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DENNIS BASSO Fall 2012 Fashion Show

To Do Wednesday: Designer Day

Spring your closet back to life with a day of sample sales and trunk shows. Tracy Reese, a favorite of the first lady, Michelle Obama, is selling pieces for sizes 0-12—Cara Delevigne to Camryn Manheim—for a visual, with prices starting at just $50. For fancy footsie finds, hit Stuart Weitzman’s Fall ’13 trunk show, where Read More

Manhattan Transfers

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The Edelman's Former Home

A Bad Fit? Footwear Power Couple Sam And Libby Edelman Sell Chelsea Condo

Sometimes even your favorite pair of shoes can get a little down at the heels, or pinch in all the wrong places. In short, sometimes you have to dump even the most beloved pair of pumps. And it seems that that time had come for designer duo Sam and Libby Edelman to slip off their duplex penthouse at 133 West 22nd Street.

The shoe superstars have sold their two-bedroom condo for $2.8 million to Chelsea Vista LLC, a little under the $2.95 million ask, according to city records. Read More

Shoe Wars

Foamposite Galaxy (via Trendhunter.com)

Nike Foamposite Galaxy Release Sparks Rioting at Florida Mall

At last report most consumers have been waiting peacefully for Nike’s new limited-release Foamposite Galaxy basketball shoe, camping out on sidewalks in tents and sleeping bags. MyFoxPhilly reports someone wanted the $220 glow-in-the-dark shoes badly enough to offer to trade their 16-year-old Chevy Cavalier on Craigslist, which is kind of crazy, but not frightening.

However, according to multiple accounts on social media, the scrum for the Galaxy at Florida Mall in Orlando has been anything but peaceful: Read More

Vans Tries to Increase East Coast Footprint

Did you know that Vans has only eight employees in New York? And that’s an improvement over the one employee the shoemaker had in New York three years ago?

Well, Vans, the popular West Coast purveyor of checkered canvas slip-ons is trying to change all that. The Wall Street Journal reports that the firm Read More