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    Rothy’s wins lawsuit against Giesswein on pointed-toe loafer

    2021-01-11T09:46:00Z

    The San Francisco based shoe company Rothy’s has won a patent infringement lawsuit against the Austrian shoemaker Giesswein Walkwaren regarding its pointed-toe loafer-style flats. According to the High Court of Justice’s Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, Giesswein’s “Pointy Flat” shoe infringed on Rothy’s “Pointed Loafer” and can ...

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    ​Asso obtains 4US license for kids’ shoes

    2020-12-21T07:35:00Z

    The Italian shoe maker Asso signed a worldwide license agreement with the Italian footwear designer Cesare Paciotti for the production and distribution of children’s shoes under the 4US brand from the current autumn/winter season. Asso will offer boy and girl shoes for children aged from six to 13 years old, ...

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    Gore and Bionic Yarn jointly develop textiles made from ocean-bound plastics

    2020-12-07T16:09:00Z

    W. L. Gore & Associates and Bionic Yarn, a material engineering company from New York, have announced a collaboration to drive the development of a high-performance textile made from traceable, recycled plastic. Gore said it recently made an equity investment in Bionic to help streamline its fiber supply chain and ...

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    Giuseppe Zanotti enters license agreement with Alexandre Vauthier

    2020-12-06T14:07:00Z

    The Italian shoe maker Giuseppe Zanotti has entered a license agreement with Alexandre Vauthier to manufacture and distribute footwear under the name of the French designer. Vauthier is scheduled to present the collection at his haute couture show in Paris in January, but Zanotti is unveiling a pre-collection in ...

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    Teva collaborates with Chrishabana

    2020-11-23T12:19:00Z

    Teva’s spring/summer 2021 collection will include a footwear line designed in collaboration with Chrishabana, a jeweler in New York City. Called Heavy Metals, the line comprises four revisions – with barbell piercings and pearls – of Teva’s Universal Sandals and is to celebrate trans people and BIPOC (black, indigenous, people ...

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    Schuhe24 buys an online platform for bike dealers

    2020-11-17T09:45:00Z

    The German Schuhe24 Group, which manages an online marketplace for independent retailers in many sectors, is branching out into the hot bicycle segment by joining Bike-Angebot.de and taking over majority control. That company claims it operates the largest platform for bicycle dealers in Germany, carrying over 25,000 bicycles offered by ...

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    Cole Haan releases hiking boots and sneakers

    2020-11-17T08:04:00Z

    Cole Haan has released a new hiking boot as well as a sneaker from its collaboration with the comedian and writer Hasan Minhaj. Introduced back in September, the 4.ZERØGRAND Hiker ($250) comes in men’s and women’s versions and in a number of colorways. The brand calls it its “most advanced ...

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    Mizuno plans lifestyle footwear for Europe

    2020-11-13T18:07:00Z

    The Japanese sports equipment and sportswear company Mizuno is planning to develop non-sports products like lifestyle footwear for the European market. In the first half of its fiscal year ending on March 31, 2021, Mizuno’s overall revenues declined by 22.5 percent from the year-ago period to 66.2 billion yen (€537.7m-$639.0m). ...

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    Ralf Ringer suffers staff shortage due to pandemic

    2020-10-30T16:56:00Z

    The Russian footwear group Ralf Ringer is seeking 200 employees to replace labor migrants, who had to leave Russia because jobless during the Covid-19-related lockdown. The company manufactures 2 million pairs per year at four factories in Vladimir, Zarajsk, Moscow, and Taldom. Ralf Ringer also runs a retail network of ...

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    Allbirds launches apparel line

    2020-10-26T05:48:00Z

    Allbirds, the B Corporation certified Californian brand of sustainable footwear, has launched its first apparel line. It is available in the company’s 21 stores in the U.S., Europe, China and New Zealand and online. The collection comprises T-shirts made out of a fiber derived from discarded crab shells, cardigans and ...

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    WhatsApp to add in-app purchases, enterprise message hosting

    2020-10-25T18:15:00Z

    Facebook will soon be adding in-app purchases and enterprise message hosting to WhatsApp. Companies will be able to use Facebook Shops – the e-commerce platform that made its debut in May and feeds into all Facebook apps – to sell products through the messaging app. Companies will also be able ...

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    Havaianas creates international division

    2020-10-25T17:38:00Z

    The Brazilian footwear group Alpargatas has created an international division for its flip-flop brand Havaianas. The division is based in Spain and run by Frédéric Lévy, a seasoned senior manager. Lévy was previously chief executive and president of Coravin, an America startup manufacturing products for the wine industry and currently ...

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    Vibram teams up with Balenciaga on footwear collection

    2020-10-20T09:38:00Z

    Vibram is introducing the “Toe” collection, a collaboration with Balenciaga on a shoe range made from recycled knit. The collaborative collection consists of two limited-edition sneaker styles and a high-heeled model. The shoes feature Vibram’s patented FiveFingers shoe platform, which separates the five toes. Each item is stamped with both ...

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    Crocs enters collaboration with Justin Bieber

    2020-10-19T07:48:00Z

    On Oct. 13, Crocs released a limited edition of clogs deriving from a collaboration with the Canadian singer Justin Bieber, the Canadian singer, globally including China and South Korea. The Crocs X Justin Bieber with drew Classic Clog were sold at $59.99 across select Crocs and partner e-commerce channels, including ...

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    Ferragamo launches 3D made-to-order service

    2020-10-18T11:42:00Z

    Salvatore Ferragamo has teamed with Microsoft and its technological partner Hevolus to offer a 3D made-to-order service enabling the customization of the Italian luxury brand’s Tramezza footwear styles. Thanks to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud computing service and its mixed reality technologies, upon which Hevolus’s Augmented Store at Home platform is based, ...

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    Lenzing, Covestro help spearhead Renewable Carbon Initiative

    2020-10-14T16:16:00Z

    Materials producers Lenzing and Covestro are among 11 companies from six countries that recently joined forces to launch the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI). The initiative, under the leadership of German research institute nova-Institute, aims to phase out the use of fossil fuels for all organic chemicals and materials by 2050 ...

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    Analpa has introduced “fashion comfort” with Grünberg

    2020-10-14T15:45:00Z

    Claiming to have broken new ground by introducing the concept of “fashion comfort” in the shoe market, Analpa, the Russian-American parent of Keddo, has had a good ride with Grünberg, a new brand of relatively “cool” comfort shoes originally meant for the German-speaking market, which targets mainly young people. After ...

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    Hoff collaborates with Moisés Nieto

    2020-10-14T06:33:00Z

    The Hoff Brand has released a women’s sneaker co-branded with its designer, the Spaniard Moisés Nieto, who founded his eponymous brand in 2011. The Moisés Nieto x Hoff has an upper of white leather with grey and blue accents, a white and red outsole, and a blue and white check ...

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    Sioux, Puma, Adidas, Buffalo, Jenah St. take top honours at PETA Germany’s Vegan Fashion Awards 2020

    2020-10-10T06:33:00Z

    Sioux, Puma, Adidas, Buffalo and Jenah St. are among the winners of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) Germany’s Vegan Fashion Awards 2020, announced last week. Aimed at promoting animal-friendly and environmentally conscious fashion, the animal rights organization’s awards were presented this year for the seventh time ...