Maria Cornejo, the Chilean American designer, got the call in June. She was at home in her sort of messy little white house in Brooklyn, she said, with her 18-year-old cat, Ziggy, and some very large ficus plants.
Steven Kolb, the chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, was on the line, telling her she was getting the lifetime achievement award from the CFDA. Given that, in the 25 years since she had opened her first store, she had never even been nominated for a CFDA award, not to mention won one — not women’s wear designer of the year or accessories designer of the year or
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