WWD Honors | Prix Camera Clara | Planches Contact Festival | Stephen Lawrence Prize | Prix Fluxus-CPGA | Menart Fair | FRAME Awards

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Awards of the Week WWD Honors 2026fashionHaider AckermannWomenswear Designer of the YearHaider Ackermann received the WWD 2026 Honor for Womenswear Designer of the Year. Since taking the creative helm at Tom Ford in 2024, Haider Ackermann has garnered acclaim for his impeccably tailored looks in luxurious fabrics, fluid gowns, sensual eveningwear and arresting color palettes.⁠ "What I'm trying to do is to have a dialogue with the house and Mr.Ford, to open up this conversation and to see where it leads. I don't know at this very minute exactly what I'm adding. Also, the thing is we live in very different times, we have to learn to deal with them, times change and the will of the woman has changed..." Haider Ackermann Image: Tom Ford, Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear by Haider Ackermann.fashionMichael RiderMenswear Designer of the YearSince joining Celine, Michael Rider has brought color, off-kilter styling and a lot of flair to the house’s menswear. With an instinct for "classics with bite," the American designer is giving familiar pieces a new attitude, playing with proportions, unexpected combinations and a broader palette.⁠ His fall 2026 and spring 2027 menswear collections have earned him the 2026 WWD Honor for Menswear Designer of the Year. Celine CEO Séverine Merle says Rider’s vision brings "a different energy, a relaxed, effortless sophistication" to the house’s menswear.⁠Image: Celine, Spring 2027 Menswear Collection by Michael Rider.About the WWD Honors Prix Camera Clara 2026photographyLucie BelarbiPrix Camera ClaraThe Prix Camera Clara 2026 honors visual artist and photographer Lucie Belarbi, born in 1984 in Lisieux, for Paysage Nuit, a series created between 2024 and 2025 using exclusively a view camera. Lucie Belarbi has developed a body of work—which encompasses film photography, video, and performance—that explores the connections between the body, architecture, and public space. With Paysage Nuit, she explores the outskirts: warehouses, roundabouts, junkyards, and unremarkable building facades. These places, photographed in portrait orientation, take on a sense of strangeness that is accentuated by long exposure times and artificial lighting. Female figures—sometimes nude, sometimes lying in the grass or on the asphalt—emerge like apparitions, restoring a human scale while suggesting a possible hostility. Image: Lucie Belarbi, Justice 2, Paysage Nuit series, 2024-2025. © Lucie BelarbiAbout the Prix Camera Clara Planches Contact Festival 2026photographyÉmeline SauserPrix du Jury de la Jeune Création PhotographiqueAt the Planches Contact Festival in Deauville, Normandy, Émeline Sauser received the Prix du Jury de la Jeune Création Photographique 2026 for her series Le Temps d’une nuit. Émeline Sauser’s work particularly moved the jury through the sensitivity of her vision and her ability to capture the intensity of encounters. Through shared nights, aimless wanderings, and suspended dawns, the photographer weaves an intimate narrative imbued with a sense of urgency to live, a desire for connection, and an awareness of the passing of time. Image: Émeline Sauser, Le Temps d’une nuit series. © Émeline SauserAbout the Planches Contact Festival Stephen Lawrence Prize 2026architectureThe ButtermarketStephen Lawrence PrizeThe Stephen Lawrence Prize 2026 has been awarded to The Buttermarket in Redruth, Cornwall, led by emerging architect Jen Boddington from the practice Architectural Thread. The accolade celebrates exceptional architecture led by early-career architects. The Buttermarket successfully transformed a cluster of neglected Grade II listed historic buildings and a market courtyard into a vibrant, fully accessible community hub. The space now accommodates local independent businesses, artisans, food vendors, and a regular events program. Alongside the Stephen Lawrence Prize, the project also won the RIBA's Conservation Award 2026 for its exemplary heritage preservation. Image: Architectural Thread, The Buttermarket, Redruth, Cornwall, UK. Photo: Claire Fear.About the Stephen Lawrence Prize Prix Fluxus-CPGA 2026artMyriam MihindouPrix Fluxus-CPGAMyriam Mihindou and her gallery Phillida Reid are the winners of the fourth edition of the Prix Fluxus-CPGA. The prize was awarded at Frieze London, after the jury visited the stands of the shortlisted galleries. The jury praised "the singular and striking clarity" of Myriam Mihindou’s work: "We were deeply moved by its sensitivity, its embrace of fragility, and the generosity of both its process and presentation. Bringing a strong sense of community into a compelling and accessible formal language, the work offers an inviting point of entry while retaining its depth and coherence. We were equally impressed by the thoughtful dialogue between the artist’s practice and the gallery’s vision." Image: Myriam Mihindou, Fleurs de Peau, 1999-2024. Marseille soap, hemp, needles, wax, cotton, latex, kaolin, Meudon white, raku. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Phillida Reid, London.About the Prix Fluxus-CPGA Menart Fair 2026artMaitha AbdallaCoup de Cœur BoucheronBoucheron has introduced the Coup de Cœur Boucheron, a new award recognising female artists from the Middle East and North Africa, with Emirati multidisciplinary artist Maitha Abdalla named as its inaugural recipient at Menart Fair 2026 in Paris. Her winning sculpture, Hug My Land, is a bronze work depicting a woman embracing herself, exploring the complex relationship between home, memory, identity, and belonging. Created in response to this year’s theme, Where is Home?, the sculpture reflects Abdalla’s belief that home is not always a physical place, but something we may find within ourselves. Image: Maitha Abdalla, Hug My Land, bronze, 2026.About the Menart Fair FRAME Awards 2026designDeRoche ProjectsEmerging Designer of the YearGlenn DeRoche, founder of Accra-based DeRoche Projects, is the recipient of 2026’s Emerging Designer of the Year Award, an honorary category in the FRAME Awards. Committed to restoring what he calls "a growing disconnect between design, making and use," DeRoche asks how architecture can contribute positively to landscapes and communities across decades and generations. In practice, this means creating work that is grounded, durable and open-ended, shaping architecture that acknowledges the past, serves the present and remains accountable to the future. Image: DeRoche Projects, Backyard Community Club, Accra, Ghana, 2025. Photo: Julien Lanoo.DesignGonzalez Haase AASDesigner of the YearBerlin-based Gonzalez Haase AAS is the winner of FRAME’s 2026 Designer of the Year Award. Founded in 1999 by Pierre Jorge Gonzalez and Judith Haase, the studio's early collaborations with artists and cultural institutions helped establish an approach in which space is understood through its relationship with perception and movement. Across subsequent projects, this sensibility has developed into a recognizable architectural language, defined by an exacting treatment of light and material and an ability to respond to different contexts and programmes. Nowhere is this as apparent as in the its retail work, a sector in which Gonzalez Haase AAS has consistently demonstrated how physical environments can communicate brand identity through the experience of space itself. Image: Gonzalez Haase AAS, Ferrari London, United Kingdom, 2026. Photo: Thomas Meyer – Ostkreuz.About the FRAME Awards Hire Your Future! 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