About the event
The Best of Fashion Awards is an international fashion show and competition conceived to recognize talent, technical excellence, and authorial identity within a professional and structured context.
Held during the New York Fashion Week period, the event places designers and models in an environment aligned with global industry standards, with clear technical criteria, transparent evaluation, and responsible curatorial direction.
More than visibility, the project offers an organized professional experience in which creativity and merit are assessed based on objective parameters. Each category has specific definitions, ensuring coherence between aesthetic proposal, technical execution, and positioning within the international market.
The Best of Fashion Awards brings together designers, models, jurors, and industry professionals in a legitimate setting for recognition, where excellence is validated through previously established criteria and institutional governance.
The structure of the event was designed to ensure balance between runway presentation, technical evaluation, and operational organization. The focus lies in building credibility, valuing diversity, and creating a consistent professional track record for participants.
The project is not limited to celebration. It exists to structure opportunities, recognize merit, and position talent within the international fashion landscape with responsibility, ethics, and long-term vision.
AWARDS
Brands brought to international runways
Models coordinated
Looks directed during international fashion weeks
Professionals mobilized across international teams
Gislaine Balzano
Co-Founder & Fashion Director
Gislaine Balzano is an international fashion executive director with active experience across London, Milan, and Paris Fashion Weeks. She has led more than 60 brands to international runways, coordinated over 200 models, and directed more than 700 looks in highly competitive global fashion environments.
As Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Best of Fashion Awards, she brings proven operational leadership, technical precision, and international strategic vision to the project. Her experience in official fashion week calendars strengthens the institutional credibility and execution standards of the event.
She is also the founder of Lady Day Magazine, an international publication focused on fashion, business, and leadership, reinforcing her commitment to positioning talent within structured global platforms.
Rafael dos Santos, MBA
Co-founder, Producer & Creative Director
Rafael is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, events producer and university lecturer with over seven years of experience delivering global awards and fashion events at iconic venues including the Eiffel Tower, Kensington Palace, the Houses of Parliament, and soon the Statue of Liberty. He was the finalist for the ‘UK Master Lecturer of the Year 2025’ and has won an award for his TED Talk ‘What It Takes To Be A Migrant Entrepreneur’. As Marketing Director at JCA London Fashion Academy, founded by Professor Jimmy Choo OBE, Rafael worked closely with one of the most respected names in global fashion. He organised two fashion shows during London Fashion Week and became the first Brazilian to place Indigenous fashion designers on a London Fashion Week catwalk.