2 May 2019What if Kurt Geiger was on sale? Auction base 450 million pounds. Madden, Capri and Tapestry are interested
2 May 2019Controversy in Pakistan for Louboutin: its sandal is an homage to chappal, but the brand is accused of “cultural appropriation”
29 Apr 2019Blahnik spoke: “So much garbage around”, “I am the stupid man who did shoes for women to make them happier”
29 Apr 2019A tour inside footwear manufacturer JM Weston, where one pair of Richelieu takes between 6 and 8 weeks of work
29 Apr 2019Leather’s circular virtue: British brand The Hand Dyed Shoe make footwear with sofas’ leftover
29 Apr 2019Romans and Albania, low costs only fit those who relocate: the workers emigrate and the factory lacks labor
29 Apr 2019Albania, as speaks Fital, a shoe factory with 8,000 pairs a day: “Currency speculators are ruining us, a hasty EU membership is not the solution”
25 Apr 2019Chaos in India: Jajmau tanners threaten “extreme consequences”, as GST “forces” footwear manufacturers to buy from the Chinese
18 Apr 2019Bata celebrates its 125 years of activity by changing “Friday revolution” and awards prized to the winners of Young Designers’ Challenge
18 Apr 2019Kenya, German group Seibel invests in a shoe factory: “We want to give young people a future”
18 Apr 2019Huajian group holds on to its “Africa’s largest investor” title: operations ready to begin in Zimbabwe and Egypt
18 Apr 2019From Kobe Leather (who wins the Satellite Award) to Fabi and Poltrona Frau: Salone and Fuorisalone smell like leather (part 3)
11 Apr 2019Footwear: goodbye to Raymond Massaro, “bottier du siècle” for Chanel (and not only), “great professional of the leather industry”
11 Apr 2019Adidas: (South African) leather and wood in its first “productive sharing” project in Cape Town
8 Apr 2019 PremiumFocus on the sixth World Footwear Congress: if companies do not take on digital challenges, they will lose some ground
8 Apr 2019Tod’s Factory to start a new “unconventional” stage while appointing Alber Elbaz for next collection
8 Apr 2019British footwear association celebrates its 120th anniversary at Northamptonshire’s Finest exhibition
