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...The painter Tesfaye Urgessa will represent Ethiopia at this year’s Venice Biennale in the country’s first pavilion (Palazzo Bollani, April 20-November 24)....
...With its ownership of Shoe Palace, which has a big presence on the US west coast, and DTLR, which is established in the east, JD is hoping to fill in the gaps in the US market....
...Others, such as Sweaty Betty, now owned by US shoe group Wolverine Worldwide, have been acquired....
...Inc., a footwear company based in California, agreed to settle charges for failing to disclose payments for the benefit of its executives and their immediate family members....
...One featured Lee’s character “blabbing about Michael, the man”, while the other was “about Jordan, the shoe”....
...Listings expected soon in Europe include Permira-backed Golden Goose, the Italian luxury sports shoe brand, and Puig, the Spanish beauty and fashion group behind brands including Charlotte Tilbury....
...Today, Nike’s competition goes beyond traditional rivals like Adidas as newer, more nimble shoe companies take market share....
...The ebullient Jean-Charles Boisset of Burgundy arrived at Raymond in 2009, Chanel Inc bought St Supéry in 2015 and the next year the Tesserons of Ch Pontet Canet in Bordeaux bought Robin Williams’ winery...
...In Knight’s 2016 memoir, Shoe Dog, he praised the golfer, and detailed a particularly tender moment after the untimely death of Knight’s son Matthew in a scuba diving accident....
...(Glimpsed from afar, a “micro” portrait of George IV at the Brighton Pavilion, shimmering with precious stones, has the depth of a painting.)...
...Knight reserved his highest praise for the golfer in his 2016 memoir, Shoe Dog. When other sponsors pared back following Woods’ infidelity scandal of 2009, Nike stood firm....
...At the mid-level, a cashmere style in a muted shade from Sheep Inc, John Smedley or — my favourite — Begg x Co will quickly become a staple of your wardrobe....
...This is the theme that Jefferies analyst tackle in a report they published earlier today, titled Alts: The Next Shoe to Drop?...
...Chief among them is reviving growth in its North American market, where it faces stiff competition from running shoe start-up brands such as Hoka....
...Deckers Outdoor, whose distinct ugly-shoe empire includes Uggs, Hoka dad sneakers and Tevas sandals, has also enjoyed booming sales and share prices....
...Citi’s law firm group started in 1971 after two of its private bankers had the idea that partners at so-called white-shoe law firms in New York could help with referrals to ultra-wealthy clients....
...Gear, another shoe retailer he had founded, Skechers now has a market cap of more than $8bn. Robert, as a result, is very rich....
...Citi’s pursuit of hotshot lawyers started in 1971 when two of its private bankers had the brilliant idea to court partners from white-shoe law firms whom they figured had rich clients they could refer to...
...In its analysts’ call, Nike singled out the running shoe business as “a competitive battlefield”. Here is it is feeling the heat from upstart brands including Hoka....
...“So there’s obviously someone still using shoe polish . . . ” If anyone knows the state of Britain’s shoe leather it’s Romi Topi, founder of TopShine in Burlington Arcade, who has been deftly polishing...
...But the rollercoaster valuations of other shoe brands like Dr. Martens and Crocs raises doubts over whether any brand is immune to fashion trends, the FT’s John Gapper notes....
...In Unhedged’s continuing coverage of when-will-the-next-shoe-in-commercial-real-estate-drop, this is an angle we hadn’t covered: the possibility that non-bank CRE lenders would exit the market....
...Ben Affleck has a more upbeat vision: the entire world buying the same basketball shoe....
...The shoe became an instant phenomenon, bringing in $126mn in its first year. It also sparked a transition from wearing kicks on the court to wearing kicks just about everywhere....
...Birkenstock, the shoe company, is gearing up for a September IPO of at least $1.5bn. Arm, SoftBank’s chipmaking company, is hoping for one of at least $5bn in September, too....
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