by Felicities PR
MilliOnAir | Cordwainers Awards
Celebrating the next generation
of footwear design
Celebrating the next generation of footwear design
Deep in the heart of the City of London The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers’ celebrated the National Footwear Student of the Year Competition 2019 in early June. For the second year, the MilliOnAir team attended the awards evening to meet the top 15 shoe design students graduating from UK universities.
The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers is a traditional City of London livery company. A livery company is a trade guild created in medieval times to support its workers and we still have 110 livery companies in London to support a wide range of professions, crafts and trades. Cordwainers were workers in fine leather and the Company gets its name from "cordwain" (cordovan), the white leather produced from goatskin in Cordova, Spain. The Cordwainers' Company has strong links with footwear and leather education in the three British universities than run footwear design courses, as well as with the footwear industry and trade.