Latest News Briefs – Page 181
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Gucci has lost the legal battle against Silvano Lattanzi over...
Gucci has lost the legal battle against Silvano Lattanzi over the horsebit trademark that it has long been using on its leather goods. In 2011, Italy's financial authority confiscated a number of horsebit-bearing loafers that were being sold by a retailer in Tuscany under the Silvano Lattanzi brand name. In ...
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The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) has addressed a...
The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) has addressed a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to request that Amazon's marketplaces for France and India be added to an annual list of “Notorious Markets” that abet counterfeiting and piracy. Last year, the trade group made the same request regarding ...
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Skechers says it has won a protracted trademark dispute with...
Skechers says it has won a protracted trademark dispute with Converse. An International Trade Commission judge found that Skechers' Twinkle Toes and its BOBS designs did not violate the trademark rights of Converse's Chuck Taylor midsole. According to Skechers, the judge also ruled that Converse's trademark had not acquired any ...
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Pentland Brands is creating an entirely new brand of women's...
Pentland Brands is creating an entirely new brand of women's footwear, called 52 Degrees LDN. A team of female designers at Pentland's headquarters in London are striving to produce “beautiful shoes, made for real life.” The shoes are crafted by hand with premium leather and suede, have sneaker-like foam linings ...
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In partnership with Disney, Aldo has released a limited-edition capsule...
In partnership with Disney, Aldo has released a limited-edition capsule collection to mark the 90th anniversary of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Comprising men's shoes, women's shoes and women's accessories, the collection is divided into two categories: “for the nostalgic” and “for the modern.” The first takes inspiration from the 1990s, ...
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Brax, a German brand of clothing, has granted a license...
Brax, a German brand of clothing, has granted a license for socks to Atair, a German-based manufacturer of socks, and a license for shoes to Profectus Brand Construction in Bad Oeynhausen. The first shoe collection for the 2020 autumn/winter season will include 20 models for women and 15 for men. ...
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Högl, the Austrian shoe brand, recently invited seven fashion bloggers...
Högl, the Austrian shoe brand, recently invited seven fashion bloggers to Vienna. Each chose a model from the new autumn/winter shoe collection at Högl's flagship store in the Austrian capital, and Högl representatives then accompanied them on a trip through the city, showing them various settings for photo shoots with ...
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Lidl, the German food discounter, has launched its first sneaker...
Lidl, the German food discounter, has launched its first sneaker model, limited to 400 pairs. The sneaker – designed in blue, yellow and red, the corporate colors of Lidl – was not available for purchase at Lidl's stores. Instead, Lidl launched a marketing stunt to boost awareness of the sneaker. ...
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Moda Made in Italy, the Italian shoe show, has announced...
Moda Made in Italy, the Italian shoe show, has announced the show's dates for 2020. The shoe show organized in Munich twice a year by Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry association, is now scheduled for March 15-16 and Oct. 4-6, 2020. In 2019, the show took place from Sept. 29 ...
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Expo Riva Schuh is scheduled for Jan. 11-14 in the...
Expo Riva Schuh is scheduled for Jan. 11-14 in the Italian town of Riva del Garda. The world's leading shoe fair for the volume market will continue to be held in conjunction with the Gardabags show, purposely created for handbags and other leathergoods and accessories. In the forthcoming edition, its ...
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The executive committee of the International Union of Shoe Industry...
The executive committee of the International Union of Shoe Industry Technicians (UITIC) has selected the China Leather Industry Association (CLIA) to organize its 21st Congress, to be held in China in 2021. The date and location have not yet been announced. First launched in 1972, the convention has been held ...
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HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, has reported...
HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, has reported on the Fashion World Tokyo Autumn show of Oct. 2-4, where it was exhibiting for the fourth time. A total of 1,052 organizations from 35 countries exhibited at the show. According to its organizers, 20,239 people visited the show, not ...
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The 97th edition of Lineapelle, which ran in Milan on...
The 97th edition of Lineapelle, which ran in Milan on Oct. 2-4, registered a total of 19,000 visitors representing around 10,500 companies from 107 countries. The number of European buyers fell slightly, due to declining numbers especially from Spain, Portugal, the U.K. and Germany. This decline was partially offset by ...
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ANWR recorded 450 visitors from 200 companies at its ANWR...
ANWR recorded 450 visitors from 200 companies at its ANWR Order Fashion Days, held on Sept. 24-25 in Mainhausen, Germany, near Frankfurt. Last year, a total of 514 people from 214 companies visited the show, down from 560 visitors and 230 companies in 2017. This year, 230 brands presented new ...
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Wortmann, the German shoe producer that owns the Tamaris, Jana,...
Wortmann, the German shoe producer that owns the Tamaris, Jana, Caprice, S.Oliver, Be Natural and Marco Tozzi brands of footwear, will no longer exhibit at the Galley Shoes fair, the three-day trade show held at the Areal Böhler in Düsseldorf. The company has decided to focus on the Micam show ...
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Sneakertopia, the first pop-up museum to honor the pioneers and...
Sneakertopia, the first pop-up museum to honor the pioneers and patrons of sneakers, will open to the public for a limited event on Oct. 25 in Los Angeles. The museum invites visitors to step into sneaker culture in a pop-art environment of sports, music, film, fashion, humor and parody. Various ...
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Vans, a brand of VF Corp., has announced the launch...
Vans, a brand of VF Corp., has announced the launch of Vans Checkerboard Day, an annual event to rally communities around the idea of fueling creativity. On the inaugural Vans Checkerboard Day, which will be held on Nov. 21, Vans will donate $1 million from global sales at the brand's ...
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Ecco has opened a high-tech leather-cutting plant next to its...
Ecco has opened a high-tech leather-cutting plant next to its tannery in Xiamen, China. The company says it wants to establish the facility as a center of excellence for leather cutting. To minimize the environmental footprint, it is equipped with photovoltaic solar panels on the rooftop. The renewable energy makes ...
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Pavers Shoes has donated more than 1,000 pairs of children's...
Pavers Shoes has donated more than 1,000 pairs of children's shoes to Shoe Aid, a charity that collects and redistributes unused and unwanted footwear across the U.K. and other countries in an effort to reduce waste and shoe poverty. Pavers' acquisition of Jones Bootmaker in 2018 brought with it a ...
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Gucci claims that it has become a completely carbon-neutral company,...
Gucci claims that it has become a completely carbon-neutral company, in its own operations as well as across its entire supply chain. In addition to ensuring that its in-house manufacturing operations are carbon neutral, the luxury house is offsetting “all greenhouse gasses produced by its third party materials suppliers and ...
