Tag Archives: Shoe

Customer sues NYC shoe store Santoni North America over $7,000 shoes

A luxe Madison Avenue shoe shop tried to walk all over a well-heeled customer — asking nearly $7,000 for a custom order it repeatedly made incorrectly, the patron charges in a lawsuit. Justin Mills wanted a pair of handmade, $4,400 Italian shoes in the fall of 2019, before the pandemic struck, from Santoni North America, but never got what he …

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Is This FootJoy’s Most Exciting New Golf Shoe In Years?

The FootJoy Fuel golf shoe has today burst onto the scene and is already my early contender for most exciting shoe of 2022. Straight away you can probably see it’s a large leap away from the more traditional shoes that FootJoy is arguably more renowned for. To its credit, after the success of the Premiere Series and Traditions shoes in …

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Crocs Deal Gives Shoe Segment Innovation Boost

Fueled by a 1000% rally in its stock price since the March 2020 lows, the love ‘em or hate ‘em rubber clog-maker Crocs was able to do a major acquisition last week that will not only broaden its stable of products but will give it a stronger toehold in the super-hot comfy-casual footwear segment. In announcing its mostly cash $2.5 billion …

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With ‘shoe drop’ protests, parents preemptively oppose a school vaccination mandate

The empty pairs of shoes outside Ridgefield Park Junior-Senior High School provided arresting imagery. Work boots, sandals, soccer cleats and a toddler’s aqua shoes — each pair representing a child who would be absent from school if a COVID-19 vaccination mandate were put in place. Jennifer Schmitt, standing amid the rows of shoes on Wednesday night, said she’s all for …

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Shoe game: From big-money deals to Kobes, a look at how Jazz players choose their shoes

Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell exchanges his shoes with Hailey Black, 11, ahead of an NBA game against New Orleans Pelicans at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. (Shafkat Anowar, Deseret News ) Estimated read time: 5-6 minutes SALT LAKE CITY — Donovan Mitchell would like to make his case: It wasn’t the shoes. On …

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Nike just bought a virtual shoe company that makes NFTs and sneakers ‘for the metaverse’

One comparison I’ve heard repeatedly over the last year is that buying NFTs to “flex” on people in the metaverse is just like collecting sneakers, and now Nike is apparently trying to make sure it’s ready for the literal version of that possibility. The apparel giant just announced the acquisition of RTFKT Studios, which it calls “a leading brand that …

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Dr. Martens’ Fur-Lined Boots Are the Ultimate Winter Shoe

Scroll To See More Images Buying your first pair of Dr. Martens is basically a rite of passage, and from then on, it’s only the beginning of a lifelong shoe-lationship. I purchased my first pair of Docs a few years ago, and to this day, they’re my ride-or-die boots for everything from concerts (they passed the jumping test with flying …

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The Redemption Arc of Fashion’s Most Divisive Shoe

I remember my first pair of Crocs. Tell a lie, they were actually knock-offs, bought from a market stall on a packaged holiday to Spain when I was a pre-teen. They were perfect for two weeks of sun-kissed bliss, featuring blue ice-creams drenched in E numbers, endless chicken nuggets and chasing girls I fancied around the pool with my Super …

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