A new footwear show stepping out in Las Vegas this month.
FN Platform — a joint venture between MAGIC and Footwear News — will include more than 500 brands spanning roughly 60,000 square feet of exhibition space at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The dedicated footwear show, running concurrently with the MAGIC marketplace Feb. 16 to 18, will be divided into five distinctly themed sections to service different
categories of the shoe market.
“Each of the areas of the show has its own neighborhood and is anchored by its own lounge,” said MAGIC president Chris DeMoulin.
The Cosmo women’s section will include brands such as Aquatalia by Marvin K., Stuart Weitzman, Steve Madden and Ralph Lauren. Camp features fashion athletic and
lifestyle merchandise like Sperry Top-Sider, Auri, Palladium and G.H. Bass & Co. Bond showcases men’s dress brands such as Donald J Pliner, Mezlan, Bacco Bucci and Cole Haan. Comfort brands in the Zen area will include Easy Spirit, Naturalizer and Aetrex. Finally, InPlay features juniors’ and kids’ labels like Stride Rite, Poetic License, Lelli Kelly and XOXO.
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An additional 200 shoe brands will be exhibited elsewhere in the MAGIC family of shows, but DeMoulin said eventually they would likely move into FN Platform.
Several events also are scheduled during the show. On opening night, FN Platform will team with YP for 210, a networking group of young footwear professionals organized by the Two Ten Footwear Foundation, the industry’s main footwear charity, to host a fund-raiser bowling party at the Orleans Bowling Center at The Orleans hotel. FN Platform will also honor a number of brands celebrating milestone anniversaries, including Sperry Top-Sider’s 75th, and 20 years each for Steve Madden and Donald J Pliner.