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Pierre Cardin dies at 98
The French designer Pierre Cardin died at the age of 98 at the American hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. He was born in Italy, but to escape fascism his family moved to France when he was two. Cardin “never forgot his origins while having an unconditional love for France,” his ...
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ArticleFormer Zappos head Tony Hsieh dies
Tony Hsieh, who ran the footwear and clothing online retailer Zappos.com for about two decades, died at the age of 46 due to complications from injuries sustained in a house fire. The fire broke out on Nov. 18 in New London, Connecticut, and Hsieh died on Nov. 27 from the ...
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ArticleHarald Neisser, industry veteran and former Rohde managing director, dies at 68
Shoe expert and industry insider Harald Neisser died on Sept. 20, after a serious illness. Serving most recently as a consultant for the German firm Erich Rohde, where he was previously managing director, Neisser was 68 years old. He was active in the shoe industry for decades in different capacities ...
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ArticleBob Gore, inventor of Gore-Tex, has died
Robert W. “Bob” Gore, chairman emeritus of the board of directors of W. L. Gore & Associates, died on Sept. 17 at the age of 83. Gore sat on the board of his family’s materials science company for 57 years, 30 of them as chairman, and served as president from ...
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CIC vice-president Sergio Panossian passes away
Sergio Panossian, the vice-president of the Argentinean footwear association Cámara de la Industria del Calzado (CIC), has passed away. Panossian was a popular and influential representative of the country’s footwear industry. His family indicated that he was victim of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Martin Krist, former head of Esprit’s shoe division, dies at 55
Martin Krist, former head of Esprit’s shoe division and an innovative leader in the shoe industry, died unexpectedly in June at the age of 55. Krist was with Esprit for over 17 years, from July 1998 until the beginning of 2016, shaping the fashion manufacturer’s shoe business strategy for many ...
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Sergio Rossi dies at 84
The iconic footwear designer Sergio Rossi, founder of the eponymous firm, died on April 2. He had been admitted to the intensive care unit of the Bufalini hospital in Cesena, Italy, after contracting the novel coronavirus, which has heavily affected the country. The son of a shoemaker, Rossi was born ...
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Obituary for Luciano Mercalli
Luciano Mercalli, head of Cerim, has died after being infected with the novel coronavirus. Cerim, based in the Italian town of Vigevano, specializes in machines for the production of footwear. Mercalli, 78, fell ill after attending Simac Tanning Tech 2020, the trade fair that was held in Milan on Feb ...
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Obituary for Bob Campbell
Bob Campbell, founder and chief executive of BBC International, died on Feb. 17. He was 82. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Campbell spent more than 60 years in footwear, 20 of them at Kinney Shoes and its parent, F.W. Woolworth. He has been praised as a man of vision. In 1975, ...
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The founder of Over Teak, Cosimo Damiano Vitobello, has passed...
The founder of Over Teak, Cosimo Damiano Vitobello, has passed away at the age of 79. Vitobello founded Over Teak in Barletta, in the Italian region of Puglia, in 1990. He opened his first store, where shoes were manually crafted, back in 1958, when he was only 18. Over Teak ...
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Raymond Massaro, the legendary French cobbler, has died in Paris...
Raymond Massaro, the legendary French cobbler, has died in Paris at the age of 90. He was the grandson of Sébastien Massaro, who founded his workshop in 1894 at 2, rue de la Paix in Paris. Raymond Massaro took over the business in 1957. Also in the 1950s, he designed ...
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Georgy Bidegain passed away on March 27. He was 85...
Georgy Bidegain passed away on March 27. He was 85 years old. He was an uncle of Jean-Pierre Bidegain, the well-known journalist and publisher who recently retired. Together with his brother José Bidegain, he built up Babybotte, the well-known brand of shoes for toddlers between the ages of one and ...
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Paul Golbert, the founder of Pajar Canada, passed away on...
Paul Golbert, the founder of Pajar Canada, passed away on Dec. 25, at the age of 92. Pajar Canada, founded in 1963, is a five-generation family-owned footwear and outerwear company based in Montreal. Golbert was born in France in a shoemaking family, and emigrated to Canada in the 1950s, starting ...
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Anthony Chaloub, who had been running the Chaloub Group together...
Anthony Chaloub, who had been running the Chaloub Group together with his younger brother Patrick since 2011, died in Paris at the age of 63 after a long fight against cancer. He was praised for his honesty, his humility, his kindness and his humanitarian spirit. Founded in 1955 by his ...
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Wanda Miletti Ferragamo, the widow of Salvatore Ferragamo, has died...
Wanda Miletti Ferragamo, the widow of Salvatore Ferragamo, has died at the age of 96. Wanda took over from her late husband the eponymous Florence-based brand after he died in 1960, when she was 39 years old. She was 24 years his junior. Salvatore Ferragamo was known for making custom-made ...
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Robert Siff, a veteran of the footwear industry and a...
Robert Siff, a veteran of the footwear industry and a former president and lifetime director of Two Ten Footwear Foundation, passed away on Sept. 11. He was 94, and had fought a 20-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. During his career, Siff served as president and chief executive of B-W Footwear, ...
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We have been informed that Don McCarthy, a figurehead of...
We have been informed that Don McCarthy, a figurehead of the British shoe retail sector, die on July 21 of cancer, aged 63. After working for many years at the former Stead & Simpson group, where he ran some of its Ravel and Stylo stores, he founded in 1991 a ...
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Suspected of having committed suicide, Kate Spade, 55, was found...
Suspected of having committed suicide, Kate Spade, 55, was found dead on June 5 in her apartment in New York. Her husband and partner, Andy Spade, told The New York Times that she suffered of depression. Together, they launched two years ago a new brand of shoes and accessories, Frances ...
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Walter Fink, former owner of the German Fink Schuhe +...
Walter Fink, former owner of the German Fink Schuhe + Sport retail chain of 60 shoe and sporting goods stores, passed away at the age of 87. Born in 1930, Fink joined his father's shoe retail store in 1960. He focused on the expansion of the company before he left ...
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Binsar Marpoung has passed away at the age of 79....
Binsar Marpoung has passed away at the age of 79. He had been the secretary general of Aprisindo, the Indonesian footwear industry association, since 2009.
