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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 a ...
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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 left ...
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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 ...
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Guy Gasparian, who ran Hirica from 1996 to 2016, died...
Guy Gasparian, who ran Hirica from 1996 to 2016, died last month at the age of 78, after a long illness. Founded in 1904, the French shoe company was recently taken over by an industry veteran, Jean-François Bru.
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Birkenstock has announced the death of Margot Fraser, the German-American...
Birkenstock has announced the death of Margot Fraser, the German-American dressmaker and designer who brought the iconic brand to the U.S. more than 40 years ago. Fraser discovered and personally experienced Birkenstock sandals on a trip to Germany in 1966. Based on that experience, she decided to contact Karl Birkenstock ...
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Stefan Vierhig, who has worked for the Wortmann group for...
Stefan Vierhig, who has worked for the Wortmann group for almost four decades, concentrating on export markets, has passed away after a long illness. He was 55 years old. He had been less active on the sales front in the past years because of his illness.
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Georges Biotteau, whose family owns the Eram group, has died....
Georges Biotteau, whose family owns the Eram group, has died. Eram was founded by his father François in 1846. The company became the largest shoe manufacturer in France during the 1960s. It is now one of the two major French shoe retailers. Run by his son Xavier, it has 12 ...
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Joan Helpern, half of the shoe duo behind the Joan...
Joan Helpern, half of the shoe duo behind the Joan & David brand, has died in New York at the age of 89. According to reports in WWD, her death was caused by respiratory failure. David Helpern, Joan's husband and business partner, died in 2012. The pair founded together a ...
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Mickey Chen, founder and chief executive of Kingmaker, died from...
Mickey Chen, founder and chief executive of Kingmaker, died from wounds after being stabbed at one of the company's shoe factories in Vietnam, by a warehouse manager after he was questioned about missing inventory, according to a report in the Taipei Times. Chen founded Kingmaker in Taiwan in 1981 and ...
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Friedrich Schüttfort, a highly respected German shoe retailer who served...
Friedrich Schüttfort, a highly respected German shoe retailer who served as chairman of the former Nord-West-Ring buying group, passed away on Jan. 16 at the age of 90. He joined the board of NRW in 1997 and led it from 1982 to 1989. In 1979, he participated in the foundation ...
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Douglas Tompkins, who founded The North Face in 1964 and...
Douglas Tompkins, who founded The North Face in 1964 and Esprit in 1968, died in a kayaking accident in Southern Chile on Dec. 8. He was 72 years old. At Esprit, he pioneered the shop-in-shop concept in department stores. Passionate about the environment, he used some of the money from ...
