Shoes and Leather - Europe

Search the Europe database for footwear and leather apparel. You can search by various fashion categories such as shoes, travel accessories, leather fashion accessories etc. This section will provide results from European suppliers of leather and footwear.

Finding European Footwear Suppliers

Footwear is a specialist search. Shoes are built, not sewn in the way a garment is sewn: a shoe combines an upper, a lining, a sole and the construction that joins them, and a supplier set up for one kind of footwear is not automatically set up for another. Searching Europe by the shoe category first, and by country second, lets a buyer compare suppliers doing the same kind of work before geography narrows the choice. The country directories linked from the Europe hub above then show which of those suppliers sit in the country a buyer prefers.

Leather runs alongside footwear because so much European footwear is leather footwear, but the leather listings are wider than shoes. They cover leather as a material and leather goods, including leather apparel, leather fashion accessories and travel accessories. A buyer who needs finished shoes, a buyer who needs leather for their own production, and a buyer who needs leather accessories are three different searches, and this page keeps the entry points separate so each one starts in the right list.

Working With European Shoes and Leather Suppliers

The useful first questions for a footwear or leather supplier are about construction and material: what kinds of shoes the company makes, which leathers it works in, whether it supplies finished goods or material, and which accessories it produces alongside its main line. State the category from your search in the enquiry, since a shoe company, a tannery and a leather goods maker each answer a different part of an order. For the full range of European clothing and textile categories, use the companion page linked above.