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Eager to try out spring's strappy, block-heeled and open-toed footwear, some local fashion mavens have come up with inventive ways to brave the cold...
...universities could add their names to the membership list of a group like the Fair Labor Association, a conglomerate of human rights, labor and religious organizations and some apparel and footwear companies formed last year and supported by the White House. The association enforces a code of conduct for clothing manufacturers to prevent the use of sweatshop labor...
FEET FIRST: The sneaker is the only new type of shoe to have been invented in the past 300 years. Platforms (unlike, say, Peter Frampton) had a life before the 1970s. Learn this and more at "Shoes: A Lexicon of Style," a quirky exhibition of contemporary footwear on display now through April 17 at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. An eponymous companion book is available from Rizzoli...
Hundreds of companies marketing clothes and accessories dedicated to the "board-sports" life-style are operating in Velcro Valley. They range from Oakley, the $200 million sunglasses-and-footwear firm housed in a futuristic, $47 million hilltop bunker, to smaller fry like Black Flys, Split and Volcom, crowded into Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach industrial parks...
...direct light throughout the course of the day. Sadly, the towels never caught on, nor did the all-hemp suit Harrelson had designer Giorgio Armani create for the 1997 Oscars. Undeterred, Harrelson unveiled the Headwaters Hiker earlier this year, the first in a line of environment-friendly footwear made entirely from hemp. Wearers should note that "mistakenly" smoking your shoe is illegal in all 50 states...