EXHIBIT 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each director and/or officer of DSW Inc. (the “Corporation”) whose signature appears below hereby appoints Douglas J. Probst and William L. Jordan 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 January 31, 2009, 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 11th day of March, 2009.

Signature		Title
/s/ Jay L. Schottenstein		Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Jay L. Schottenstein		(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Douglas J. Probst		Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Douglas J. Probst		(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
/s/ Elaine J. Eisenman		Director
Elaine J. Eisenman
/s/ Carolee Friedlander		Director
Carolee Friedlander
/s/ Joanna T. Lau		Director
Joanna T. Lau
/s/ Roger S. Markfield		Director
Roger S. Markfield
/s/ Philip B. Miller		Director
Philip B. Miller
/s/ James D. Robbins		Director
James D. Robbins
/s/ Harvey L. Sonnenberg		Director
Harvey L. Sonnenberg
/s/ Allan J. Tanenbaum		Director
Allan J. Tanenbaum
/s/ Heywood Wilansky		Director
Heywood Wilansky