footwear
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Stepping up
From his new office at Nike’s HQ, the design chief of the world’s leading sports brand reveals its plans for the future of products that bear the famous swoosh.
Booting up
Shoe-maker RM Williams is a big Australian exporter. Now it wants to bring its production back home.
Step to it
Durable, desirable shoes can’t just be cobbled together. The team at Glent knows that every footprint is unique and crafts its loafers accordingly.
Business
The leatherware company who joined Office, mail-order wine and a Taiwanese airline on the rise.
Stepping forward
In Veneto, despite economic uncertainty, traditions hold on and Italians stay sharp in style and business.
Sole focus
Hit the ground running this autumn in style-savvy trainers that are fit for the city.
Business
Japan goes west to seek new openings in Russia, how retail is helping bushfire-afflicted New South Wales and the shoes start-up putting a spring in your step.
Still head over heels
Pierre Hardy, Hermès' shoe supremo since 1990, argues that the high heel's rumoured death is premature — and that women now wear them purely for themselves, not for anyone else.
Bouncing back
With its new rubber shoe designs, footwear company Moonstar has both rediscovered its manufacturing pride and found a new fan base.
Downward trend
Killer heels, once status symbols, are now conspicuously absent from fashion-show front rows (and runways). How did they become out of step with the modern world?
