Nina Christen accepted the Designer of the Year Award from June Ambrose at the 2025 Footwear News Achievement Awards in New York City on Wednesday.

Ambrose said in her remarks, “You know in fashion we love to say a great shoe can change your posture. But a brilliant shoe designer can change your entire point of view. And tonight I have the absolute pleasure of celebrating someone whose work has been changing mine for years.”

She continued to laud the work of Christen, who has her own self-named label and is the design director of shoes at Dior : “Nina Christen is a designer whose fingerprint — well, sketches — are all over some of the most iconic footwear moments in modern fashion. She has this rare ability to move seamlessly from serious and sculptural to wildly clever and del

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