AWARD WINNERS
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JULIA HAART
Julia Haart is a self-made businesswoman, designer, and bestselling author.
She was raised in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. At age 42 she fled, changed her name, and without any formal education or background in fashion launched her career as a designer with her namesake shoe collection.
Just a few years later, she was named creative director of La Perla and would become co-owner and CEO of Elite World Group and one of the most influential people in fashion. In 2021, Julia and her NETFLIX hit series "My Unorthodox Life", which streams in over 190 countries, took the world by storm. In her memoir BRAZEN, Julia writes with radical vulnerability and honesty, sharing her deeply personal journey of heartbreak, resilience, and courage to flee a fundamentalist community. Released in April 2022, BRAZEN became an instant bestseller in the U.S. and U.K.
Above all else, Julia applies her experience and platform to be a force for positive change in the world and supporting women who have dedicated their lives to building a better future. With the right for women to choose under threat, Julia has taken a leading role in the pro-choice movement marching in support of women's rights, rallying her community of influential friends and followers, supporting organizations such as #VoteProChoice and Plan C, and serving on the Advisory Council of the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition. With so much at stake at home in the U.S., Julia has also worked tirelessly to campaign for pro-choice politicians and support organizations such as Emerge America to help recruit and train like-minded women to run for office.
As a champion of democracy globally, Julia fights for the right to freedom around the world including Iran and Ukraine where she led a mission to deliver ambulances and critical humanitarian supplies.
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ELTON ILIRJANI
Elton Ilirjani is a social media phenomenon, a fashion influencer, a corporate CEO and a LGBTQIIA+ activist based in Brooklyn, New York.
What Elton is truly known for is his fashion sense and his eccentric and eclectic personality. Elton is known throughout the New York City fashion scene, and has walked for some of the most cutting edge fashion designers at New York Fashion Week.
As a genderless model, he has walked for internationally-acclaimed fashion brands like a scene-stealing protest at Art Basel Miami Beach and BESFXXK, a Seoul fashion brand. Their style, interviews and runway shows have been featured in Forbes, V Magazine, Women’s Wear Daily, Daily Front Row, LA Weekly, and Miami Living Magazine, among others.
Elton has walked the runway for New York Fashion Week and Seoul Fashion Week in 2022 and 2023 for brands such as BESFXXK, MMAM, Maison Nica, Greedilous, and more.Elton is the founder of the Dignity Global Foundation. Dignity Global aims to help women and the LGBT community fight workplace discrimination. By walking the catwalk during New York Fashion Week, it helps further his philanthropic goal of battling workplace discrimination for women and the LGBTQIIA+ communities. “Fashion is the next step in acceptance, and not only for the LGBTQIIA+ community, but also for women and non- binary people," says Elton.
Elton's style, interviews and runway shows have been featured in Forbes, V Magazine, Women’s Wear Daily, Daily Front Row, LA Weekly, and Miami Living Magazine, among others.
With over 10 million followers on Instagram, Elton is sought after by the media as an expert interview on all things fashion, culture, New York style and business, as Elton is also the CEO of the HeadHunter Group Inc.
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MALAN BRETON
Malan Breton is a multitalented fashion designer, singer, actor, costume designer, film director, TV producer, writer, musician, songwriter, producer, and a government-appointed ambassador to Taiwan.
The collection has been worn by, to name only a few, Priyanka Chopra, Fan Bing Bing, Janelle Monae, Saweetie, Kylie Minogue, Billy Porter, Lorde, Little Mix, Vivica A Fox, Paula Abdul, Sean Young, Brenda Song, Yoson An, Meagan Good, Bebe Rexha, George Take, Minnie Driver, Fantasia, Lea Salonga, Hannah Waddingham, Roisin Murphy, and many others.
Breton has been the star of his own show on Bravo TV called "The Malan Show" and guest host in the "Top Model" franchise internationally, "MTV", "Project Runway", and others. He has also been featured in the Iconic fashion film "Zoolander" (2001) starring Ben Stiller, and Owen Wilson.
His designs have been featured on over 200 magazine covers internationally gracing the covers of Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, Glamour, GQ, L'Officiel, The Times, Desnudo, The Sunday Express, OK! And others. Malan Breton Collection has been invited to present collections to The British Royal Family, The Government of republic of china (Taiwan) Austria, Thailand, and Shenzhen. And has been featured in Films, Concerts, and red carpets like the Tonys, the Academy Awards, The Sag Awards, Cannes, BAFTA's, and the Oliviers.
Breton trained with a Savile Row Tailor, one of the worlds foremost couturiers of the 20th century, who trained at Paquin, and Charles James.
Malan Breton devotes much of their efforts to education, he has lectured and mentored students from Pratt, FIT, Parsons, Cedim, Otis, institute Margioni, and was the (at the time) the youngest to ever lecture at Princeton University. His extensive work in philanthropy has focused to aid children, and healthcare globally.
The brand has received global government honours, and over 80 international Awards.
Malan Breton is one of the most diverse brands in fashion. With categories that include fragrance, beauty, accessories, fine jewellery, bridal, handbags, ai, menswear, womenswear, shoes, optical, textiles, housewares, film, swimwear, lingerie, underwear, skate, music, and tv production. Breton is a master of innovation, being the first to introduce a crypto fashion shop, the first to initiate 3D VR into the industry, and is on the forefront of technology.
Malan Breton referred to by British VOGUE as “The most influential designer you have never heard of”.