2025 CFDA Design Scholar
The CFDA Design Scholar Award is the highest honor within the CFDA Scholarship Fund, recognizing a BFA fashion design student whose work demonstrates innovation in areas such as sustainable design, new technologies, and boundary-pushing concepts.
The 2025 award was presented to Lana Mingasson of Parsons School of Design for her experimental materiality and forward-thinking approach to sustainable design.
Photographed by Liam Hamilton, Modeled by Othandiwe Ngubane
The dream and poem spelled out on the dress, accompanied by personal and found footage.