Key Dates
Submit your work during the entry period that best suits your schedule. Early preparation helps ensure your couture work is presented at its strongest.
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FOOTWEAR • FORM • MOVEMENT • INNOVATION
Footwear CATEGORIES
Find the Category That Best Represents Your Work
Explore the available subcategories and select the one that best reflects your work, creative direction, purpose, and area of achievement.
WHY ENTER THE FRENCH FOOTWEAR AWARDS?
Turn Footwear Innovation Into International Recognition
Recognition gives exceptional couture a platform beyond the atelier—helping craftsmanship, creative vision, and luxury design excellence be seen by a broader international audience.
International Recognition
Gain recognition from an international panel of fashion and creative industry experts.
Showcase Design Excellence
Highlight the creativity, craftsmanship, and innovation behind your footwear designs.
Strengthen Brand Credibility
Independent recognition helps elevate brand positioning and reinforce excellence within the global footwear industry.
Celebrate Innovation
Recognise footwear that successfully combines aesthetics, comfort, functionality, and market relevance.
Judging Criteria
Judged Through Innovation, Craft & Function
Entries are assessed on creativity, construction, material use, comfort, wearability, functionality, and overall design excellence.
Creativity / Originality / Innovation
The originality of the concept, creative vision, and innovative thinking demonstrated by the work.
Design Aesthetics
The visual appeal, styling, artistic expression, and overall design excellence of the submission.
Craftsmanship / Material Application
The quality of construction, attention to detail, material selection, finishing techniques, and technical execution.
Functionality / Wearability / Commercial Relevance
How successfully the design fulfils its intended purpose while balancing practicality, wearability, and market relevance.
Overall Impact
The lasting impression, influence, and overall excellence demonstrated by the submission.
FEATURED WINNING WORKS
Footwear Recognised on the International Stage
Explore past Footwear winners whose work demonstrates originality, craftsmanship, functionality, and innovative design recognised by the French Fashion Awards.
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Saboteuse
Category
Footwear - Boots
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Solvita Melne
Category
Footwear - Boots
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JOHN KIM-CHEUNG
Category
Footwear - High Heels
PART OF THE ARTE COLLECTION BY IAA
The French Fashion Awards is proudly part of the Arte Collection by IAA, alongside the French Design Awards, iLuxury Awards, Rome Design Awards, and Arte of Beauty Awards. Together, these programs celebrate creativity, craftsmanship, innovation, and excellence across design, luxury, fashion, and beauty worldwide.
YOUR DESIGN. YOUR STEP FORWARD.
YOUR FOOTWEAR DESIGNS DESERVE INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
Exceptional footwear design reflects creativity, craftsmanship, and innovation. The French Footwear Awards celebrates designers and brands whose work continues to influence trends, enhance everyday experiences, and shape the future of footwear.
Submit your work and join an international community of designers and brands driving excellence in footwear design.
Explore Other Categories
Discover More French Fashion Awards Categories
Browse additional category pages across fashion design, branding, product, and industry recognition, and continue exploring the wider French Fashion Awards programme.
