As the retail market rapidly shifts, footwear consumers are responding to all-things old school: retro shoe styles, analog marketing campaigns and throwback designs from a simpler time. At Adidas, for example, the sportswear maker is grappling with the loss of its Yeezy business amid a generally bloated athletic market. But amid these issues, the brand has managed […]
Holiday retail sales in the U.S. will rise 3.7 percent in a 2023 season marked by “normalizing” omnichannel trends, according to Mastercard. Executives from the giant payment processing company pointed out that the 3.7 percent rate pertains to the Nov. 1 to Dec. 24 period, and is in nominal numbers, which excludes inflation. That means that […]
Several years ago, a number of footwear and fashion brands started making versions of a traditional Pakistani sandal — but not giving credit to its origins. Usman Manzoor took notice. The founder of Çaplait, a full-time educator in the U.K. whose parents hail from Pakistan, launched his brand in 2018 as a way to celebrate and […]
Volumental is setting its sights on expansion in North America. On Monday, the Swedish footwear fit tech company said it is setting up a physical presence in North America with offices and employees based in the region for the first time. While location and number of employees are not yet known, Volumental did confirm that the company’s current […]
Spring ’24 may be the season of the ballet flat, but they were nowhere to be seen on the Burberry runway. Instead, chief creative officer Daniel Lee continued to march to his own artistic beat for his second season at the British luxury brand, finding ways to reinterpret its traditional aesthetic codes and creating new peculiarities within them. […]
Ugg’s dedication to providing a more mindful product and commitment to its larger sustainability goals is taking another step forward into regenerative agriculture. There is an intrinsic link between agriculture and the fashion industry’s supply chains that have often created destructive farming practices as raw materials are made into consumer products. Seeing a way to […]
New York Fashion Week has come to a close, bringing with it one piece of the puzzle of what spring ’24 fashion will look like next year. While NYFW is not usually a footwear-heavy location on the fashion circuit (save that for Milan, land of shoes), this time around saw the return of some footwear designers — namely […]
The Council of Fashion Designers of America has revealed the nominees and honorees for the 2023 CFDA Fashion Awards presented by Amazon Fashion. The awards and gala will be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on Nov. 6. The nominees for American Womenswear Designer of the Year are Joseph Altuzarra for Altuzarra, […]
Despite a marked slowdown in the second quarter, the Italian footwear industry closed the first half of 2023 on a positive note, according to the latest data from Confindustria Moda Research Centre for Assocalzaturifici, the national association representing Italian shoemakers. In the first half of the year, the country’s shoe sector saw a 7.4 percent increase in […]
MILAN – After a 2022 that chief executive officer Silvio Campara had described as “unforgettable,” Golden Goose continued its upward trajectory in the first half of the year. In the six months ended June 30, revenues rose 21 percent to 276.4 million euros compared with the same period last year. Compared with the first half of 2021, sales soared […]