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						EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each director and/or officer of Designer Brands Inc. (the "Corporation") whose signature appears below hereby appoints each of Jared Poff, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, Lisa Yerrace, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, and Mark Haley, Senior Vice President and Controller, as the undersigned's attorney or any of them individually as the undersigned's attorney, to sign, in the undersigned's name and behalf and in any and all capacities stated below, and to cause to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), the Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K (the "Form 10-K") for the fiscal year ended February 1, 2025, and likewise to sign and file with the Commission any and all amendments to the Form 10-K, and the Corporation hereby appoints such persons as its attorneys-in-fact and each of them as its attorney-in-fact with like authority to sign and file the Form 10-K and any amendments thereto granting to each attorney-in-fact full power of substitution and revocation, and hereby ratifying all that any such attorney-in-fact or the undersigned's substitute may do by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands effective as of the 24th day of March 2025.

Signature						Title

/s/ Jay L. Schottenstein						Executive Chairman of the Board and Director
Jay L. Schottenstein

/s/ Douglas M. Howe						Chief Executive Officer and Director
Douglas M. Howe						(Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jared A. Poff						Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer
Jared A. Poff						(Principal Financial Officer)

/s/ Mark A. Haley						Senior Vice President and Controller
Mark A. Haley						(Principal Accounting Officer)

/s/ John W. Atkinson						Director
John W. Atkinson

/s/ Peter S. Cobb						Director
Peter S. Cobb

/s/ Elaine J. Eisenman						Director
Elaine J. Eisenman

/s/ Joanna T. Lau						Director
Joanna T. Lau

/s/ Richard A. Paul						Director
Rich A. Paul

/s/ Joseph A. Schottenstein						Director
Joseph A. Schottenstein

/s/ Harvey L. Sonnenberg						Director
Harvey L. Sonnenberg

/s/ Allan J. Tanenbaum						Director
Allan J. Tanenbaum



/s/ Joanne Zaiac						Director
Joanne Zaiac