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Hyderabad is all set to get a Rs.100 crore Footwear Design and Development Institute. The Andhra Pradesh government has already allocated the required land at Gachibowli in Cyberabad. A couple [...]

Local footwear designers and budding entrepreneurs can now produce prototypes and even upgrade their skills in Singapore's first footwear design and education centre. The country's minister of state for trade [...]

Design house Saint & Libertine New York LLC announced that it is debuting Ivy Kirzhner's eponymous line of luxury women's footwear. According to a release, Ivy Kirzhner is introducing her [...]

Sam & Libby The celebration of spring is clearly evident in Sam & Libby's 'breezy' children's footwear. Bright, primary are key as are open, strappy sandals with a slight wedge. [...]

Bata India, a footwear manufacturer, has decided concentrate on tier-II, tier-III and rural India for growth. It has designed footwears suitable for rural market and will market them through wholesalers. [...]

Bata India has opened a large format store at Westend Mall in Ludhiana. Covering 4,500 square feet space, the store showcases a range of stylish and comfortable footwear brands from [...]

The French fashion picture for late 1993 was a soft, fluid look. Shoes to complement the clothes had a feminine silhouette. High heels are back, particularly in the form of the high-heeled instep-strapper or the similar high-heeled ankle-strapper. Very little of the clunky shoes that have been prevalent was evident in the latest fashion shows. Lace-up summer boots, slides, flat oxfords, T-strappers and espadrilles were popular., CLAUDE MONTANA: Earthbound divas. Even Montana, king of construction, took a softer turn this season, sprinkling supple fabrics and less severe cuts among his signature crisp, ultratailored suits. Long linen [...]

From sale to soul, Tashi builds a bridge for all those shoe-lovers. A venture that's new shores to Tata, TASHI stands out from the clutter at Linking Rood, Bandra. Making [...]

The birth of a retail brand can stem from many varied stories, but perhaps none so fitting (pun intended) as a footwear brand born of a broken heart. In an [...]

Spring 1993 is the season of clogs as the fashion for floral long skirts and cut-off short shorts make a comeback. In delicate shades and high heels, the traditional country use for the footwear is transmuted to more elegant and dressed-up surroundings. US designer lines are also featuring the fashion popularized by its use as an accent for the Chanel collection a few years back., If you're not hopping around in your Birkenstocks or your Kork-Ease variation (a big-bottomed sandal with crisscrossing vamp straps), you're probably in your clogs. The beat goes on. It's interesting [...]

bead it Echoes of the '60s continue to reverberate throughout the fashion world. Remember love beads? They're back. Nobody's calling them that but wooden bead trim is spotted throughout spring [...]

Spiritosa is a new line of casual sandals and flats by d'Rossana, [unkeyable] Made in Italy, the fine features nubuch raffia and spandex combinations of unit-bottomed slings, A-lines end closed-up [...]

Dateline: Milan MILAN (FNS) -- Milan designers threw their two cents into the great hemline debate and it added up to a pot of gold for most. For now the [...]

Who is the King of the Tartans? If you said Isaac Mizrahi you get a gold shoe. A couple of years ago he made plaids top fashion news. He wasn't [...]

Going Forward If you want to know what's going on in the shoe industry this season, just take a step outside. Footwear is heading for the outdoors as lug-bottom oxfords, [...]

Kerry Norton, who wowed judges with her eco-friendly shoes in the previous challenge, was eliminated last Monday from FN's Shoe Star contest, leaving four finalists to compete for a design [...]

Many aspiring footwear designers might think their first creations out of school will earn them praise, rewards and their own footwear collections, but the reality is that most will have [...]

The first shoe has dropped in the FN Shoe Star competition. Nervous energy filled the air on Feb. 6 as the seven FN Shoe Star finalists lined up in the [...]

As the comfort category gets more serious about promoting good health - from head to toe - a growing number of brands are looking to brush up on their knowledge [...]

Byline: Samantha Conti Ask the Neapolitan shoe designer Ernesto Esposito about his vast modern and contemporary art collection, and he admits he hasn't seen most of it for years. 'I [...]

HEELING WISTERIA LANE Eileen Shields has been busy consolidating her status as go-to designer for 'Desperate Housewives' - and she couldn't be more pleased. 'I have been a religious fan [...]

Just in time for next season's sultry weather, a range of men's labels are serving up huaraches - a refreshing alternative to the market's wave of performance-driven looks. The fashionable, [...]

Feeling is believing, and believing leads to buying. That's why MBT Physiological Footwear - a line of rocker-bottom shoes touted to improve posture, relieve back pain and even reduce cellulite [...]

LOS ANGELES - Teva is taking a new direction for spring '07. For the first time, the brand, a division of Goleta, Calif.-based Deckers, will introduce product and marketing specifically [...]

NEW YORK - In the last year, a number of footwear retailers have set out to make a splash with the interior design of their stores. To do it, they [...]

LOS ANGELES - Under pressure to remain competitive in a rapidly shifting retail environment, vendors are adapting to a radically altered playing field heading into spring '07. As they shift [...]

Luc Berjen has come a long way since its early days, when black shoes with elasticized stretch uppers were standard fare. Designers Olivia Morris (left) and Rosie Wallin (right) have [...]

Forget the galoshes. Parents are warming to a new kind of foul-weather footwear: styles made from breathable waterproof materials. Long accustomed to fabrics treated with moisture-repelling membranes in their own [...]

Children's designers have taken familiar fasteners from apparel and turned them into one of fall's freshest decorative details. Buttons are adding a dash of fashion to girls' footwear, popping up [...]

FAB FLAT What do Celia Cruz, Carmen Miranda, Andalusia, Spain, and a 15th-century church door have in common? They all served as inspiration for Manolo Blahnik's gorgeous Arunium (sketch at [...]

MUNICH, Germany - Vendors and retailers attending the recent ISPO show here were upbeat about 2006, noting that key trends and major sporting events such as this summer's World Cup [...]

As Nike makes history with its product designer chief executive, Mike Exon asks if more designers can aspire to have power in the boardroom You'd be forgiven for missing the [...]

Global warming aside, the winter months have traditionally boosted sales of insulated footwear across the country. Retailers report that consumers are looking for shoes that will keep feet warm and [...]

Athletic and action-sports companies are embracing their inner Van Goghs. Hoping to offer edgy product, several players are partnering with emerging artists to add some pizzazz to their collections. For [...]

The breaking stories. The power brokers. The legendary designers. The scandals. The success stories and the failures. For over 60 years, any event of significance in the footwear world has [...]