Drapers - Last chance to enter Drapers Footwear Awards 2025


Drapers Footwear Awards have a good time the perfect of the very important footwear sector.

Be a part of your friends at our glittering ceremony at Grosvenor Home, London on 26 June.

Entries are free and there are 15 classes – and alternatives – to win. Entries shut at midnight on 24 February.

Our impartial panel of judges includes the perfect of the footwear sector and consists of Colin Temple, president of Schuh; Daniel Rubin, founder and chairman of Dune Group; Trisha Baker, head of shopping for at New Look and lots of extra. Meet this 12 months’s judges right here.

For 2025 we’re celebrating two new classes: the Individuals and Progress Award recognises the people and groups who’re driving cultural change inside the footwear sector, whether or not at their head workplace, shops or provide chain.

Footwear Producer of the Yr celebrates the craft of the footwear business, and will likely be awarded to a enterprise that appears after its workforce and has sturdy relationships with its retailers.

We’ve offered the Lifetime Achievement Award to business luminaries corresponding to Professor Jimmy Choo, Sir John Timpson, co-founder of Reebok, Joe Foster and chair of Pavers Sneakers, Stuart Paver.

There is a chance for everybody to shine. Retailer Workers Member of the Yr applauds stand-out retail workforce members, whereas Staff of the Yr celebrates the teams fuelling outcomes.

Creatives ought to enter Footwear Designer of the Yr, whereas we have a good time the following technology of expertise with Scholar Footwear Designer of the Yr.