Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain, will be honored with the 2025 Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion. The award will be presented at the Couture Council’s annual luncheon on September 3, 2025, at the David H. Koch Theater in New York. The event benefits The Museum at FIT (MFIT), New York’s only museum dedicated to fashion. It also marks the beginning of New York Fashion Week.

Jane DeFlorio, corporate director at Vivid Seats Inc., and Stephanie Loeffler, philanthropist and board member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, will co-chair the luncheon.