The idea was to make two shoes that embody the spirit of the city, Paul-Dauphin said.
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The shirts and shoes they make for athletes are the target of perhaps the biggest-ever crusade against sweatshops.
My job is to provide the shoes that make it easy to walk this terrain.
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Having started as an apprentice in the shoe industry at age 17, he had a clear vision, namely to make functional, comfortable shoes designed to fit the foot.
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Onitsuka started out trying to make basketball shoes, betting that the sport was about to take off in Japan.
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And while we're obsessing over details, don't forget to pin your name and cell phone number to the inside of your kids' clothes and make sure your family wears closed-toe shoes to the park.
Sceptics say Ethiopia's shoddy infrastructure may make it hard to produce the volumes of shoes required.
He worried about design and comfort, and why most companies didn't have the brains--or the guts--to make better shoes.
Gone are the days of staring at the long flowing curtains for an agonising few minutes to see if shoes in your size will make a grand entrance in the hands of the shop worker.
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The decisions they make now--move beyond footwear? sell shoes under other brand names? place a big bet outside the U.S.?--could determine whether this company will become the next Nike or another Greenberg disaster.
These days, he and his team of four design and make bespoke handcrafted shoes from his workshop in the elegant Strand Arcade, one of Sydney's historic shopping arcades in the Central Business District.
They then recommend ways to use the information, like making all the shoes displayed on the Monday home page black (and coaxing the company to make sure that suppliers are clued in).
So, as the Olympic sponsor and official provider of many national teams, Adidas claims the right to make the athletes wear only its gear on the medals podium, although they can race in whatever shoes they want.
Cuban anglers also must fashion their own lures, melting down the rubber from old tennis shoes to make worms.
Dr Mahdavi is working on other lattice structures, including aerodynamic body parts for racing cars and special insoles for a firm that hopes to make the world's most comfortable stiletto-heeled shoes.
Eventually, the plan is for Altuzarra LLC to make its own shoes and leather goods, he says.
Johnstone, the filmmaker behind "Rising From Ashes, " recalled how Adrien and his teammates used to shave the bottoms off soccer cleats to make their own bike shoes.
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It has started to build a vast industrial estate at the edge of Addis Ababa where it intends to make shoes for Western brands.
And if your feet smell, put those shoes right back on to make sure that you contain the stink.
She decides it is time to make sacrifices and cut back, so she buys the dress but not the shoes, on the family credit card.
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After two years of writing the letter in his head, Walzer requested Nike CEO Mark Parker to make custom shoes for him.
In Cairo young women match the colour of their veils with that of their tunics, handbags, make-up and shoes.
Mr Meadows, who came to prominence with films such as This Is England, Once Upon A Time In The Midlands and Dead Man's Shoes, said he had "unprecedented access" to all three Heaton Park shows to make the documentary.
The brand, which was bought by Adidas in 2005, has struggled to make an impact with its sports shoes that are designed to boost muscle tone.
The concept of the door-to-door salesman traded on the idea that anyone could make money with a good product, hard work, and a comfortable pair of shoes.
At 16 factories Brough, 36, was all but shoved out the door by eye-rolling cobblers who didn't want to make smallish batches of labor-intensive nonleather shoes that, to meet Brough's standards, would require animal-free glue.
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