All Trade fairs & conferences articles – Page 15
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Who's Next Première Classe, the French fashion exhibition in Paris,...
Who's Next Première Classe, the French fashion exhibition in Paris, reported an increase in attendance for the first time in three years. According to the organizers, the number of visitors grew by 10.1 percent to 42,122. The reports from the show were generally positive, except for the fact that there ...
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Manolo Blahnik is starring in a new documentary film, “Manolo,...
Manolo Blahnik is starring in a new documentary film, “Manolo, The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards.” Meanwhile, a retrospective exhibition of more than 200 styles by the Spanish 74-year-old shoe designer is travelling around the world. After stops in Milan and St. Petersburg, it is now being shown in ...
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Birkenstock made a big splash in New York City with...
Birkenstock made a big splash in New York City with its Birkenstock Box in association with Barneys New York, which designed the interior of the freight container and co-created a limited-edition line of Birkenstock shoes and added some of its own merchandise. The company's new mobile retail concept remained open ...
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Footwear Friends will host its annual awards ceremony for young...
Footwear Friends will host its annual awards ceremony for young designers in London on Oct. 18. The jury will meet on Sept. 28 to examine the proposals, which are said to of “extraordinarily good quality” this time. Dune, Clarks, Pentland, the University of Northampton and the British Footwear Association will ...
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The Portuguese city of Porto will host the 20th International...
The Portuguese city of Porto will host the 20th International Technical Footwear Congress of UITIC, the International Union of Shoe Industry Technicians, next May 16-18. A committee steered by the Portuguese shoes industry association (Apiccaps) and Portuguese footwear technology center, CTCP will organize the convention and its program, which will ...
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Lineapelle New York, which was held at the Metropolitan Pavilion...
Lineapelle New York, which was held at the Metropolitan Pavilion on July 18-19, hosted 120 exhibitors, an increase of 20 percent versus the previous edition, and welcomed 1,300 visitors. Lineapelle will be back in New York from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1, 2018. Meanwhile, the trade show will hold its ...
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Design Attack, which was a component of the former GDS,...
Design Attack, which was a component of the former GDS, will run as an independent two-day event for new brands, starting on the eve of Gallery Shoes on Aug. 26. It will be staged at 114 Kölnerstrasse in Düsseldorf. Tag it, the private label show of volume suppliers that ran ...
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An exhibition entitled “The seduction of footwear: Italian glamour” showcased...
An exhibition entitled “The seduction of footwear: Italian glamour” showcased Italian footwear in Seoul on July 10-12. The event was promoted by Assocalzaturifici ahead of theMicam, which will be held in Milan in September. The exhibition was organized alongside “La moda italiana a Seoul,” the trade fair for Italian fashion ...
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Birkenstock organized for the first time a special two-day event...
Birkenstock organized for the first time a special two-day event for buyers in the Tuileries Gardens during the recent Paris Fashion Week. It also exhibited at the Seek and Premium shows during the recent Berlin Fashion Week. It has confirmed its participation in the new German trade show, Gallery Shoes, ...
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Pitti Uomo attracted fewer attendees this past June . Around...
Pitti Uomo attracted fewer attendees this past June . Around 19,000 buyers attended the 92nd edition for the spring/summer collections, down from 20,500 in June 2016. The edition which was held in Florence on June 13-16, 2017 attracted more than 30,000 visitors overall. The number of Italian buyers dropped by ...
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Pure London has announced that it is adding a “footwear...
Pure London has announced that it is adding a “footwear destination,” a dedicated upstairs floor, to the forthcoming edition of the women's wear show, due to be held at London's Olympia fairgrounds on July 23-25. Footwear brands returning to the event include Birkenstock alongside Alpe, Anuschka, Nero Giardini, Saz, Unisa ...
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Attendance at the 88th edition of the Expo Riva Schuh...
Attendance at the 88th edition of the Expo Riva Schuh show on Italy's Lake Garda on June 10-13 was virtually flat with a total of 11,224 registered visitors. The business climate was described as relatively positive. The organizers mentioned the presence of a big delegation of French buyers as well ...
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About 450 brands have booked space at Première Classe, the...
About 450 brands have booked space at Première Classe, the footwear and accessories show scheduled for Sept. 8-11 in Paris
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A trade mission to Russia involving 34 Brazilian shoe brands...
A trade mission to Russia involving 34 Brazilian shoe brands could generate business worth more than $4 million for the South American country. Abicalçados, the footwear industry association, undertook the trade mission at the start of June. According to Abicalçados, the companies made contact with around 300 buyers with most ...
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Bookings for the Sept. 22-24 edition of the Momad Shoes...
Bookings for the Sept. 22-24 edition of the Momad Shoes fair in Madrid have already reached 7,000 square meters, exceeding the occupancy level of the March 2017 edition. Several brands will return to the show, including Hannibal Laguna and Paredes, which just got a prize. The buyers' program of the ...
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“Italian Shoes, European Footprint” is the title of the exhibition...
“Italian Shoes, European Footprint” is the title of the exhibition that opened in Brussels, in the premises of the European Parliament, on May 30. The event is promoted by Assocalzaturifici in collaboration with Colosseum, a cultural association based in Rome. The exhibition, which showcases the evolution of shoes across history, ...
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The second edition of the European Shoeshow in Cologne, organized...
The second edition of the European Shoeshow in Cologne, organized by Wellfairs, has been cancelled. The show was supposed to take place on Sept. 24-25, but only 30 exhibitors registered for the show. Observers feel that suppliers may want to see the results of the first edition of the new ...
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Like Couromoda, the other major Brazilian shoe trade show, Francal...
Like Couromoda, the other major Brazilian shoe trade show, Francal will take place at a new venue at Expo Center Norte in São Paulo on July 2-5
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Bread & Butter, the three-day consumer-oriented style and culture festival...
Bread & Butter, the three-day consumer-oriented style and culture festival being held in Berlin, Germany, will expand this year to feature more than 40 brands and more space. Organized by Zalando, which bought the rights to the former trade show, the consumer-facing trend show attracted 20,000 people at its first ...
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New national collective exhibitions by companies from South Africa, Russia...
New national collective exhibitions by companies from South Africa, Russia and Bulgaria are going to participate in the Expo Riva Schuh show starting at Riva del Garda in Northern Italy tomorrow. They will join groups from China, India, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Indonesia, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Tunisia and Turkey at the ...
