As Billy Joel sang Saturday night, “There’s no business like shoe business.” Overall I can’t say that the World Shoe Association seemed like a great show in Vegas. I think MAGIC, a week earlier, would have been a better trip. Luckily the materials show adjacent to it was eye opening. If anything, most of what [...]

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Most people don’t know that it takes more than an hour of labor to make most shoes and that they usually use lots of toxic adhesive. That’s what makes a “green and responsible shoe” a true challenge. Below is an attempt by Patagonia to present some of the benefits of globalization, while showing a [...]

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Every year I go to the ISPO, the largest sporting goods show in the world. ISPO is hosted at Messe Munchen. Being the location of the old airport, the fairgrounds are huge: 15 airplane hangers with 2 train stops. It even includes a pedestrian autobahn to get from one site to the other.

Wandering this [...]

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