All Trade fairs & conferences articles – Page 14

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    The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City...

    2017-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City hosted its annual fundraising party on Nov. 14, inviting many celebrities from the international music and art scene. For the event, Trisha Baga, an artist living and working in New York, designed an art piece together with Birkenstock. A sculpture, ...

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    After opening a subsidiary in the Netherlands at the beginning...

    2017-11-30T00:00:00Z

    After opening a subsidiary in the Netherlands at the beginning of this year, Sabu is scheduling its first order tour in the Benelux countries for Jan. 22, 2018

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    TheMicam, which is still the world's largest shoe show, will...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    TheMicam, which is still the world's largest shoe show, will start on Sunday, presenting the latest offerings of about 1,400 companies from around the world. It will again give a special highlight to the luxury segment of the market, welcoming for the first time the shoe collections of four big ...

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    For the first time, the Poznan Fashion Fair in Poland...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    For the first time, the Poznan Fashion Fair in Poland will be welcoming Spanish footwear companies this year. The edition of the trade show took place in the Polish city on Sept. 5-7. Spain's shoe exports to Poland reached €66 billion last year. According to Icex, the Spanish agency for ...

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    Momad Shoes, the Spanish shoe show is expecting a larger...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Momad Shoes, the Spanish shoe show is expecting a larger number of visitors for its upcoming edition, which will take place at IFEMA-Feria de Madrid on Sept. 22-24. The organizers of the trade show said visitors who have registered online are up by nearly 10 percent as compared to the ...

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    Who's Next Première Classe, the French fashion exhibition in Paris,...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Who's Next Première Classe, the French fashion exhibition in Paris, reported an increase in attendance for the first time in three years. According to the organizers, the number of visitors grew by 10.1 percent to 42,122. The reports from the show were generally positive, except for the fact that there ...

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    Manolo Blahnik is starring in a new documentary film, “Manolo,...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Manolo Blahnik is starring in a new documentary film, “Manolo, The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards.” Meanwhile, a retrospective exhibition of more than 200 styles by the Spanish 74-year-old shoe designer is travelling around the world. After stops in Milan and St. Petersburg, it is now being shown in ...

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    Birkenstock made a big splash in New York City with...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Birkenstock made a big splash in New York City with its Birkenstock Box in association with Barneys New York, which designed the interior of the freight container and co-created a limited-edition line of Birkenstock shoes and added some of its own merchandise. The company's new mobile retail concept remained open ...

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    Footwear Friends will host its annual awards ceremony for young...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Footwear Friends will host its annual awards ceremony for young designers in London on Oct. 18. The jury will meet on Sept. 28 to examine the proposals, which are said to of “extraordinarily good quality” this time. Dune, Clarks, Pentland, the University of Northampton and the British Footwear Association will ...

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    The Portuguese city of Porto will host the 20th International...

    2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

    The Portuguese city of Porto will host the 20th International Technical Footwear Congress of UITIC, the International Union of Shoe Industry Technicians, next May 16-18. A committee steered by the Portuguese shoes industry association (Apiccaps) and Portuguese footwear technology center, CTCP will organize the convention and its program, which will ...

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    Lineapelle New York, which was held at the Metropolitan Pavilion...

    2017-08-18T00:00:00Z

    Lineapelle New York, which was held at the Metropolitan Pavilion on July 18-19, hosted 120 exhibitors, an increase of 20 percent versus the previous edition, and welcomed 1,300 visitors. Lineapelle will be back in New York from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1, 2018. Meanwhile, the trade show will hold its ...

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    Design Attack, which was a component of the former GDS,...

    2017-08-18T00:00:00Z

    Design Attack, which was a component of the former GDS, will run as an independent two-day event for new brands, starting on the eve of Gallery Shoes on Aug. 26. It will be staged at 114 Kölnerstrasse in Düsseldorf. Tag it, the private label show of volume suppliers that ran ...

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    An exhibition entitled “The seduction of footwear: Italian glamour” showcased...

    2017-07-18T00:00:00Z

    An exhibition entitled “The seduction of footwear: Italian glamour” showcased Italian footwear in Seoul on July 10-12. The event was promoted by Assocalzaturifici ahead of theMicam, which will be held in Milan in September. The exhibition was organized alongside “La moda italiana a Seoul,” the trade fair for Italian fashion ...

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    Birkenstock organized for the first time a special two-day event...

    2017-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Birkenstock organized for the first time a special two-day event for buyers in the Tuileries Gardens during the recent Paris Fashion Week. It also exhibited at the Seek and Premium shows during the recent Berlin Fashion Week. It has confirmed its participation in the new German trade show, Gallery Shoes, ...

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    Pitti Uomo attracted fewer attendees this past June . Around...

    2017-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Pitti Uomo attracted fewer attendees this past June . Around 19,000 buyers attended the 92nd edition for the spring/summer collections, down from 20,500 in June 2016. The edition which was held in Florence on June 13-16, 2017 attracted more than 30,000 visitors overall. The number of Italian buyers dropped by ...

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    Pure London has announced that it is adding a “footwear...

    2017-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Pure London has announced that it is adding a “footwear destination,” a dedicated upstairs floor, to the forthcoming edition of the women's wear show, due to be held at London's Olympia fairgrounds on July 23-25. Footwear brands returning to the event include Birkenstock alongside Alpe, Anuschka, Nero Giardini, Saz, Unisa ...

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    Attendance at the 88th edition of the Expo Riva Schuh...

    2017-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Attendance at the 88th edition of the Expo Riva Schuh show on Italy's Lake Garda on June 10-13 was virtually flat with a total of 11,224 registered visitors. The business climate was described as relatively positive. The organizers mentioned the presence of a big delegation of French buyers as well ...

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    About 450 brands have booked space at Première Classe, the...

    2017-07-18T00:00:00Z

    About 450 brands have booked space at Première Classe, the footwear and accessories show scheduled for Sept. 8-11 in Paris

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    A trade mission to Russia involving 34 Brazilian shoe brands...

    2017-07-18T00:00:00Z

    A trade mission to Russia involving 34 Brazilian shoe brands could generate business worth more than $4 million for the South American country. Abicalçados, the footwear industry association, undertook the trade mission at the start of June. According to Abicalçados, the companies made contact with around 300 buyers with most ...

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    Bookings for the Sept. 22-24 edition of the Momad Shoes...

    2017-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Bookings for the Sept. 22-24 edition of the Momad Shoes fair in Madrid have already reached 7,000 square meters, exceeding the occupancy level of the March 2017 edition. Several brands will return to the show, including Hannibal Laguna and Paredes, which just got a prize. The buyers' program of the ...