THE DAILY 5 – ALL ABOUT THE GOOD NEWS!!
by Richard Salmon
The Daily 5 All About the Good News!! Happy Monday Dr Marten’s classic 8-eye Pascal boot is featured in all black crocodile embossed leather for SS10…check ‘em out Inspired by the city of Tokyo, 14 new sneaker designs will be made exclusively for release at the Gucci Tokyo temporary shop…look Finish Line announced today the continuation of its partnership with Soles4Souls, the international s…
THE DAILY 5 – ALL ABOUT THE GOOD NEWS!!
by Richard Salmon
The Daily 5 All About the Good News!! Hi-tops shmi-tops….take a look at how what a SUPRA has coming up for summer Okabashi brands will be releasing a shoe made of 100% recycled materials for Earth day…more details As Earth Day, a day designed to inspire awareness of the environment, celebrates its 40th anniversary, the latest trend in sustainable fashion has emerged: the recyclable shoe…read mo…
The Daily 5, It’s all about the good news!
by JULIA
Michael Jackson’s famous moonwalking shoes will be auctioned off in London and are expected to go for around 20k. I was a little surprised by that number as I thought some crazy MJ fan would be willing to pay more than that. The Sebago brand shoes have “Rock my world Billie Jean” written on the sole and were worn by him the day before the 9/11 attacks for an NYC concert. Too bad proceeds won’t bene…
PrettyBOY’s Sneaker picks of the Week!
by JULIA
These are “Dope” for sure. Check out the posting HERE! I am late with this again, but it’s better late than never!! Brandon has some hot hot hot shoes on his site right now and I tried to get most of them up! He obviously has a think for Nike, but I understand why…actually…there is a lot of Nike in general all over this site today! Besides seeing what’s happening with Nike, I al…
Why Footwear? By Alan Lugo
by Alan Lugo
I would like to introduce our newest Shoebizness.com contributor, Alan Lugo. Alan is a designer at Hush Puppies/Wolverine World Wide and he stumbled across Shoebizness thanks to William Weiss. He sent me an interesting email asking me “where are my men’s designer contributors”? Well, I had just finished discussing with someone how I wished designers were as outgoing as sales reps because I de…
The Daily 5, All about the good news!!
by JULIA
The Customs and Border Protection in Norfolk, Va discovered $3.8 million pairs of fake Gucci’s during a routine inspection of arriving shipments. As one would expect the shoes were arriving from China and there were 472 cases of them!! Nice work to the CBP!!! That’s a lot of fake Gucci’s! I wonder what they do with all those shoes?? Read the full article HERE. Benjamin Lovell Shoes , a retailer wi…
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…
