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=914"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dced5247c785a35531cefaa537a22267219a283257394cd62377f4e1af43b4dc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1004\">Fashion<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}