In its Vancouver lab, Lululemon tracks women’s breast motion and centers of gravity as they run, jump, and stretch to create perfectly fitting sports bras. But four years ago, the brand’s designers ...

Have you ever had a custom-made shoe? If you lived in a previous century you likely would have. Prior to 1859, when American engineer Lyman Blake invented a sole-sewing machine, shoe-making was ...

Barefoot shoe-maker Vivobarefoot is looking to tackle the issue of footwear waste, joining forces with Virginia-based textile-to-textile recycling innovator Circ on an innovation to advance circular ...

Sixty-seven years after co-founding Reebok, 89-year-old Joe Foster is now partnering with a 25-year-old entrepreneur to market what the pair say is the first artificial intelligence-designed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Vanessa Arroyo loved fashion, even ...

A footwear startup is teaming up with two space companies to design a shoe in orbit as part of a mission to make artificial intelligence and blockchain less expensive and more eco-friendly than it is ...

Despite decades of progress in sports science, women runners still wear scaled-down men’s shoes. A new study exposes how this one-size-fits-all approach affects comfort, performance, and injury risk, ...

Aug. 11, 1973, marked the beginning of hip-hop after DJ Kool Herc, a Bronx, New York-based DJ, invented the art during a back-to-school party for his sister. Two hundred and twenty-two miles away, in ...

The shoe industry, like most apparel categories, is prone to consumer overconsumption. Algorithm-driven trends and accelerated product cycles lead to impulsive shopping decisions, often made with ...