Shoe

Among the bustling workshops in the streets of Akyazı, Sakarya in the Marmara region, a 75-year-old craftsman makes the unimaginable— shoes that scale down from size 44 to a minuscule 2 millimeters, setting his sights on a Guinness World Record with his extraordinarily miniature designs.

Many designers and many brands make huge efforts to create the most expensive and luxurious shoes – Their high prices are sometimes due to unusual reasons

The aging reformed mobster who has admitted stealing a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz" gave into the temptation of "one last score" after an old mob associate led him to believe the famous shoes must be adorned with real jewels to justify their $1 million insured value.

Tilda Swinton was in stylish pink-brown shoes, not unlike those one would wear at home, when we encountered her Monday, about 14 hours after the "Embodying Pasolini" dress rehearsal at the Onassis Foundation Cultural Center, or Stegi, show room, one level bellow the ground floor.

Police in Athens have arrested a 42-year-old woman on suspicion of setting up a website to sell bootlegged shoes and clothes to unsuspecting customers.

The shoes and clothes were advertised as being from leading brands but when buyers received the parcels, they found that the products differed from those advertised and were of low value.

The vast waste and pollution caused by the fashion industry has made recycling clothes a top priority, but only now are simple tasks like pulling the sole off a shoe being done by machines.

CETIA, a company in the southwest of France is finally offering some mechanical solutions to the challenges of recycling clothes.

Panagiotis Drakopoulos crafts handmade leather goods at his workshop on Romvis Street, in downtown Athens. A team of scientists from the National Technical University of Athens have launched an initiative to create circular economy synergies between the last surviving productive enterprises that maintain their headquarters in the center of Athens, and introduce them to green innovation.

Within the scope of the project called "Geleceğe Dönüşüm" (Transformation to the Future in English), around 7,500 Turkish Airlines bags for cabin crew have been turned into 10,000 pairs of boots for children affected by the deadly Feb. 6 earthquakes that ripped through Türkiye's south.

The Bulgarian Ministry of Defense will provide aid to Ukraine of 5,000 sets of winter clothing and 5,000 pairs of shoes.

The humanitarian aid provided through the Ground Forces contains: 5,000 half-coats with lining, 5,000 leggings with lining, 5,000 long-sleeved shirts, 5,000 hats, 5,000 pairs of shoes.

While the sportswear trend in shoes, which has come to the fore with the pandemic, continues, Türkiye is becoming a base in the production of sports shoes.