Buffalo boots
| Buffalo Boots GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1979 |
| Seat | Cologne, Germany |
| management | Sven Voth, Tim Spickenborn, Mirko Ostendörfer
(Executive Director) |
| Branch | trade |
| Website | www.buffalo.de |
Buffalo is a German shoe brand distributed by Buffalo Boots GmbH based in Cologne . The brand became internationally known in the 1990s for shoes with platform soles . Today, elegant women's shoes in particular shape the range.
Company history
The company was founded in 1979 by Michael Conradi in Wiesbaden to import cowboy boots . The company name and the ornate logo come from this time. At the beginning of the 1980s, the then flat, sneaker-like Buffalo boot was popular as a men's shoe in Germany. The classic shaft-high shoe, mostly in white leather with a red emblem on the outside of the shaft, was supplied with very long laces, which were often wrapped around the shaft.
The brand became popular again in the 1990s, primarily through platform sneakers, which were now worn unisex . This is mainly in the techno scene, with scene great Sven Väth being one of the founder's friends. The 10 cm high shoe 1310-2 was made famous by the Spice Girls . During this time the shoes were classified as follows:
- Cloud sole (platform sole with a typical Buffalo pattern on the side and bottom. They are now sold as Classic )
- Tower (laterally smooth platform sole with partly extreme heights of 5 to 50 cm)
- Skater ( skate shoes , often inspired by models from the Osiris brand )
- Sneaker (flat shoes in different designs)
- Boots (platform)
present
Today trend shoes are sold in numerous variants. Among other things, there is a wide range of pumps , ballerinas and peep-toes for women. In addition to the Buffalo umbrella brand , products are also offered in the Buffalo London collection lines. In addition, the Buffalo Classics are the plateau models that have gone down in the company's history. In October 2016, Deichmann SE took over the company and continues to operate it under the Buffalo brand .
Awards
Buffalo received the Step Award from the trade magazine Schuhkurier as the “most innovative brand” .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Buffalo Boots is closing all stores. In: www.fr.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ^ Gregor Tholl: Fashion to take off. In: rhein-zeitung.de . April 27, 2000, accessed on February 10, 2019 (dpa).
- ↑ Buffalo Boots: Buffalo Creations. In: instyle.de . May 14, 2013, accessed February 10, 2019 .
- ↑ The Spice Girl's Buffalo Boots. In: fashion.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
- ↑ buffalo-shop.de: About Buffalo ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 2014
- ↑ DEICHMANN Group takes over Buffalo Boots. In: deichmann.com. September 30, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Petra Salewski: step Award for the most innovative brand: Buffalo. In: Schuhkurier. Archived from the original on March 20 ; accessed on February 10, 2019 .
