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A recent survey in the U.K. has revealed that the...
A recent survey in the U.K. has revealed that the average British man owns as many shoes as British women do, but British men are now spending more on shoes than women. The poll has been conducted by Spartoo, the fashion e-tailer, among 2,000 adults. British men own 19 pairs ...
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With the opening of the new order season, Lloyd Shoes...
With the opening of the new order season, Lloyd Shoes has launched a new ShoeViewer app that enables retailers and consumers to view selected models from The Lloyd Magazine, the German company's catalog, in 3D. Developed together with Scanblue Engineering and the agency Saint Elmo's Hamburg, the app allows users ...
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Peter Kaiser is planning to open new mono-label stores later...
Peter Kaiser is planning to open new mono-label stores later this year, particularly in Canada, through the same retailer who has done good business with another Peter Kaiser store in Toronto. This year has already seen the opening of Peter Kaiser stores in the Dutch city of Utrecht in April ...
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Ivanka Trump must testify in a lawsuit over knock-off shoes...
Ivanka Trump must testify in a lawsuit over knock-off shoes against her apparel company. A New York District, Judge Katherine Forrest, rejected the assertion that Trump should be exempt because of the demands on her time as a senior White House official advising her father, U.S. President Donald Trump. Aquazzurra, ...
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Vibram is introducing a new Vibram Litebase technology which, it...
Vibram is introducing a new Vibram Litebase technology which, it says, reduces by up to 30 percent the weight of the outsole without affecting the properties of Vibram's normal soles. The new technology will be tested on a shoe with Vibram's Megagrip compound by the members of the Trailrunning Team ...
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Italy’s shoe industry is slowly recovering
The turnover of the Italian footwear industry grew by 5 percent in value and by 2 percent in volume in the first quarter of the year, but the figures are still considerably lower than in 2013, when they were 50 percent higher in value and 40 percent higher in volume. ...
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Yoox Net-a-porter (YNAP) has inaugurated a tech hub in London....
Yoox Net-a-porter (YNAP) has inaugurated a tech hub in London. Located in west London's White City, the hub has been designed by Nicholas Grimshaw, the architect behind the Eden Project domes in Cornwall. The 6,500-square-meter facility can host up to 650 IT experts, including the current 500 employees of the ...
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Get ready for Milan XL
Milan XL is the name chosen to describe a big festival of Italian creativity that will accompany theMicam, Mipel and the runway shows of Milano Moda Donna in the context of the Milan Fashion Week between Sept. 16 and 26.With help from the Italian government, the Italian shoe industry association, ...
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Viking Footwear will not renew its license of Kangaroos in...
Viking Footwear will not renew its license of Kangaroos in Scandinavia. The license agreement between Kangaroos and Viking will be terminated at the end of this year. It has not been decided yet who will continue with the Kangaroos license in Scandinavia from 2018. Bernd Hummel, the licensee of the ...
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Grenson is putting out the first sneaker under its own...
Grenson is putting out the first sneaker under its own brand name, the Sneaker 1, making it available on its own website. It is made in Italy. The British company had launched a collaborative model with New Balance in this product category last year, followed by another one recently with ...
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J.B. Martin falls into receivership
J.B. Martin, another well-known, medium-sized French shoe company, was placed in receivership on June 28 by the Paris Tribunal de Commerce in view of the possible sale of the entire business or parts of it by Alter Finance, a French investment firm that took it over in 1986. The court ...
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Italy remained last year the world's largest exporter of leather...
Italy remained last year the world's largest exporter of leather with a total value of about €3.8 billion last year, according to the country's tanners' association, Unic. Exports of leather for shoes and clothing declined by 2 percent. A bigger decline of 7 percent was registered for leather used in ...
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Marc Martin is expanding his responsibilities for marketing and retail...
Marc Martin is expanding his responsibilities for marketing and retail management at Camel Active Footwear, taking on also the role of sales manager from Michael Kleine, who is leaving the Gabor Footwear group after many years
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An exhibition entitled “The seduction of footwear: Italian glamour” showcased...
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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Havaianas opened its first store in the German market earlier...
Havaianas opened its first store in the German market earlier this month. Located in the famous Berlin shopping avenue, the Ku'damm, the shop occupies 70 square meters of retail space. There are now 30 Havaianas stores throughout Europe, as well as 40 concessions and 80 franchise shops.
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Marcus Ewig, the managing director of Peter Kaiser, is leaving....
Marcus Ewig, the managing director of Peter Kaiser, is leaving. Ewig held the position at the Germany company, based in Pirmasens, for five years after joining from Porsche. A successor has not yet been announced. In other news, a few weeks ago Peter Kaiser hired a new manager, Jiani Wu, ...
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Rudolf Hampl is stepping down as managing director of Legero...
Rudolf Hampl is stepping down as managing director of Legero Schuhfabrik from the start of 2018. After more than two decades in the position, Hampl will gradually hand over control of the Austrian children's shoe manufacturer to a management team over a six-month period. The transition has been planned for ...
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J.M. Weston has named Olivier Saillard, the director of Paris'...
J.M. Weston has named Olivier Saillard, the director of Paris' fashion museum (Palais Galliera), as its new artistic, image and culture director. He will replace Michel Perry, who has been with the luxury shoe brand since 2001. Saillard will leave his functions at Palais Galliera in January 2018. J.M. Weston ...
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Diesel has reorganized the sales structure for its footwear lines...
Diesel has reorganized the sales structure for its footwear lines in the Austrian and German markets in order to grow the business. The Fashion Brands Agency, a sales agency based in Munich, has taken over the distribution in the territory. Previously, Diesel directly supplied about 80 retailers with its shoes, ...
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Désirée Schwarz marked herself as a name to watch out...
Désirée Schwarz marked herself as a name to watch out for in German footwear design by taking out getting an award at the German College of Footwear Design and Technology in Pirmasens. A jury of industry experts, including Achim Tischer, the managing director of Wortmann, and Nina Maier, of the ...
