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Footwear Market To See Increased Demand For Comfortable & Fashionable Footwear

The increasing demand for comfortable and fashionable footwear among all age groups, followed by increasing participation in sports activities, is one of the important factors driving the growth of this market. Increasing awareness, regarding the health benefits followed by changing lifestyle of consumers, is another factor expected to trigger the market growth. The global athletic footwear market is highly-competitive with different players making huge investments in brand building and marketing channels.

The Wild West Collection By Hidesign

Inspired by canyons that spread out as far as the eye goes, sand dunes that ended at the horizon and the cowgirls and cowboys that owned the Wild West.

Autumn/Winter 2019 Trend

The autumn/winter season is just around the corner and everyone in the fashion industry, from leading designers to stylists and buyers to the laborious tailors, are working vigorously to bring the fashionable and current global trends to the Indian market.

Adidas Originals X White Mountaineering FW19 Collection

Debuted at Paris Fashion Week in January 2019, the outdoors-inspired Japanese label presents two new Nite Joggers, created from premium materials and technologies, featuring eye-catching co-branding.

Touch Of Luxury

Thailand-based women’s shoes and accessories brand Lyn is known for its on-trend and cutting edge designs. Part of the renowned Jaspal Group, the brand has marked its presence in India with its first store at Select CityWalk, New Delhi. It has recently launched ‘Dare to Be’, the Autumn/Winter 2019 collection inspired by Venice. In an exclusive interaction, the group’s Brand Director Suvita Singh Sachathet told S&A’s N Bobo Meitei, We’ve recognized India has a large number of fashion-forward consumers who are aware and passionate about the latest trends, yet still mindful of experiencing a balance of simultaneous value and quality.

Separating The Good From The Great

Founded by Mikhil Mehra, The Dapper Man’s and Pellé Santino’s target audience is wide and ranges from professionals to self employed individuals to college goers. Their limited collections always ensure that the styles and designs remain unique. Mikhil explains that the former caters largely to the home market while the latter beyond. You may not see the same design being sold after a few weeks or a month, thus giving each design and every piece we make a sense of authenticity, says Mikhil. S&A caught up with the founder for this issue.

Essentially Classic

The brand has a broad target market, it has had young professional buying the shoes and they have become repeat customers. It also has customers that understand the materials and construction of the shoes.

Trend Forecasting And Sourcing Diversification Seminars For Australian Expo

From sustainability and transparency to global industry trends and savvy sourcing strategies, the three-day seminar program will cater to industry professionals during International Sourcing Expo and the co-located Footwear and Leather Show from November 12-14 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.

On The Fashion Track Swansind

Swansind’s products are aimed at customers who want to express themselves with style and confidence.

Sonam Kapoor & Traworld

Rise in the personal disposable income, travelling expenditure of the households, development of retailing and specialty stores and growing acceptance of luggage bags as a lifestyle product by the customers have contributed significantly to luggage industry in India.

Hidesign - An Cological Rebellion

Hidesign’s origin lies in an ecological rebellion against synthetics and chemical tanning.

Monk Story - Sense Of Quirkiness

Monk Story offers a variety of range of products with footwear being its main focus. Currently, the product range it caters comprises of shoes, dress, office, casual and running, and messenger and travel bags.

Creating Uber Chic

Its shoes are designed in studios based out of Florence, Italy, by renowned designers. The designs are then modified by their in-house design experts to adapt to the taste of local customers.

4th Designers Fair In Chennai

Indias most exciting exhibition for designs and kit makers.

Flyrun

A Brand Worth Investing In.

Lee Cooper Hosts A Preview Of Its Footwear Range

SPRING SUMMER 19 COLLECTION

Formal Shoes Segment In India

The current footwear consumptionscenario is changing rather remarkably, especially in metro cities due to increase in consumer spending patterns and awareness of latest trends. The masses are becoming more vigilant towards the expansive availability of styles.

The Modern Fairytale Of Our Wardrobe

Vocal fashion critic and entrepreneur Kanika Bhatia writes, from breathing room for your breasts, ankle shaming, fat shaming, and the over emphasis on boundaries pertaining to trims on our clothing, its been quite a journey our ladies have battled.

Style Of Tomorrow - Modello Domani

Modello Domani is the brainchild of Ayush Diwan Khurana. Ayush started his entrepreneurial journey in 2010, with a dating service called Flirtease, followed by launching a retail store selling high-end brands. As a go-getter, Ayush learnt about the entire leather shoes ecosystem, starting from the sourcing of leather to production and then the supply chain process. With a flagship store in Defence Colony, New Delhi the brand has reached high revenue and aims to reach much higher in the future.

Designs Of Exclusivity And Finesse

One of the foremost jewellers, Abhishek Kajaria is a name that symbolises glamour and timeless style. Having completed his studies, he went on to work as a jewellery exporter for 22 years and finally launched his own retail brand, ‘Avama Jewellers’ in 2017. Meticulous craftsmanship and a strong design sensibility create a brand that exudes style and sophistication for the woman of today. His penchant for minimalism urges him to create jewellery that caters to all age groups, and has an international appeal despite its Indian identity. Abhishek quickly garnered attention for his contemporary and traditional aesthetic and his experimentation with materials like rose gold, gemstones and diamonds. A perfectionist by nature, Abhishek grounded Avama Jewellers on the twin pillars of excellence and innovation. Through his vast industry experience, the versatile entrepreneur aims at revolutionising the fine jewellery and lifestyle segment in India with a firm focus on craftsmanship, quality and customer experience. In a short span of time, Abhishek has built a large family of loyal consumers in India and abroad. In an exclusive interview with S&A, Abhishek shares more about the brand.

Bags At Guilt-free Prices

Shreya Thakkar never thought of becoming an entrepreneur but accidentally became one, shuffling the letters of life from Finance to Fashion. The founder reckons that the main motive to start the label StruT was to create a range of colourful and quirky bags for all at guilt-free prices. Initially, she started with buying 20 ready made bags made from Vegan Leather and are light in weight. She informs S&A, we are further planning to expand in the southern region of India through online channels as well as offline - by doing the tieups with designer stores, as it has more number of working women, who are not only financially independent.

Agility In Action!

Gain actionable insights on global footwear retail, sourcing, production, design and development.

Treating The World To Their Favorite Shoe

Hush Puppies entered the Indian market 20 years ago and initially positioned itself as the premium men dress footwear brand. The brand has traversed from being Men Dress brand to becoming a ‘Lifestyle footwear’ brand in the last few years, and it now offers an array of casual and multi-occasion footwear range. In an interview with S&A’s N Bobo Meitei, the brand’s Vijay Gogate said, “With increasing per capita footwear consumption and a wide variety of national and international brands operating, Indian market has become a really exciting turf to play on.” Vijay is Flagship Retail Head & Vice President-International Brands at Bata India Limited.

Delhi Celebrates The British Royal Wedding With A Big Heart And A Scottish Toast!

Excitement of the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle at the Windsor Castle, U.K. spread over 4000 miles to reach India as well. At a special charity sundowner event held at DLF’s luxury mall, The Chanakya, it was all about celebrating the British Royal family’s spirit of generosity, gratitude and zest.

From Limited Editions To Heritage Shoes

SANGEET PARYANI has been a big fan of sneakers since he was ten. He recalls the time when he bought his pair of Chuck Taylors with profound nostalgia. Though sneaker has been a strong trend abroad, in India it is the other way until recently. With this penchant, he has opened Superkicks, a sneaker-exclusive retail outlet in Mumbai. Sangeet claims that it’s the unique curation that sets the outlet apart from others. In an exclusive interview with S&A’s Bobo Meitei, he said, the articles that we have are more lifestyle-based than any other MBOs.

Nouvelle Couture Beau Monde

Since 2008, every arm candy created at Beau Monde has been the show stealer!

Combination Of Utility And Style

What sets Yelloe apart is its style with utility at affordable price. Its product design is classic with simplicity and comes with many features with a price point much lower than its competitors with the same or higher quality and usage.

Shivan & Narresh X koovs Collection

Shivan&Narresh is a luxury holiday wear brand with swimwear, resort wear, celebration wear and accessories as its major offerings for the bold, confident and sophisticated lifestyle for millennials. Recently, the label has colloborated with KOOVS on one-of-a-kind capsule collections. The Shivan & Narresh X KOOVS collection is a mix of multiple inspirations; incorporating activewear, athleisure inspired coordinates and evening wear. This will be a line of 40 pieces- comprising of garments and accessories for men and women. S&A’s N Bobo Meitei interacted with the founders and designers, Shivan Bhatiya and Narresh Kukreja, to discuss the label and more.

A Customer-Obsessed Company

Bengaluru-based Rapawalk is the brainchild of Kashif Mohammad and Aravind Maddireddy, batch mates at IIM Ahmedabad. It is an online footwear brand that offers consumers premium quality shoes at affordable prices. Customers can directly shop the curated designs or personalize any style on their advanced 3D configurator and engage in an immersive shopping experience. The founders claim that Rapawalk is the result of extensive research, a rich heritage of artisanal craftsmanship and a passion for personalized footwear, realized with state-of-the-art 3D modeling technology. S&A caught up with the duo to discuss the brand.

With Belief In Cultural Pillars

Reliance Jewels has a variety of collections across gold, silver, diamond and platinum categories. You can discover exquisite designs from Reliance Jewels which are uniquely hand-crafted and exclusive in every sense. The product collections include traditional as well as the modern contemporary form of jewellery pieces and solitaires. In an exclusive with S&A’s N Bobo Meitei, its CEO, SuNil Nayak said, “We believe in cultural pillars like respect and equality, ownership, innovation mindset, integrity in our actions.”