New for 2026

 

You spoke – we listened.

This year, Drapers Conscious Fashion Awards are transforming into something new.

After listening to your feedback over the years, we are moving away from the traditional sit-down dinner to create a more relaxed, flexible and enjoyable experience.

Expect an evening of entertainment, networking and celebration…with more freedom to move, mingle and connect. Whether you want to stay and soak up the atmosphere or head off early to catch the train, the choice is yours. We are keeping the energy high, the format informal, and the finish time earlier…all so you can enjoy the night your way.

18:00 – 19:00
Kick off the evening with welcome drinks, delicious canapés and mingling

19:00 – 19:30
Get ready to be entertained — enjoy live on-stage moments that set the tone for a night of celebration.

19:30 – 20:30
Applaud the trailblazers! Join us for an energising awards presentation honouring the innovators leading the way in conscious fashion.

20:30 – 22:30
Celebrate in style with great food, flowing drinks and feel-good vibes as the party continues into the evening.

Dress code: anything goes: whatever you’re comfortable in

Why enter

 

Elevate your brand
Put your brand in the spotlight, showcasing your commitment to ethical and sustainable fashion. Gain recognition for your efforts in creating positive change within the industry and stand out as a leader in conscious fashion.

Enhance credibility
Winning or even being shortlisted for these awards enhances your credibility. Consumers today are increasingly aware of the impact of their purchasing decisions. By aligning your brand with us, signal to customers that you prioritize sustainability, ethics, and social responsibility.

Inspire consumer trust
Build trust with your customers by demonstrating that your brand adheres to high standards of environmental and social governance. Winning an award would be a testament to your dedication to fair labour practices, eco-friendly materials, and transparent supply chains. Show your audience that they can feel good about supporting your business.

Connect with like-minded brands
Join a community of like-minded retailers who share your passion for sustainable fashion. The award process offers unique networking opportunities with other industry leaders, fostering collaborations and partnerships that can drive your brand forward.

Gain valuable exposure
Receive extensive media coverage and promotional opportunities through our award platform. Benefit from our robust marketing campaigns that highlight award nominees and winners across various channels, including social media, press releases, and industry publications.

Showcase your innovation
Have a unique approach to sustainability? This is your chance to shine! Entering these awards allows you to present your innovative practices and creative solutions to our jury of industry experts. Whether it's groundbreaking fabric technology, a revolutionary recycling program, or a zero-waste initiative, let your innovations be recognized and celebrated.

Drive industry change
Be a catalyst for change within the fashion industry. By participating, you help set new standards and inspire other brands to adopt more sustainable practices. Your leadership can drive a broader movement towards a more ethical and environmentally friendly industry.

Celebrate your achievements
Take pride in your accomplishments and celebrate your hard work. Entering the Drapers Conscious Fashion Awards is a moment to acknowledge the strides you’ve made towards creating a better world through fashion. Share your journey and achievements with your team, stakeholders, and customers.

Enter Now

 

To register and start your entry, please use the button below. If you have previously started, please login on the right-hand side.

We would advise completing your entry in Word or a similar programme first before copying and pasting into the entry form.

If you need help with your entry or require any clarification, please contact Laura Glenister on  or email laura.glenister@emap.com.

The entry deadline is 17 October 2025. The winners will be announced at Hilton London Bankside on 11 March 2026.

Categories 

Open to any fashion retailer, brand or any charitable organisation working in the fashion industry in the UK and/or Ireland.

This award will recognise the most effective initiative by a fashion brand, retailer or charity working in the fashion space over the past 12 months that uses sustainable and/or ethical practices to benefit the wider community.

For example, the initiative could donate the proceeds of a resale collection to charity or could be a range made from more sustainable materials, being sold to fund community projects.

Judges will be looking for evidence that this initiative has achieved its aims of raising money, awareness and/or support for the chosen cause, while using more sustainable practices.

Qualifying period

1 October 2024-30 September 2025
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  • Does the initiative have clear aims and objectives?
  • Has it achieved its aims of raising money, awareness and/or support for the chosen cause?
  • Has the business used sustainable practices to benefit the wider community?
  • Has it had demonstrable impact? How is success measured?

Open to any fashion brand or retailer that operates in the UK and/or Ireland.

This award recognises a traditional fashion retailer or brand that has made significant progress towards adopting a more circular business model over the past 12 months.

Judges will be looking for evidence that the company has eschewed a linear production model – which starts with new or virgin material and often ends with clothing being discarded in landfill – in favour of a more circular approach aimed at minimising waste and making the most of existing resources. They will also look at how the business is taking responsibility for end of life of products.

Qualifying period

1 October 2024-30 September 2025
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  • Does the initiative have clear aims and objectives?
  • Has the business made progress towards adopting a more circular business model?
  • Has it had demonstrable impact? How is success measured?
  • How is the business addressing end of life of products?

Conscious Collection of the Year 

Open to retailers, designers and brands, this award recognises a product or collection of products that incorporate sustainability in their design and/or production – for example, a range with sustainably focused production, or a product that uses recycled materials. As well as evidence of sustainable credentials, judges will examine the commercial viability of each submission.

Qualifying period

1 October 2024-30 September 2025
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  • How does the product/collection demonstrably incorporate sustainability?
  • Does it address a sustainability challenge facing the industry?
  • Is it commercially viable? How is success measured?
  • What was the customers’ reaction?

Open to any fashion business that operates in the UK and/or Ireland.

This award recognises the efforts that fashion businesses have made to empower the people within their organisation – from head office all the way through the supply chain.

This could include efforts such as cultivating an inclusive environment that makes your workforce feel welcome and heard or improving equity and conditions in factories.

The empowering people strategies/initiatives can include those impacting head office teams, store teams, suppliers and people in your business’s supply chain.

Judges will be looking for strategies and initiatives that demonstrate tangible results.

Qualifying period         

1 October 2024-30 September 2025
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    • Does the strategy have measurable aims and objectives?
    • How did it improve the well-being and working environment of people within the business and/or supply chain?
    • How was this achieved?
    • How will equity continue to be improved in future?

    Open to fashion rental, resale and recycling companies operating in the UK and/or Ireland.

    This award recognises the emerging breed of fashion companies that are built on circular values, such as rental or buying and selling second hand.

    Judges will be looking for evidence of growth over the past 12 months, in terms of both brand awareness and financially, as well as new collaborations and innovations.

    Qualifying period               

    1 October 2024-30 September 2025
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          • Have you provided evidence of initial financial success, which could include projected figures and details of outside investment?
          • Is your business model built on circular values?
          • Does it meet a clear need in the market?
          • Is it scalable?
          • Do you have a clear strategy for growth?
          • Are your proposition and marketing clearly differentiated from competitors’?

          Open to any fashion brand or retailer that operates in the UK and/or Ireland.

          This award recognises the fashion retailer, direct-to-consumer brand or marketplace that has sustainable values at its core.

          Judges will be looking for a clear sustainability and ESG (environmental, social and governance) strategy that incorporates relevant and achievable objectives, and evidence that these objectives have been met in part or in full. Please include as much detail as possible about specific initiatives, innovations or collaborations that enabled the business to deliver the strategy.

          Where relevant, businesses should also highlight how they have worked with their suppliers to improve working conditions and/or reduce the amount of waste in the supply chain over the past 12 months. Judges will be looking for evidence of constructive engagement with suppliers.

          Please note that this award is open to retailers, brands and marketplaces that have sustainable values at their core. More traditional or long-established fashion businesses that wish to highlight their recent efforts to be sustainable can enter the Positive Change Award.

          Qualifying period

          1 October 2024-30 September 2025
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          • Does the business have clear aims and objectives for reducing its impact on the environment and people within its supply chain?
          • Has the business outlined its strategy and referenced specific initiatives/innovations/collaborations?
          • Has the business made progress towards its ESG goals? How is success measured?
          • Has the business worked with suppliers to improve working conditions and/or reduce waste in the supply chain?

           

          Open to textile manufacturers, designers and brands, this award recognises innovative, more sustainable alternatives to traditional textiles – for example, textiles made from repurposed formerly discarded byproducts, or lab-grown cultures.

          As well as evidence of sustainability credentials, judges will examine the commercial viability of each submission. The innovation must have been developed within the past three years.

          Qualifying period

          30 September 2002-30 September 2025
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          • Does the innovation have clear aims and objectives?
          • Does your innovation solve a sustainability or production problem facing the fashion industry?
          • Does it meet a clear need in the market?
          • Is it scalable?
          • Has it had demonstrable impact? How is success measured?

          Open to any fashion brand or retailer that operates in the UK and/or Ireland.

          This award recognises the most innovative work a fashion business has undertaken within its supply chain over the past 12 months.

          This could include projects aimed specifically at reducing your supplier base’s carbon footprint, implementing a more sustainable sourcing strategy or taking steps to reduce waste in the supply chain.

          Judges will be looking for a clear strategy that incorporates relevant and achievable objectives, and evidence that these objectives have been met in part or in full. This category must be entered by a retailer or brand but can include reference to suppliers.

          Please note that if you are a technology/software supplier, you must ask a partner retailer/brand to enter the project on your behalf.

          Qualifying period

          1 October 2024-30 September 2025
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          • Does the strategy have clear aims and objectives?
          • Has the business made progress against its supply chain objectives?
          • Has it had demonstrable impact? How is success measured?

           Open to any fashion brand or retailer that operates in the UK and/or Ireland.

          This award will recognise the most effective marketing campaign run by or in collaboration with a fashion brand or retailer that tells the story of the brand’s sustainability journey in a creative and credible way.

          Judges will be looking for evidence that a campaign has cut through and achieved its aims of engaging with new and/or existing customers, as well as raising awareness of the importance of sustainability in fashion.

          Qualifying period

          1 October 2024-30 September 2025
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          • Does the campaign have clear aims and objectives?
          • Is this a strong, creative campaign that fits with your brand and target customers?
          • Did it succeed and drive engagement and/or awareness and/or sales?
          • Is it a market-leading campaign? Does it offer something new?

           

          Open to any fashion brand or retailer that operates in the UK and/or Ireland.

          At Drapers we recognise that many of the more established fashion brands and retailers were not necessarily built on sustainable values, but they are still making serious efforts to improve their operations.

          The Positive Change Award recognises the established brand or retailer that has made the most progress towards its sustainability goals over the past 12 months. Judges will be looking for a clear sustainability strategy that incorporates relevant and achievable objectives, and evidence that these objectives have been met in part or in full. Please include as much detail as possible about specific initiatives, innovations or collaborations that enabled the business to deliver the strategy.

          Where relevant, companies should also highlight how they have worked with their suppliers to improve working conditions and/or reduce the amount of waste in the supply chain over the past 12 months. Judges will be looking for evidence of constructive engagement with suppliers.

          Qualifying period

          1 October 2024-30 September 2025
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          • Does the business have clear sustainability aims and objectives?
          • Has the business outlined its sustainability strategy and referenced specific initiatives/innovations/collaborations?
          • Has the business made progress towards its sustainability goals?
          • How is success measured?

          Open to any fashion brand, retailer or manufacturer that operates in the UK and/or Ireland.

          This award recognises the role technological innovation plays in reducing waste and improving traceability within fashion retail.

          It is open to retailers, brands and manufacturers that can show how use of technology over the past 12 months has helped to achieve greater sustainability within their business. For example, you may have started using artificial intelligence to better forecast customer demand; introduced new 3D-design software or fit technology; used new technology to reduce waste at manufacturing stage; or used technology that has improved an item’s traceability.

          Please note that if you are a technology/software supplier, you must ask a partner retailer/brand to enter the project on your behalf.

          Qualifying period

          1 October 2024-30 September 2025
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          • Does the initiative have clear aims and objectives?
          • Does your technology solve a sustainability problem facing the fashion industry?
          • Does it meet a clear need in the market? Is it scalable?
          • Has it had demonstrable impact?
          • How is success measured?

          Open to new fashion brands and retailers that have been trading in the UK and/or Ireland for between one and three years.

          The One to Watch award recognises new and emerging fashion brands or retailers that are built on driving positive change within the industry.

          We are looking for evidence that a start-up has a conscious fashion ethos at its heart and is also commercially viable – entrants must be able to demonstrate early signs of financial success, and wholesale brands should include a list of stockists.

          Qualifying period     

          1 October 2024-30 September 2025
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          • Does the brand have clear sustainable and ethical aims and objectives?
          • Has the business outlined its sustainability strategy and referenced specific initiatives/innovations/collaborations?
          • Has the brand made progress towards its sustainability goals?
          • How is success measured?
          • Does it meet a clear need in the market?
          • Is it scalable?
          • Do you have a clear strategy for growth?

          This award recognises an individual who has led a cultural shift within their business and the wider fashion industry in the past 12 months. The Change Maker of the Year will have gone above and beyond the normal requirements of the day job to bring about positive change.

          You can nominate yourself or a colleague. Eligible candidates must work for or own a fashion brand, retailer or supplier, a higher education institution or an association that is based in the UK or Ireland.

          Please provide clear examples of at least one initiative led by this individual over the past 12 months that has transformed the way the business and/or industry thinks and operates for the better. Include evidence of the positive impact/outcomes.

          The Change Maker of the Year 2025 will be chosen by the Drapers editorial team.

          Qualifying period

          1 October 2024 - 30 September 2025
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          FAQs

           

          Hopefully you'll find an answer to your question below. If not, please contact Laura Glenister on or email laura.glenister@emap.com

          To view the criteria, create your account, or login with your email and password used to create your account if you have already done so. Select ‘Enter Now’ against the category you wish to view where the criteria will be displayed. If you wish to start your entry at this point any information you add will be autosaved and you can login to complete the rest of the entry at any time.

          Enter the email address and password that you used when you first started your entry on the log in page, you will then be taken through to your dashboard and will be able to continue your entry.

          You can enter another category by selecting the category you wish to enter from the ‘Categories’ section.

          Please contact Laura Glenister on or email laura.glenister@emap.com and they will be able to help you with your entry.