It’s a good year to be designer Zane Li: In April, he won the Fashion Trust US Ready-to-Wear Award, and five months later, he took home the Karl Lagerfeld Prize at the LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers. (He’s also a 2026 CFDA Awards nominee for Google American Emerging Designer of the Year.)

On Tuesday, he was crowned the winner of the 2026 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. He won a $300,000 grand prize, and will receive business mentorships from industry leaders. The Chongqing-born, New York-based designer is known for his minimalist approach to technical fashion and avant-garde designs.

This year’s two runners-up are Aisling Camps and Emily Dawn Long.…