The Daily Five – It’s All About The Good News!
by Elizabeth Snoddon
Alice + Olivia has found its wonderland, they have partnered with Shopbop.com! Their footwear collection for spring ’11 will debut on the site. The styles, priced at $195 for the flat and $245 for the wedge, are sold at Shopbop. Alice + Olivia previously partnered with Payless ShoeSource on a lower-priced line of footwear, but this marks its first independent offering of shoes. So all of you Alice + Oliv…
The Daily 5 – All about the good news!!
by JULIA
The Daily 5 – All about the good news!! Dansko introduces today thirty-three new and exhilarating styles at Footwear etc., a well-established retailer of high quality. The new spring arrivals are available online now and in Footwear etc. retail stores. “We are thrilled to be one of the first retailers to offer Dansko’s new styles for Spring,” says Andrew Monarch, District Manager for Footwear etc. Soles4So…
Takken’s Shoes – Not your every day retailer!
by JULIA
I noticed something different about the twitter feeds coming from Takken’s. Rather than promoting what shoes they have on sale, they often post links and share news about issues in their community and accross the country. Everything from the economy to crime. It caught my eye and I was curious to find out more about them. I was able to get on a call with Cris and Marc Takken and Rachel Miller who is the person behind…
Shoebiz Trivia
by Jorge the Intern
Of what type of shoe did Mr. Gunn from Project Runaway make this remark? ”I have to say, I think they’re much more than a trend,” Gunn says, “and I think that they are so fully embedded into the culture that they’re not going anywhere, and if anything, the number of wearers will expand. Once one experiences a certain degree of comfort, one doesn’t want to go back to anything that…
The Walking Company
by Jorge the Intern
This is the second store Jorge visited for us. We have one more coming to you shortly! I have heard a lot about The Walking Company but actually have never been in one of their stores….I am thinking Jorge is a keeper! Strolling along the RiverWalk in Downtown is definitely one of the finer things to do here in New Orleans. Keep on strolling through and you’ll land your feet right in the gorgeous riverside mall wher…
Results for Companies that Started out of the Trunk of a Car!!
by JULIA
Last week I posted a question about what companies are known to have started out of the trunk of a car….and even better what kind of car?? Well, I received quite a few emails and here is the list: Kenneth Cole-Actually started out of a truck. It’s a pretty cool story. Apparently the reason the company is called Kenneth Cole Productions is so they could park a big truck on the street in front of the Hilton duri…
Shoe companies that started out of the trunk of a car…
by JULIA
It seems to be the story I hear often… “Our company started out of the trunk of a car”. It got me thinking about how many companies started this way and when discussing it with a new shoebiz contributor yesterday, she took it one step further and said, “wouldn’t it be fun to know what kind of car they started in?” YES it would! So here are the 4 companies I know started out of the trun…
Cool Booths
by JULIA
We definitely didn’t see the massive booths as from years past at any of the shows this year. The common theme as anyone would expect was to cut back and scale down. However, we still saw interesting, creative and very cool booths. I thought I would mention a few. Of course, in typical Ed Hardy style, their booth was over the top with more shoes stuck to the outside of the structure than were on display on the inside.…
