Shoes have increasingly become the center of attention when it comes to fashion, from Christian Louboutin’s now iconic red soles to limited-edition Air Jordans. Chronicling the history of footwear ...

Bata has launched its annual fashion show, Bata Fashion Weekend 2019, in celebration of its 125th anniversary. The event took place in Prague, the birthplace of Bata, on 13 – 14 April at the Zofin ...

Swiss footwear maker Bata has a long history in India. It checked in to India in the 1930s itself. Bata founder Tomas Bata--a ninth-generation Czech shoemaker--visited India in the late 1920s to ...

Two weeks before her death, on February 20th at the age of 91, Sonja Bata added one last pair of 18th-century heels to her collection of more than 13,000 shoes – a trove, spanning 4,500 years of ...

“There are adaptations, but actual world-changing innovation is a lot less common than we might want to believe,” said Elizabeth Semmelhack, senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto. The ...

For the first time in Bata’s 126-year history, an Indian will lead the firm to ‘shoe the world’. Sandeep Kataria, 49, who is currently Bata India’s CEO, has been elevated as global CEO of the company, ...