Fashion trends may come and go, but, as the 16th annual DVF Awards proved at the Venice Film Festival 2025 last week, making a positive change in the world is always in style.
Diane von Furstenberg and The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation founded the annual honors in 2010 to recognize and amplify women who work to improve the lives of other women worldwide, showing strength, courage, and leadership. The awards this year, held on August 28 in the midst of the Venice Film Festival went to five women doing just that. Hanin Ahmed, Christy Turlington Burns, Fany Kuiro Castro, Kim Kardashian, and Giulia Minoli collected this year’s honors, as well as a grant for their respective non-profit organizations, in recognition of their work to support and uplift others.
Von Furstenberg herself was on hand for the festivities, of course, and a well-heeled crowd of invitees gathered to celebrate the winners’ impact-making work, which you can learn more about on the awards’ website.
Below, take a look inside the 16th annual 2025 DVF Awards in Venice.
