Footwear

Foot Locker announced on Wednesday sales for the second quarter fell 2.4% to $1.85 billion, despite steady comparable sales growth in the specialty footwear retailer's North America market.  

​New Look’s owners have take a step forward in their plan to sell the fashion retail business with investment firms Alcentra and Brait having chosen Rothschild to run a strategic review.

​Debenhams Group (which used to be Boohoo Group) issued its annual results for the year to the end of February on Tuesday afternoon and also said it's considering the sale of PrettyLittleThing.

Onclusive’s 2025 report shows Nike, Adidas, and Skechers dominating media and social buzz, as athleisure, sneaker culture, and celebrity power reshape the sportswear industry.

Portuguese footwear exports reached €843M and 36M pairs in H1 2024, rising 3.7% in value. APICCAPS reports global gains despite market challenges, with strong growth in Germany and concerns in the Netherlands.

Nike's push into the booming outdoor recreation market- which will kick off on Monday with the launch of a new trail running shoe- will test whether it can turn a little-known sub-brand into a meaningful growth engine. 

Adidas executives visited a small Indigenous town in the mountains of southern Mexico on Thursday to offer an apology over a sandal-inspired shoe design that Mexico's government had blasted as cultural appropriation.

Onitsuka Tiger, the fashion brand reborn when Uma Thurman’s The Bride wore its sneakers in Quentin Tarantino’s 2003 movie, is enjoying record sales.

One of Italy’s best known fashion labels, Valentino, said on Wednesday it has appointed Riccardo Bellini as its new chief executive.

​Manolo Blahnik has released its latest annual results (covering 2024) and while turnover and profits were down, this was partly due to a strategy change and heavy spend on new stores, as well as to the luxury slowdown.

A week after news of John Lewis’s even deeper dive into beauty, it’s upping its game in the key fashion category, adding 100 new brands to its stores as the battle between it and big-hitters Next and M&S intensifies.

Nike Inc.’s sneakers are front and centre at Foot Locker Inc. stores once again as the long-time partners rebuild a relationship that had frayed in recent years. 

Colombian label Vélez has launched a new large-format collection featuring multiple women's and men's capsules and mixing traditional designs with contemporary trends.

Topshop and Topman have been making headlines for months as the team behind them teased their comeback plan. And at the weekend it all fell into place and was just about the best feelgood news story out there.

The manufacture of iconic "made in the USA" cowboy boots is set to suffer from President Donald Trump's 30% tariffs on South African exports that came into force in August.

News broke on Thursday that Valentino CEO Jacopo Venturini has stepped down from the executive helm of the luxury fashion label.