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When Rudi and Adi Dassler began hand making athletic-training shoes in 1924 in their family's laundry room in Herzogenaurach, Germany, they had no idea their efforts would someday lead to a full-fledged factory, Dassler Brothers Sports Shoe, producing more than 30 styles for 11 sports, including the first tennis sneaker. By 1936 the brothers were driving suitcases full of their coveted shoes to the Berlin Olympics, where they would persuade American Jesse Owens to sport their product. (He eventually won four gold medals wearing Dassler shoes.) Business boomed, and by the start of World...
...HARD IS IT TO PRODUCE AND MARKET AN ENTIRELY NON-LEATHER LINE OF ACCESSORIES? It's surprising to me that people cannot get their heads around a non-leather bag or shoe. They already exist out there, but unfortunately designers feel they have to slap a leather trim or sole on them. People need to start looking at the product, and if they like it, that's all that matters. If it has an ethical or ecological edge, that's a huge bonus. We address these questions in every other part of our lives except fashion. Mind-sets are changing...
Price, played by the charmingly bumbling Joel Edgerton (“Star Wars: Episode III”), had just left Northampton for the bright lights of London with his uptight girlfriend when he is brought back home to take over the family shoe factory after his father’s unexpected death—cue the pressure to live up to the expectations of dad’s ghost. As the business sinks into financial problems, Price unexpectedly meets Lola and soon is inspired to make sexy boots with heels that won’t break under the weight...
...electronically stimulated hysteria, an ersatz binge catered by press and television barons that will be followed some morning soon by a massive letdown and hangover. Or again, maybe Diana's too brief life and meteoric streak across the world's consciousness enraptured people by its mythic qualities. A ballet shoe tied last week to the railing outside Kensington Palace was inscribed, "You were a Cinderella at the Ball and now you are a Sleeping Beauty...
Barrios’ decision leaves Gerry Leone ’85, a former Kirkland resident who helped win the 2003 conviction of “shoe bomber” Richard Reid, running unopposed to be the top law enforcement official in the county that comprises Cambridge...