The finalists for this 12 months’s Drapers Footwear Awards signify the individuals and companies which can be powering this resilient and important sector.
The awards rejoice the people and groups that make manufacturers and retailers tick, each established and budding designers and the retail group members who gasoline footwear companies every single day.
Congratulations and good luck to all of our hard-working finalists.
The awards can be celebrated on 26 June at Grosvenor Home London. E-book now to hitch us.
Finest Footwear Advertising Marketing campaign
- Deichmann: Hold Your Head Whereas They Discover Their Toes
- Finish: Finish x Adidas Spzl “By the Sea”
- Envy Sneakers: Summer time Rodeo Marketing campaign
- Footasylum: NTW x Footasylum launch
- Hey Dude: Sydney Sweeney – Director of Dude
- Hunter: Hunt the Feeling AW24 Model Marketing campaign
- Maddie & Mark’s Sneakers: 2025 Rebrand
- Mallet London: Mallet and Swarovski
- Reef UK: Reef x Heads Above the Waves Blue Well being Marketing campaign
- Stuart Weitzman: How Beautiful to Be a Girl
Finest New Model
Finest On-line Operation of the Yr
Finest Sustainable Initiative of the Yr – firm turnover <£10m
- Dubs: Main Circularity in Children’ Footwear
- Helen Kirkum: Palimpsest Sneaker V2
- Little Inexperienced Radicals: Honest Rubber Waterproof Pure Rain Boots
- Macian: Macian x Cicon: AI-Powered Circularity for Footwear Restore
- The Boot Restore Firm: Guarantee Service in Buyer Type
Finest Sustainable Initiative of the Yr – firm turnover >£10m
- Victoria Sneakers: DREC (Dyeable Recycled Eco Cotton)
- Eager: PFA-free Initiative
- Rock Fall: RF314 Revive
Finest Use of Social Media
- Heavenly Soles buying and selling as Stampede
- Russell & Bromley at The Vogue Awards
- The Boot Restore Firm
- Stroll London x Visualsoft
Footwear Designer of the Yr
- Yasmin Dunnett, Dr Martens
- Bridie Husband, Dr Martens
- Pablo Mancuso, Ettore
- Sam Pearce, New Steadiness
Unbiased Footwear Retailer of the Yr
- Simply Sneakers, Hampshire
- Maddie & Mark’s Sneakers, Edinburgh
- Stampede (Heavenly Soles), Kent
- Twinkle Toes, Sheffield
Children’ Footwear Model of the Yr
Males’s Footwear Model of the Yr
Sponsored by
Ladies’s Footwear Model of the Yr
Sponsored by 
Group of the Yr
- The Boot Restore Firm
- The Harboro Rubber Firm (Dainite)
Scholar Footwear Designer of the Yr
- Ishika Choudhary – College of Northampton
- Molly Kennings, Zak Lawrence, Jamie O’Grady, Harrison Learn and Skye Wicks – De Montfort College
- Damla Stilla Urun and Pranav Sudhir – UAL: London School of Vogue
Retailer Workers Member of the Yr
- Audrey Hatton, Moshulu, Dartmouth
- Sam Blinston, Footasylum, Preston
- Steve Brunton, Clarks, Belfast
- Angela Doherty, Clarks, Belfast
- Mo Elsha, Dune London, Selfridges
- Jodie Gregory, Twinkle Toes, Sheffield
- Sam Lake, Begin-Ceremony, Norwich
- Biral Mitchell, Russell & Bromley, Oxford Road
- Brian Ncube, Sevenstore, Liverpool
- Jennifer Tait, Maddie & Mark’s Sneakers, Edinburgh
Folks and Progress Award
- Sam Gallon, world senior class supervisor, Dr Martens
Footwear Producer of the Yr
The Lifetime Achievement Award and A number of Footwear Retailer of the Yr – Shopper Alternative can be introduced on the evening.
Drapers Footwear Awards is a long-term associate of trade charity Footwear Business Belief (FIT).
Drapers needs to encourage companies within the sector, and past, to donate prizes for a raffle which is drawn on the evening of the awards. These focused on donating ought to contact Gabi O’Sullivan, secretary of FIT: gabi@footwearindustrytrust.org. The charity additionally accepts financial donations by means of its web site.
