THE 39TH ANNUAL FGI NIGHT OF STARS
FGI Night of Stars honors the achievements of outstanding individuals in fashion beauty, entertainment, sustainability, and humanitarian communities. This star-studded, red carpet gala is covered by international press with a guest list that includes global celebrities, key industry leadership, policy makers, tastemakers and more!
PAST HONOREES AND PRESENTERS
Tommy Hilfiger, Dries Van Noten, Anna Sui, Olivier Rousteing, Iman, Katie Holmes, Riccardo Tisci, Simone Rocha, Dionne Warwick, Deepak Chopra, Christian Siriano, Mariska Hargitay, Prabal Gurung, Rick Owens, Kim Kardashian, Diane von Furstenberg, Michael Kors, Nicki Minaj, Laverne Cox, Ralph Rucci and more!
FGI FOUNDATION
The FGI Night of Stars is FGI’s largest and most important fundraiser to support FGI’s mission to provide
essential education, business grants, scholarships and critical industry resources for professional development, mentorship and career tools for success across all industries to our professional community.
FGI LEGACY
FGI was founded by 17 women and in 1936, initiated one of the first female-led Board of Directors to create
a professional community across all industries, provide essential industry resources and education to the FGI membership. Some of the founders and charters include Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden, Edna Woodman Chase, Dorothy Shaver, Edith Head and Eleanor Roosevelt.
FGI ARCHIVES
Fashion Group Foundation owns over 80,000 fashion images, in slides format, of American and European
collections originating from 1948 , the FGI women’s history including 80 books of “minutes” of FGI meetings with the historic, female-led Board of Directors and FGI’s legacy membership applications including those of Donna Karan, Eleanor Lambert, and more throughout history. The archive is partially housed at the NYPL with a total of over 300 boxes of archival documents. The goal for the FGI archive is to digitize all materials so that it may be referenced and provide an educational resource to our professional community.