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Martin Krist, former head of Esprit’s shoe division, dies at 55
Martin Krist , former head of Esprit’ s shoe division and an innovative leader in the shoe industry, died unexpectedly in June at the age of 55. Krist was with Esprit for over 17 years, from July 1998 until the beginning of 2016, shaping the fashion manufacturer’s shoe business ...
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Sergio Rossi dies at 84
The iconic footwear designer Sergio Rossi , founder of the eponymous firm, died on April 2. He had been admitted to the intensive care unit of the Bufalini hospital in Cesena, Italy, after contracting the novel coronavirus, which has heavily affected the country. The son of a shoemaker, Rossi was ...
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Obituary for Luciano Mercalli
Luciano Mercalli , head of Cerim , has died after being infected with the novel coronavirus. Cerim, based in the Italian town of Vigevano, specializes in machines for the production of footwear. Mercalli, 78, fell ill after attending Simac Tanning Tech 2020 , the trade fair that was held in ...
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Obituary for Bob Campbell
Bob Campbell , founder and chief executive of BBC International , died on Feb. 17. He was 82. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Campbell spent more than 60 years in footwear, 20 of them at Kinney Shoes and its parent, F.W. Woolworth . He has been praised as a man of ...
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The founder of Over Teak, Cosimo Damiano Vitobello, has passed...
The founder of Over Teak, Cosimo Damiano Vitobello, has passed away at the age of 79. Vitobello founded Over Teak in Barletta, in the Italian region of Puglia, in 1990. He opened his first store, where shoes were manually crafted, back in 1958, when he was only 18. Over Teak ...
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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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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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Paul Golbert, the founder of Pajar Canada, passed away on...
Paul Golbert, the founder of Pajar Canada, passed away on Dec. 25, at the age of 92. Pajar Canada, founded in 1963, is a five-generation family-owned footwear and outerwear company based in Montreal. Golbert was born in France in a shoemaking family, and emigrated to Canada in the 1950s, starting ...
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Anthony Chaloub, who had been running the Chaloub Group together...
Anthony Chaloub, who had been running the Chaloub Group together with his younger brother Patrick since 2011, died in Paris at the age of 63 after a long fight against cancer. He was praised for his honesty, his humility, his kindness and his humanitarian spirit. Founded in 1955 by his ...
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Wanda Miletti Ferragamo, the widow of Salvatore Ferragamo, has died...
Wanda Miletti Ferragamo, the widow of Salvatore Ferragamo, has died at the age of 96. Wanda took over from her late husband the eponymous Florence-based brand after he died in 1960, when she was 39 years old. She was 24 years his junior. Salvatore Ferragamo was known for making custom-made ...
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Robert Siff, a veteran of the footwear industry and a...
Robert Siff, a veteran of the footwear industry and a former president and lifetime director of Two Ten Footwear Foundation, passed away on Sept. 11. He was 94, and had fought a 20-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. During his career, Siff served as president and chief executive of B-W Footwear, ...
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We have been informed that Don McCarthy, a figurehead of...
We have been informed that Don McCarthy, a figurehead of the British shoe retail sector, die on July 21 of cancer, aged 63. After working for many years at the former Stead Simpson group, where he ran some of its Ravel and Stylo stores, he founded in 1991 ...
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Suspected of having committed suicide, Kate Spade, 55, was found...
Suspected of having committed suicide, Kate Spade, 55, was found dead on June 5 in her apartment in New York. Her husband and partner, Andy Spade, told The New York Times that she suffered of depression. Together, they launched two years ago a new brand of shoes and accessories, Frances ...
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Walter Fink, former owner of the German Fink Schuhe +...
Walter Fink, former owner of the German Fink Schuhe + Sport retail chain of 60 shoe and sporting goods stores, passed away at the age of 87. Born in 1930, Fink joined his father s shoe retail store in 1960. He focused on the expansion of the company before he ...
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Binsar Marpoung has passed away at the age of 79....
Binsar Marpoung has passed away at the age of 79. He had been the secretary general of Aprisindo, the Indonesian footwear industry association, since 2009.
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Sonja Bata, the widow of Thomas J. Bata and the...
Sonja Bata, the widow of Thomas J. Bata and the founder of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, died at the age of 91. First established in 1995, the museum hosts more than 13,000 shoe models from 45 centuries and from all over the world that she helped collect, frequently ...
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Pierre Godé, who was instrumental in the build-up of the...
Pierre Godé, who was instrumental in the build-up of the LVMH group as an adviser to its chairman and chief executive, Bernard Arnault, has passed away after a long illness. He was 73 years old. Godé had been working with Arnault since the mid-1980s. He has been sitting on the ...
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Sioux has announced the death of Karin Sapper on Sept....
Sioux has announced the death of Karin Sapper on Sept. 29 at the age of 89. She took over the reins of the German shoe company after the death in 1981 of her husband, Peter Sapper, who had founded it in 1954, launching the mocassin in Germany. She led the ...
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Thierry Rabotin, the French designer who gave his name to...
Thierry Rabotin, the French designer who gave his name to the exquisite brand of women's shoes marketed by Italy's Parabiago Collezioni, died of a heart attack on Aug. 12. He was 66 years old. At the last Micam show, where the brand had one of its best presences in a ...
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Hartmut Schelchen, founder of Schelchen, the German company that owns...
Hartmut Schelchen, founder of Schelchen, the German company that owns the Pedag brand of footwear insoles, passed away at the age of 87. He seized the chance of the economic miracle after the second world war to set up his own production. It was always important for him to manufacture ...
