Why attend

Exclusive focus Be part of the awards event dedicated to fashion retail, celebrating your unique contributions to the industry.

Community connection Join an event that brings together the fashion retail sector, offering invaluable networking opportunities.

Brand elevation Achieve greater recognition for your brand or company by being shortlisted or winning an award, setting yourself apart from competitors.

Customer trust and sales boost Strengthen customer confidence, increase sales and unlock PR opportunities to enhance your brand’s exposure.

Venue

City Central at the HAC
Chiswell Street
London
EC1Y 4TW

Directions
https://citycentral-london.co.uk/

Accomodation

For discounts at hotels near to the HAC, London for attendees at the event, please contact our booking partner PRIORITY by clicking this link . Guests can also book by phoning PRIORITY on 0845 6123 611 or +44 1473 550 620 and quote event code: EMAP033 24

PRIORITY will always negotiate the best available rate at the time of booking and if there are better rates than those shown on the rate card they will inform the guests prior to booking. They can also make bookings either side of the Wednesday night for those who require it.

The venue is fully accessible, with facilities and support available to ensure comfort and ease of access for all attendees.

Sustainability

Drapers is working with isla to measure the carbon footprint of this event, taking recommendations on how to improve our performance and impact on the environment. We will publish the results of this report after the event.

Our company commitment to sustainability at events can be found below:

Getting to our events
Directions for public transport only are detailed on the event website.

The venue
City Central at the HAC constantly looks at the available opportunities to become a more sustainable venue year on year. Some of these measures include moving away from traditional fuels and increasing their use of more sustainable fuel methods; keeping plastic waste to a minimum and where unavoidable ensuring 100% of it is recycled; and ensuring that on average 90% of their staff travel to the venue by public transport.

The menu
To tie in with its goals as a venue, its caterer, Create Food designs dishes to suit their clients’ needs, while sourcing only the highest-quality seasonal and sustainable ingredients from local suppliers. It is also introducing a fully electric fleet of vehicles to reduce its carbon footprint.

Our suppliers
Drapers chooses its suppliers with a bias towards those partners who take sustainability seriously.

Collateral, signage and exhibition stands
Our event guide programmes and tickets are electronic instead of paper. The signage we use is from Insite Graphics, which holds ISO14001 certification. Event signage is all either recyclable, reusable or used to provide community power when disposed of – none will go to landfill. All the ink is water based and much of our signage is moving to cardboard-based alternatives that are recyclable in generic paper waste collections. For more information click here .

AV supplier
We have chosen our AV supplier based on its positive sustainability policy, which you can read here .

Couriers
We request electric vehicles from our preferred courier, Santis Global. For more information click here .

Transport
Employees are encouraged to take public transport to the event or to travel using our “Uber Green” company account. For more information click here .

Trophy supplier
Gaudio, our trophy supplier, plants a tree for every order made.

We need to work harder
This section of the website is not just dedicated to shouting about how great we are for doing what we should have been doing all along. We need to do better. We would love to hear from you on how you think we could improve. Please email any suggestions to drapers.awards@emap.com or you can take a few moments to complete the post-event survey that will be emailed to you after the awards.