Do you know a high school student in New York State who dreams of a career in fashion or design? Encourage them to enter our footwear design competition, featuring two $10,000 scholarship awards! Applications are open now through May 8.

About the Competition

The New York Historical is hosting a footwear design contest to identify and award promising stewards of New York’s shoe tradition in connection with the opening of the Stuart and Jane Weitzman Shoe Museum in our new Tang Wing for American Democracy this June.

After an initial round of judging by museum curators and educators, ten finalists will present before a panel of special judges: shoe designer Stuart Weitzman; Vanessa Friedman, Chief Fashion Critic for The New York Times; and Valerie Paley, Senior Vice President and Sue Ann Weinberg Director of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at The New York Historical.

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