{"id":66241,"date":"2022-10-14T20:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=66241"},"modified":"2022-10-14T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:26:09","slug":"christian-siriano-honored-fgi-night-of-stars-gala","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/christian-siriano-honored-fgi-night-of-stars-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Siriano Is Honored at FGI\u2019s Night of Stars Gala: &#8216;It Feels Really Great&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66243\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66243 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1433237569.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariska Hargitay and Christian Siriano attend the FGI 38th Annual Night of Stars Gala at Cipriani South Street on October 13, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Sean Zanni\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fashion Group International (FGI) hosted their annual Night of Stars Gala on Thursday evening, celebrating the best and the brightest of the fashion industry. Christian Siriano was honored with the Fashion Star Award, presented by <em>Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/em> actress Mariska Hargitay, and we caught up with the designer on the red carpet ahead of his big night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fashion you never know where you stand some days,\u201d Siriano told <em>GRAZIA USA<\/em>. \u201cYou hope that you\u2019re doing the right things, and when people recognize it, it feels really great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The designer arrived hand-in-hand with the <em>Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/em> star, who wore a tailored royal blue suit set with a jacket that opened to reveal her matching bra-top. \u201cLet me tell you who works hard \u2014 Mariska,\u201d said Siriano. \u201cShe films every single day. It\u2019s wild, so it\u2019s so nice that she could even do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their gala appearance together comes hot off the heels of Hargitay\u2019s bombshell ensemble at the 2022 Emmy Awards, created by Siriano. \u201cShe had such a moment in that dress,\u201d said the designer. \u201cIt was so glamorous, and she looked incredible. We just had a blast!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66244\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66244 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1433279634.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1920\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Siriano and Mariska Hargitay attend the 2022 FGI Night of Stars Gala at Casa Cipriani on October 13, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Siriano remains the definition of &#8220;booked and busy.&#8221; He dressed seven other women at the Emmys, including Melanie Lynskey, Jean Smart, Rosario Dawson, Molly Shannon, Laura Linney, Robin Thede, and Vanessa Bayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, who manages to do that?\u201d Hargitay said in her presentation speech. \u201cIt felt like this beautiful, luminous, welcoming little club, that I was so incredibly proud to be a part of. So, thank you Christian for making my night. Thank you for making me feel so beautiful, truly.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66242\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66242 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1423201909.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1920\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariska Hargitay attends the 74th Primetime Emmys at Microsoft Theater on September 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Momodu Mansaray\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hargitay hailed his work towards a more inclusive fashion industry, his mask-making efforts in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the SCAD Museum of Art&#8217;s solo retrospective exhibition on the designer.<\/p>\n<p>Siriano made his entry into the industry after winning <em>Project Runway<\/em> in 2007. One of the show&#8217;s longtime judges was designer Michael Kors, who was honored at the gala with the Superstar Award. &#8220;It\u2019s really nice to be given an award alongside him, it feels really great,&#8221; Siriano said.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that he managed to dress eight woman at the Emmys just four days after presenting his collection during NYFW, shows that the work never stops for Siriano. &#8220;It was horrible! But amazing! You never get to just have a beat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He did treat his staff after the busy days with a trip to the movies. &#8220;The day afterward, we went to a movie, <em>Bullet Train<\/em> with Brad Pitt, and just chilled. I took like half my office; it was so fun. We just wanted to like escape \u2014 you know, you need it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Until another red carpet season and fashion week nears, Siriano is focused on his new <a href=\"https:\/\/christiansiriano.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">store in Connecticut<\/a>.\u00a0 &#8220;We really want to focus on bringing our customer back, and figuring her out, and what she wants. So that\u2019s been our journey,&#8221; he shared. &#8220;I love going to my store and being with people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the night, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/uoma-beauty-founder-sharon-chuter-game-changers\/\">Uoma Beauty founder Sharon Chuter<\/a> was granted the Beauty Award, Prabal Gurung received the Humanitarian Award and Dionne Warwick was given the Trailblazer Award. LoveShackFancy founder Rebecca Hessel Cohen was honored with the Retail Award, and Elvis Presley was honored post-mortem with the Fashion Oracle Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31863,"featured_media":66243,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,17,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mariska Hargitay Presents Christian Siriano with Award at FGI Gala<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We caught up with designer Christian Siriano ahead of the FGI Night of Stars ceremony, where he was granted the Fashion Star award\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/christian-siriano-honored-fgi-night-of-stars-gala\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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