The Global Footwear Awards acknowledge the best in the shoe industry, addressing creativity, innovation, sustainability, and social impact. GFA provides an international platform for professionals and students to share their footwear design and their innovative solutions to sustainability and social impact, from concept to manufacturing and beyond.
The program offers global visibility to designers, providing greater opportunities in the footwear industry for emerging designers to businesses and corporations.
The moment we’ve all been waiting for is here! The Global Footwear Awards 2025 winners have officially been announced, and this year’s edition brings together some of the most exciting, thoughtful, and forward-looking footwear designs we’ve seen to date. With over 150 submissions from 35 countries, the 2025 awards capture a global industry in motion, […]
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Our esteemed jury panel consists of leading industry professionals whose talents and contributions to the footwear community are aspirational. They are leading professionals coming from different disciplines within the footwear industry, including major publications, retailers, institutions and influencers, providing an overall industry perspective towards the selection of the best design.
Winning the Global Footwear Awards indicate that we are walking the right path and will continue to work hard in this way.
Dempsey Pauwels - Emerging Designer of the YearIt is such an honor to receive this award. I am very grateful to the jury and to the Global Footwear awards for recognizing my work on this international landscape. This design is very significant to me, especially because the realization of the concept was very complicated given the sphere shape of the heel, however I was determined to bring it to fruition.
Tori Soudan - Winner 2021
