The List is In!

(NEW YORK) The Council of Fashion Designers of America, which is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its awards ceremony this June, on Monday announced a group of nominees and award recipients that are on par with the milestone moment.

Oscar de la Renta, Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough for Proenza Schouler, and Marc Jacobs are all up for the Womenswear Designer of the Year award. Their counterparts in the Menswear Designer of the Year award category include Calvin Klein's Italo Zucchelli, Ralph Lauren, and Duckie Brown's Steven Cox and Daniel Silver. Jacobs, meanwhile, returns to join Michael Kors and Derek Lam, all of whom will compete for the Accessory Designer of the Year Award.

The CFDA has elected to rename the lifetime achievement award to honor the late Geoffrey Beene, who in his own lifetime received four CFDA Fashion Awards. The momentous occasion comes as Beene pledged a $5 million donation from his estate to establish a scholarship foundation and to further the goals of the CFDA. The first recipient of the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award will be Robert Lee Morris.

In addition, the first-ever American Fashion Legend Award will be presented to Ralph Lauren, who is celebrating a landmark moment in his own career: 40 years of defining American style.

Other award recipients include Washington Post fashion editor Robin Givhan, who will receive the Eugenia Sheppard Award; Patrick Demarchelier, who will accept the Eleanor Lambert Award; Pierre Cardin, who will receive the International Award, and Bono, who will be honored by the board of directors will be a special accolade.

Swarovski's Perry Ellis Award for emerging talent has been renamed the Swarovski Award. Phillip Lim, Kate & Laura Mulleavy for Rodarte, and Thakoon Panichgul are nominated in the Womenswear category; nominees for menswear include Michael Bastian, Tim Hamilton, and Rag & Bone's David Neville and Marcus Wainwright, and for accessory design, the nominees are Justin Giunta for Subversive, Jessie Randall for Loeffler Randall, and Anna Sheffield for Bing Bang.

The 2007 CFDA Fashion Awards, underwritten by Swarovski for the sixth year in a row, will take place on June 4 at the New York Public Library. They will be produced by KCD while creative director Douglas Lloyd of Lloyd + Co will art direct the graphic presentation.

The nominees and honorees were selected by the CFDA membership, press, retailers and stylists. The nominees, as well as recipients of the honorary awards, were confirmed Monday at a meeting of the CFDA Board of Directors. Ballots will be sent out April 23 and the final votes will be tabulated by Ernst & Young LLP, the official accounting firm of the 2007 CFDA Fashion Awards.