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A/Impact invests in the Italian sustainable sneaker brand Id.Eight
A/Impact, a venture capital firm, backed by Avanzi - Sostenibilità per Azioni and the asset manager Etica SGR, investing in social and environmentally responsible projects, has decided to invest €350,000 in Id.Eight, a Florence-based sneaker brand that uses waste materials. The funds will help support the brand in its internationalization ...
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ArticleFessura plans to raise €2.1 million in a crowdfunding
Fessura, a sneaker company based in Italy’s Marche region, is proceeding with a crowdfunding due to close on Jan.17 on the Mamacrowd platform. The maximum size of the transaction was increased to €2.1 million from €1.6 million “to give the opportunity to the many investors who have expressed interest in ...
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ArticleEmerging designer: The Peshawari chappal: Çaplait!
A cultural appropriation clash at the highest levels of the international fashion world led — apart from a retraction and relaunch of the offending item — to a fresh career direction for a British-born Pakistani entrepreneur, the creation of a new niche industry preserving traditional local skills in his parents’ ...
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ArticleVeldskoen Shoes diversifies into the travel industry
Veldskoen Shoes, a South African footwear brand, is expanding into the travel industry through a partnership in the U.S. with Rhino Africa Co, a safari company. The partners have launched Veldskoen Travel, a digital travel service “designed to provide unforgettable travel experiences to Africa,” it said in a statement. “Veldskoen’s ...
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ArticleMicam continues to showcase 12 emerging footwear designers
Scheduled to run from Sept. 17 to 20 at the Fieramilano Rho exhibition center at the outskirts of Milan, the 96th edition of the Micam footwear fair will, as always, showcase twelve up-and-coming footwear designers. Selected by a panel of some of the leading names in the Italian fashion and ...
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ArticleHow Portugal is planning to spend €120m to boost its footwear industry
Portuguese footwear producers are working on two projects to modernize the country’s industry with critical financing provided by Portugal’s recovery plan. The Agile, Intelligent, Sustainable and Technological Factory (FAIST) and the BioShoes4All projects rely on funds from Portugal’s €16 billion Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), part of the European Union’s ...
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ArticleC-Suite interview: On-demand production is key to Alohas’ success
Alohas’ revenues surged from €100,000 in 2015 to over €27 million in 2022, an extraordinary growth rate that has transformed in a few years a Catalan startup producing summer shoes into an international brand. The company made the quantum leap during the Covid-19 pandemic, when most of the footwear industry ...
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ArticleHow a new collection has prompted Safety Jogger to review its supply chain
Safety Jogger, the leading brand of the Belgian footwear and apparel company Cortina, launched in November 2022 a workwear collection as part of its brand extension policy and the initiative has led the company to reconsider its sourcing policy and reduce its reliance on China. At Expoprotection, an international exhibition ...
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ArticleiHeel presents an extendable heel for women’s shoes
iHeel, an Italian company proposing an extendable heel for women’s shoes, is obtaining a lot of interest from end users, resellers, distributors and e-commerce companies, according to Veronica Crisafulli, the company’s co-founder along with Alessandro Filosa. The pair has been working for three years on the heel’s prototypes and invested ...
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ArticleEmerging designers: An overview of innovative footwear design at Micam
In the run-up to the 95th edition of the Micam footwear show in Milan, here is a brief overview of the twelve emerging designers who will be doing their second go-round on their dedicated stand in the new MicamX area between Feb. 19 and Feb 22. Now in its fourth ...
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Shloop to open a production site in Mississippi
Shloop, a startup footwear manufacturer, is opening a manufacturing facility in Meridian, in the U.S. state of Mississipi. The $9 million investment is due to create 56 jobs. The footwear factory is located in a 32,000 square foot building dating back to the 1930s and started as a bakery. The ...
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Copenhagen, Liebeskind founders to launch a footwear brand
The founders of Liebeskind Berlin and Copenhagen Studios, the brothers Johannes and Julian Rellecke, are about to launch a new footwear label, according to the German trade magazine TextilWirtschaft. After Copenhagen Studios - which became in 2021 part of the s.Oliver Group and is currently expanding into the French ...
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ArticleEmerging designer: Pineapples, grape-skins an apples step out in style in Id.Eight’s sneakers
Ideas come easy at Id.Eight. Which is to be expected when its two creators come from such a solid background in footwear design (him), and fashion marketing (her). He is Dong Seon Lee, from Seoul, South Korea, who built on his Fashion Design degree from KMU (Kookmin University) in 2005, ...
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ArticleRussian shoe retailers diversify their offer to replace Western brands
Following a mass exodus of Western brands from Russia, caused by the country’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, several shoe retailers plan to add apparel and accessories to their product range to fill a gap in the market, according to the Russian think tank NF Group. Rendez-Vous, Ralf ...
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ArticleEmerging designer: Scylia Chevaux’s debut collection appeals to Japanese department stores
Held back, as was much else, by the Covid pandemic, and originally intended to be launched at least a year earlier, Scylia Chevaux’s 10.2” range made its debut of men’s and women shoes, boots, and accessories, at the September 2022 edition of the Micam footwear show in ...
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ArticleExpo Riva Schuh to hold 12 events focusing on sustainability, traceability, innovation
Expo Riva Schuh & Gardabags, scheduled from June 11 to 14 in Riva del Garda, Italy, will be hosting 12 events focusing on sustainability, traceability and innovation. The events will involve more than 40 speakers and guests and will be live streamed on the show’s platform from the opening day ...
