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Falc buys Candice Cooper
The Italian footwear group Falc has bought Candice Cooper, a brand of luxury sneakers manufactured in Italy, from Swiss-based Candice Cooper AG. Despite the takeover, the autumn/winter collection will continue to be distributed by the former owner. Falc will manage the spring/summer 2021 collection, which will offer a larger women’s ...
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Marc Fisher takes over Calvin Klein footwear license in North America
Marc Fisher Footwear has entered a multi-year license agreement with Calvin Klein for the design, production and distribution of both Calvin Klein and Calvin Klein Jeans women’s and men’s footwear collections in the U.S. and Canada. The move comes as the footwear license held by Jimlar, a unit of Global ...
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Mulberry ends footwear, ready-to-wear collections
The British luxury goods brand Mulberry has decided to end its footwear and ready-to-wear collections, produced under license by Onward Luxury Group (OLG) since 2015, to focus on leathergoods, which represent about 90 percent of its revenues. OLG is the Milan-based branch of the Japanese company Onward Holdings. Mulberry is ...
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Camper accelerates product development thanks to new PLM solution
Camper said that thanks to the implementation of a new Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution, provided by Centric Software, it has managed to reduce product development time, centralize all product data and boost quality control. The Spanish footwear company has explained that it previously struggled with outdated software, not designed ...
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Birkenstock to sell footwear designed by Central Saint Martins’ students
From February, Birkenstock will sell in selected stores worldwide and on the site 1774.com footwear designed by four students of Central Saint Martins. The German company started working with the London-based college in 2018 when it commissioned the BA Fashion History & Theory course to work on its archive. In ...
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ArticleCCILU open to partnerships on new green material
CCILU, the Taiwanese brand of lifestyle footwear, has launched Greenplax, a new ecological raw material for outsoles, insoles and upper fabric upcycled from plastic bottles. The announcement is accompanied by a $20,000 crowdfunding and marketing campaign on Kickstarter for a shoe model called Renee, said to incorporate the equivalent of ...
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Zalando extends Connected Retail aid package to Poland, Sweden, Spain
From July, Zalando will be extending its offer to waive commissions on its Connected Retail program to Poland, Sweden and Spain. The initiative, which was originally aimed at supporting brick-and-mortar stores during the coronavirus crisis, was introduced in Germany and the Netherlands on April 1. The offer will run until ...
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Havaianas launches first collection for the street
Havaianas, the Brazilian flip flop brand owned by Alpargatas, has launched its first style created for the street rather than the beach in collaboration with the Japanese urban fashion brand mastermind JAPAN. The sandals have a square base, rather than the brand’s traditional rounded shape, a thick rubber sole and ...
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Aldi launches climate-neutral sneaker
The German food discounter Aldi Süd has developed a climate-neutral sneaker under its own brand, Crane Pure, which will be on sale from June 10. The sneaker is made partly from recycled PET bottles, and the CO² emissions caused by production, transport and distribution are offset by a certified climate ...
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Benetton inks sneaker deal with UBC
Benetton Group has signed a “multi-year” licensing deal with and Italian sneaker producer, United Brands Company (UBC), for the design, production and distribution of new sneaker collections for men, women and children under its United Colors of Benetton brand. UBC will also handle the distribution in countries in which it ...
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Sebago in co-branding partnership with Baracuta
Sebago, the brand owned by Italy’s BasicNet, has joined forces with British fashion group Baracuta for a new spring-summer 2020 capsule collection known as “Sebago with Baracuta”. The collection hit stores in late May after a preview at the Pitti Immagine Uomo trade fair in June 2019 and consists of ...
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Buffalo to launch vegan shoe collection
Buffalo, the German footwear brand acquired by Deichmann in October 2016, launched its first vegan shoe models, developed in cooperation with the designer Marina Hoermanseder. The collection for the forthcoming autumn/winter season consists of five shoe models that are wholly made with vegan materials. They will be on sale from ...
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Grendene resumes partial production in Ceará state
On June 1, the Brazilian footwear manufacturer Grendene resumed production at its plants in Crato and Fortaleza, both in the state of Ceará, which had been temporarily closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. On June 8, Grendene expects to resume production in Sobral, also located in Ceará and where it ...
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Adidas teams up with Allbirds
Adidas announced a collaboration with Allbirds, the well-known American brand of sustainable footwear, to develop the sport performance shoe with the lowest-ever carbon footprint. The project will involve exploring recyclable material resources as well as the use of renewable energies in manufacturing and transportation. Adidas said the project is part ...
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Caval to release shoes made of apple fibers
Caval, the Parisian brand that delights in asymmetry with its mismatched pairs of shoes, is launching a new unisex collection that trades leather for a vegan material called Pellemela (literally “apple skin”). The sole will be made in Portugal of 40 percent recycled rubber and the inserts in Spain from ...
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Vans helps retailers with “Foot the Bill” initiative
VF Corporation’s Vans brand is seeking to help the small skate shops that have underpinned its success and other local businesses weather the Covid-19 storm. Its “Foot the Bill” customization initiative – which involves the brand’s small business partners designing their own Vans and pocketing the net proceeds from their ...
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Crowdfunding delivers a new brand of vegan shoe
As Fashion Network reports, a two-year partnership between Lionel Le Floch, the designer behind the Le Flow footwear brand, and Carole Beauverger, co-founder of the showroom Showtime Paris, has produced a new brand of vegan shoes, Supergreen. The brand’s shoes are made of corn fiber, sourced from an Italian producer. ...
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Keen switches part of production in Thailand to face masks
Keen Footwear has converted a production line at one of its factories in Thailand to manufacture reusable and washable face masks. As part of its “Together we can help” campaign, the American outdoor footwear brand has donated 100,000 masks worldwide to people working in the retail industry. In Germany alone, ...
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Leomil to launch a Baby Shark collection
Through a licensing deal arranged by the WildBrain CPLG agency, Leomil has established a partnership with Nickelodeon, the American television channel, and Pinkfong, the brand that produced Baby Shark, to launch a new Baby Shark-branded collection. The first products will be available for the back-to-school season in Europe and the ...
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Allbirds introduces its first running shoe
Going in the same direction as Veja, the French brand of sustainable footwear that launched its firt running shoes at the Ispo show in Munich earlier this year, Allbirds, the brand that focuses on environment-friendly footwear, has released its first running shoe. The Tree Dasher is made with sugarcane, eucalyptus ...
