The Shoe of the Year honor is the most coveted FN Achievement Award of them all — and Pharrell Williams became the newest member of this exclusive club on Wednesday night in New York.

Pharrell and Adidas took home the trophy for the Virginia Adistar Jellyfish, the designer’s biggest and boldest sneaker ever.

On the FNAA red carpet, Pharrell showed love for past recipients of the same honor, Virgil Abloh and Rihanna .

“Virgil is great, he is one of the greats. He will always be known as one of the greats,” Williams said of the late designer.

Abloh won Shoe of the Year in 2017 for his version of the Air Jordan 1 from his collection with Nike known as “The Ten,” and again posthumously in 2022 for his Louis Vuitton x Nike Air Force 1. In addition to founding Off-White, Abloh se

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