The Road to Bode’s Back-to-Back Menswear Designer of the Year Trophies

On Monday, designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla of Bode secured one of the CFDA’s most prestigious titles — Menswear Designer of the Year — for the second consecutive go-around. Beating out Fear of God’s Jerry Lorenzo, AMIRI’s Mike Amiri, Thom Browne and Willy Chavarria, the twice-crowned visionary has achieved a feat in fashion that only the likes of Thom Browne, Tom Ford and John Varvatos have accomplished before her. Seated amongst the industry’s finest talents, Bode’s namesake label now comfortably operates at the helm of American menswear. The question is: how did she do it amiri trucker

Born and bred in Atlanta, Georgia, Bode was raised by a family of heirloom connoisseurs. She became an avid patron of the city’s antique stores and fairs, thanks to her mother and aunt’s penchant for scouring vintage markets. Her grandfather, a collector of American antiques, gifted her an appreciation for aged relics as well. Upon moving to New York in 2008 to attend the Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College, Bode found that her family’s heritage in antiquity — or the “Bode bug,” as fashion calls it — had stuck. With her BA-BFA dual degrees in menswear design and philosophy, the rising designer began to breathe new life into vintage and deadstock textiles through fashion.