Latest News Briefs – Page 198
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Aquazzura is planning to expand the brand's product offering with...
Aquazzura is planning to expand the brand's product offering with the launch of a new line of accessories for women, as well as a special accessories and footwear collection for men. The launch is scheduled to take place over the next 18 to 24 months. Aquazzurra recently made its online ...
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Ipanema, a brand of Grendene, is partnering with Anitta on...
Ipanema, a brand of Grendene, is partnering with Anitta on a new collection of sandals. The collaboration with the Brazilian singer coincides with the release of her first international album, entitled “Kisses.”
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Le Coq Sportif and Opium, a dedicated sneaker shop in...
Le Coq Sportif and Opium, a dedicated sneaker shop in the dead center of Paris, have collaborated on a limited-edition sneaker. Based on the Freestyle, a mountain-bike shoe from Le Coq's back catalogue, the LCS R1000 was designed in part by – and exists in tribute to – the three ...
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Deichmann has chosen the British pop singer Rita Ora to...
Deichmann has chosen the British pop singer Rita Ora to present its collection of shoes for the autumn/winter 2019/20 season. Deichmann's design team created the 35 pieces of the “Rita Ora for Deichmann” collection, which will be available in select stores and web shops and in some European countries from ...
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Deichmann placed third in this year's contest for the German...
Deichmann placed third in this year's contest for the German Online Award in the Fashion & Accessories category. Bonprix, a retailer of clothing, shoes and other accessories owned by the Otto Group, won the first prize, followed by Ernsting's Family, a retailer of clothes and accessories for children and women ...
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About 300 delegates – one-third of them from outside Italy...
About 300 delegates – one-third of them from outside Italy – attended the World Footwear Congress in Naples' historic Royal Palace from April 3 to 5. Thomas Bata Jr., chief vision officer of the Bata Group, was among the foreign participants, who came also from other parts of Europe, China, ...
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The organizers of the Gallery Shoes trade show in Düsseldorf...
The organizers of the Gallery Shoes trade show in Düsseldorf last month judged its results as positive, as the number of visitors reached 9,800, or 300 more than expected, in spite of very bad weather hampering travel to the city. The space in the fairgrounds was fully booked with a ...
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Carl-August Seibel, joint chief executive of Josef Seibel Holding, will financially...
Carl-August Seibel, joint chief executive of Josef Seibel Holding, will financially support the production of one of the group's brands, Romika, in an area south of the Kenyan capital of Mombasa, together with two other entrepreneurs. The shoes will be worn with school uniforms in Kenya. The building for the production ...
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Adidas has revealed the new Futurecraft.Loop, a 100 percent recyclable...
Adidas has revealed the new Futurecraft.Loop, a 100 percent recyclable performance running shoe that is meant to contribute to the global battle against plastic waste. Each component of the shoe is made from 100 percent reusable TPU. Furthermore, the shoe is made using one material type and no glue, whereas ...
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Allbirds has joined the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA)'s new Associate...
Allbirds has joined the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA)'s new Associate Partners circle. The mission of the GFA is to mobilize the global fashion industry to set a common agenda for industry efforts on sustainability in fashion. The forum is also known for organizing the annual Copenhagen Fashion Summit. Its Associate ...
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M.Moustache is enabling its customers to help save the planet....
M.Moustache is enabling its customers to help save the planet. The French shoe firm has launched a recycling program called Encore, in partnership with I:CO. Two collection points have been installed in its Parisian shops to allow customers to bring back their used shoes. The items can be of other ...
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John Lewis Partnership, which includes John Lewis and Waitrose, has...
John Lewis Partnership, which includes John Lewis and Waitrose, has announced its commitment to have a net zero carbon footprint across all its stores, head offices and distribution centers by 2050. The company aims to decarbonize as much as possible already within the next ten years. Indeed, it plans to ...
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Perús, a fair-trade brand of Peruvian-themed footwear and accessories, has...
Perús, a fair-trade brand of Peruvian-themed footwear and accessories, has opened a store in the Marais neighborhood of Paris. The young company dates back to a backpacking trip taken by its three French founders – Nicolas Langlois d'Estaintot, Armand de Juniac and Henri Flouquet – through Latin America in 2014. ...
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Georgy Bidegain passed away on March 27. He was 85...
Georgy Bidegain passed away on March 27. He was 85 years old. He was an uncle of Jean-Pierre Bidegain, the well-known journalist and publisher who recently retired. Together with his brother José Bidegain, he built up Babybotte, the well-known brand of shoes for toddlers between the ages of one and ...
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Raymond Massaro, the legendary French cobbler, has died in Paris...
Raymond Massaro, the legendary French cobbler, has died in Paris at the age of 90. He was the grandson of Sébastien Massaro, who founded his workshop in 1894 at 2, rue de la Paix in Paris. Raymond Massaro took over the business in 1957. Also in the 1950s, he designed ...
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Stahl, the Dutch specialist in leather and performance coatings and...
Stahl, the Dutch specialist in leather and performance coatings and dyes, and Applied DNA Sciences have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to accelerate the use of molecular tagging in leather supply chains. Under the terms of the deal, the two parties will evaluate the molecular tagging of process ...
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While looking for a strategic partner, the Dutch-based Bretoniere Group...
While looking for a strategic partner, the Dutch-based Bretoniere Group has filed for insolvency on its wholesale and retail operations, blaming a drop in sales due to difficult market conditions. The group employs 115 people and sells shoes and handbags under two brand names, Fred de la Bretoniere and Shabbies ...
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Tapestry is beginning to take advantage of new synergies in...
Tapestry is beginning to take advantage of new synergies in shoe production between two of its brands, Coach and Stuart Weitzman. The American company has set up a team to produce a 1941 capsule collection of Coach shoes in Petrer, with an annual capacity of around 12,000 pairs. Petrer is ...
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LK Bennett, the British shoe and apparel retailer and wholesaler,...
LK Bennett, the British shoe and apparel retailer and wholesaler, has filed for judicial administration, a British form of bankruptcy, after failing to find a new investor who is willing to take over the company as well as its debt. Ernst & Young will oversee the administration process, with five ...
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Aldo Brué has relinquished the European license for Bruno Magli,...
Aldo Brué has relinquished the European license for Bruno Magli, after deliveries of the last autumn/winter collection. The Italian company had obtained the license two years ago from Neuberger Berman, with the right to sell the products also in Asia. As previously reported (Shoe Intelligence Vol. 20 n°19+20 of Oct. 20, 2018), ...
