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ArticleSioux, Puma, Adidas, Buffalo, Jenah St. take top honours at PETA Germany’s Vegan Fashion Awards 2020
Sioux, Puma, Adidas, Buffalo and Jenah St. are among the winners of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) Germany’s Vegan Fashion Awards 2020, announced last week. Aimed at promoting animal-friendly and environmentally conscious fashion, the animal rights organization’s awards were presented this year for the seventh time ...
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Sonra to release a sneaker with Porsche Design
Porsche Design has collaborated with the German Sonra brand and its chief executive, the designer Hikmet Sugör, on a limited-edition luxury sneaker. Planned as a “collector’s item for street style lovers,” the Sonra Porsche Design Edition takes its cues from Porsche’s 912 model car, which is associated with “many emotional ...
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ArticleTexon unveils new 100% recyclable insole tech
Texon, the producer of materials for the footwear industry, has unveiled a new insole technology that is based on 85 percent recycled polyester (rPET) and is 100 percent recyclable. Texon Ecoline is produced with a special fusion-bonded process that enhances the internal bond structure of the material’s fibers, which are ...
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News briefsConverse changes eyewear licensee
Converse has changed its eyewear licensee and entered an exclusive, long-term global agreement with the American company Marchon, which replaces the Italian company De Rigo. The sun and optical collections designed under the new partnership will roll out globally at the beginning of January 2021. Taking cues from the brand’s ...
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Wolverine releases a bourbon-themed boot
Wolverine has collaborated with Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery of Kentucky on a limited-edition boot, timing its release on Oct. 1 to coincide with that of the distillery’s bourbons. Made in the U.S., the boot is a cap-toe 1000 Mile silhouette with Horween Cavalier Squash leather, gold hardware and a ...
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News briefsNew Tencel fibers receive CarbonNeutral certification
Under the Tencel brand, the Austrian firm Lenzing is releasing Lyocell and Modal fibers that have received CarbonNeutral certification. In other words, they comply with the carbon-neutral protocol set up – originally in 2002 – by Natural Capital Partners. In Lenzing’s summation, “the emissions associated with the fibers’ production, manufacturing ...
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Merrell releases eco-friendly undyed line
Merrell’s new line, the Undyed Collection, has white, undyed uppers made of partially recycled mesh and outsoles made of natural rubber. According to the brand, when measured against factory-supplied averages, the Undyed Collection saves about 80 percent of the water and 50 percent of the energy expended in the production ...
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Camper in collaboration with Tencel for sustainable collection
Camper has joined forces with Tencel, a brand of the Austrian chemical group Lenzing, to produce a shoe collection using sustainable Lyocell fibers. The Spanish-based company has redesigned its Right and Upright boot and bootie to include Lyocell fibres derived from sustainably-grown wood sources. For the collection, the fiber has ...
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News briefsReebok to release a plant-based running shoe
In October, Reebok will be releasing the Forever Floatride Grow, a running shoe with uppers derived from eucalyptus trees, midsoles from sustainably cultivated castor beans, sock liners from bloom-algae foam and outsoles from plant rubber. According to Footwear News, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has conferred some sort of ...
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ArticleAnt Group debuts cross-border trade platform
Chinese fintech company Ant Group, part of e-commerce giant Alibaba, launched an international trade and financial service platform powered by its blockchain-based technology solution AntChain to facilitate the cross-border sale of products and services by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and to reduce costs for financial institutions serving these companies. ...
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Reebok partners with Maison Margiela
The French luxury fashion house Maison Margiela and Reebok have started to develop a joint product line, and the partnership is “set to span several seasons,” the companies say. The first products are scheduled for a launch on Sept. 22 in the spirit of “the cyber-industrial revolution” at the Maison ...
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Olukai updates two of its sneakers
OluKai, producer of Hawaii-inspired footwear, has taken two models of beach sneaker, the Lae’ahi for men and the Pehuea for women, and substituted full-grain leather for the mesh of the upper. These new, more upscale variants are called the Laeʻahi Lī Ili and Pehuea Lī Ili. Both have OluKai’s Drop-in ...
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Obuv Rossii offers pick-up points for Wildberries clients
Obuv Rossii has concluded an agreement under which the clients of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, can pick up their orders in the stores of the Russian footwear group. The first pick-up points have started to operate in 100 Obuv Rossii locations in Siberia and the Far East. By the ...
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ArticleLGBTQ collections become mainstream for the fashion, sportswear industry
The LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and queer) fashion market has been growing over the last decade. In recent years, an unprecedented number of mainstream brands have begun to release LGBTQ collections.
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Ecco wins German Design Award for two models
Ecco has won the German Design Council’s annual German Design Award in the “Excellent Product Design” category for its Biom 2.0 trail shoe and its Exowrap all-terrain sandal. The competition for the awards came from more than 5,400 projects from 63 countries. The Biom 2.0 is a hybrid urban and ...
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ArticleSalomon introduces a recyclable sneaker and sets up a recycling network
After three years of research and development, the French outdoor brand Salomon has presented the recyclable Index.01 running shoe, which will be on the market from February 2021. “To create the Index.01, we had to construct a shoe using only two materials that could later be separated and recycled,” explained ...
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News briefsClarks celebrates its Somerset roots in new campaign
Clarks is celebrating its origins in the campaign of its autumn/winter 2020 collection called “Then. Now. Always.” The company was founded in 1825 in Street, in the English county of Somerset, where it is still based. The campaign was shot in Somerset with the contribution of 12 artists and ...
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Converse in partnership with Moncler and Hiroshi Fujiwara
Converse has entered a collaboration with 7 Moncler Fragment, a partnership between Moncler, the Italian producer of luxury down jackets, and the Japanese streetwear designer Hiroshi Fujiwara. Under the collaboration, known as 7 Moncler Fragment + Converse Chuck 70, Fujiwara has designed two Chuck 70 low sneakers as part of ...
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Polygiene and Dr. Scholl’s to team up for antibacterial and odor-free insoles
Polygiene has announced that, moving forward, Dr. Scholl’s insoles will combine two Polygiene technologies, including the antibacterial Stays Fresh Technology and the Odor Crunch treatment. The Dr. Scholl’s Massaging Gel Work Insole, designed for people who stay on their feet all day long, will be the first product to incorporate ...
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Directa Plus's G+ graphene obtains patent for rubber outsoles
Directa Plus, an Italian producer and supplier of graphene nanoplatelets based products for use in consumer and industrial markets, has been granted a patent in Italy for its G+ graphene that aims to improve the performance of rubber-based shoe outsoles. The patent covers both the formula containing G+ and the ...
