Abaete

Nancy Lichtenstein returns with her take on Abaete & After seeing Barbie at Bloomingdale's, my first official New York Fashion Week gig was to go backstage at Abaeté to talk to David Cruz of Redken. I've been trying to recreate a facsimile of the crocheted chain mail detachable hoods from Abaeté's Spring 2009 show since September so I was eager to see what David and designer Laura Poretzky had cooked up for fall. The backstage luminaries at Abaeté for Fall 2009 were photographer and...Read Full Story

Bothell, Wash.-based Brooks Sports, Inc., filed suit May 4 in the Western District against Payless Shoesource, Inc., Exeter Brands Group, LLC, and Nike, Inc., over the alleged infringement of its running shoe logo. Brooks’ complaint alleges that defendants recently began manufacturing, promoting, and selling a new line of performance athletic shoes called “Tailwind.” Brooks alleges that shoes in this footwear line bear a design mark that is substantially identical and confusingly similar to...Read Full Story

Payless ShoeSource, Inc. wants parents to know just how important it is for children to have a proper pair of shoes. That's why the company announced today it will give every baby born in the year 2000 his or her first pair of shoes FREE. The Baby's First Shoes(TM) program, featuring baby shoes in pink, white and denim, kicks off today at Payless ShoeSource stores in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam. The free baby shoes from Payless are for pre-walkers. Each pair of baby shoes...Read Full Story

Payless.com customers can now take their favorite footwear for a spin thanks to IBM HotMedia, a software toolkit that adds life to the online world. HotMedia provides customers with an animated 360-degree view of the more than 700 family footwear styles available at Payless.com, the online store for the Payless ShoeSource chain of Payless ShoeSource, Inc.. The addition of HotMedia comes just in time for back-to-school shopping, and makes finding the perfect style elementary -- so there's more...Read Full Story

Back in early December, word got out that Project Runway winner Christian Siriano had inked a deal with bargain shoe company Payless ShoeSource. But Siriano is not the only high-end designer to land such a deal: Laura Poretzky of Abaete has been creating hot shoes for Payless for a few seasons, now. These shoes debuted on February 13, 2009 at the Abaete show for Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. They are indeed lots of fun, but you'll have to wait for your pair: Poretzky's designs won't hit...Read Full Story