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ArticleCCILU open to partnerships on new green material
CCILU, the Taiwanese brand of lifestyle footwear, has launched Greenplax, a new ecological raw material for outsoles, insoles and upper fabric upcycled from plastic bottles. The announcement is accompanied by a $20,000 crowdfunding and marketing campaign on Kickstarter for a shoe model called Renee, said to incorporate the equivalent of ...
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Zalando extends Connected Retail aid package to Poland, Sweden, Spain
From July, Zalando will be extending its offer to waive commissions on its Connected Retail program to Poland, Sweden and Spain. The initiative, which was originally aimed at supporting brick-and-mortar stores during the coronavirus crisis, was introduced in Germany and the Netherlands on April 1. The offer will run until ...
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Havaianas launches first collection for the street
Havaianas, the Brazilian flip flop brand owned by Alpargatas, has launched its first style created for the street rather than the beach in collaboration with the Japanese urban fashion brand mastermind JAPAN. The sandals have a square base, rather than the brand’s traditional rounded shape, a thick rubber sole and ...
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Aldi launches climate-neutral sneaker
The German food discounter Aldi Süd has developed a climate-neutral sneaker under its own brand, Crane Pure, which will be on sale from June 10. The sneaker is made partly from recycled PET bottles, and the CO² emissions caused by production, transport and distribution are offset by a certified climate ...
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Benetton inks sneaker deal with UBC
Benetton Group has signed a “multi-year” licensing deal with and Italian sneaker producer, United Brands Company (UBC), for the design, production and distribution of new sneaker collections for men, women and children under its United Colors of Benetton brand. UBC will also handle the distribution in countries in which it ...
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Sebago in co-branding partnership with Baracuta
Sebago, the brand owned by Italy’s BasicNet, has joined forces with British fashion group Baracuta for a new spring-summer 2020 capsule collection known as “Sebago with Baracuta”. The collection hit stores in late May after a preview at the Pitti Immagine Uomo trade fair in June 2019 and consists of ...
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Buffalo to launch vegan shoe collection
Buffalo, the German footwear brand acquired by Deichmann in October 2016, launched its first vegan shoe models, developed in cooperation with the designer Marina Hoermanseder. The collection for the forthcoming autumn/winter season consists of five shoe models that are wholly made with vegan materials. They will be on sale from ...
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Grendene resumes partial production in Ceará state
On June 1, the Brazilian footwear manufacturer Grendene resumed production at its plants in Crato and Fortaleza, both in the state of Ceará, which had been temporarily closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. On June 8, Grendene expects to resume production in Sobral, also located in Ceará and where it ...
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Adidas teams up with Allbirds
Adidas announced a collaboration with Allbirds, the well-known American brand of sustainable footwear, to develop the sport performance shoe with the lowest-ever carbon footprint. The project will involve exploring recyclable material resources as well as the use of renewable energies in manufacturing and transportation. Adidas said the project is part ...
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Caval to release shoes made of apple fibers
Caval, the Parisian brand that delights in asymmetry with its mismatched pairs of shoes, is launching a new unisex collection that trades leather for a vegan material called Pellemela (literally “apple skin”). The sole will be made in Portugal of 40 percent recycled rubber and the inserts in Spain from ...
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Vans helps retailers with “Foot the Bill” initiative
VF Corporation’s Vans brand is seeking to help the small skate shops that have underpinned its success and other local businesses weather the Covid-19 storm. Its “Foot the Bill” customization initiative – which involves the brand’s small business partners designing their own Vans and pocketing the net proceeds from their ...
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Crowdfunding delivers a new brand of vegan shoe
As Fashion Network reports, a two-year partnership between Lionel Le Floch, the designer behind the Le Flow footwear brand, and Carole Beauverger, co-founder of the showroom Showtime Paris, has produced a new brand of vegan shoes, Supergreen. The brand’s shoes are made of corn fiber, sourced from an Italian producer. ...
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Keen switches part of production in Thailand to face masks
Keen Footwear has converted a production line at one of its factories in Thailand to manufacture reusable and washable face masks. As part of its “Together we can help” campaign, the American outdoor footwear brand has donated 100,000 masks worldwide to people working in the retail industry. In Germany alone, ...
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Leomil to launch a Baby Shark collection
Through a licensing deal arranged by the WildBrain CPLG agency, Leomil has established a partnership with Nickelodeon, the American television channel, and Pinkfong, the brand that produced Baby Shark, to launch a new Baby Shark-branded collection. The first products will be available for the back-to-school season in Europe and the ...
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Allbirds introduces its first running shoe
Going in the same direction as Veja, the French brand of sustainable footwear that launched its firt running shoes at the Ispo show in Munich earlier this year, Allbirds, the brand that focuses on environment-friendly footwear, has released its first running shoe. The Tree Dasher is made with sugarcane, eucalyptus ...
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UNIC webinar on May 5 to discuss tannery reopening guidelines
UNIC-Lineapelle will be holding a webinar on May 5, from 16:00 to 17:00, to present the ”Protocol on the Reopening of Tanneries in Italy.” The Italian tanners’ association reached an agreement on the guidelines with the trade unions on April 21, in view of the resumption of manufacturing at the ...
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Burberry labels sustainability achievements
Burberry is rolling out new labeling globally to show how products meet sustainability criteria. The new, pistachio-colored labels provide information on how products meet so-called “positive attributes,” including the amount of recycled nature fibers in materials, delivery against carbon emissions standards and social policies such as paying workers a living ...
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Allbirds to label carbon footprint
Allbirds will be labeling all of its products with a carbon footprint. The ambition of the company is to get consumers to think about carbon while they shop, in the same way as they do when they look at nutritional labels with calories in grocery stores, the company said. Moving ...
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Legero United receives Austrian Ecolabel
Legero United, the Austrian-based footwear group that markets brands such as Legero, Superfit, Vios and Think, received the Austrian Ecolabel at the annual energy saving’s trade show in Wels in early March. The five-day event focused on ecology, renewable energy and energy efficiency. Legero’s women’s shoe brand and the Superfit ...
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Isa-Traesko signs licensing deal with Walt Disney
Isa-Traesko, the shoe manufacturer from Neumünster, Germany, has signed a footwear licensing deal with Walt Disney for Europe and Australia. According to the company, it has acquired the right to manufacture shoes and insoles under the Disney, Marvel and Lucas (Star Wars) brands and to distribute them in Europe and ...
