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Article: FASHION FORCE; SINCE 1980, FFANY HAS FOCUSED ON FOOTWEAR, PHILANTHROPY AND MAKING NEW YORK A MUST-SEE DESTINATION ON THE SHOE-BUYING CIRCUIT.(Fashion Footwear Association of New York)
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- Footwear News
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- May 9, 2005
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Byline: Brian Russak
While there were other fashion-footwear organizations before it, the Fashion Footwear Association of New York is the gold standard. At 25 years old, it is also now the silver standard.
From day one, FFANY has worked diligently to make New York the premier fashion-footwear destination for retail buyers in the U.S. The association also has long mined the "shoe-business-as-show-business" angle, whether by hosting important networking parties, its famed Fashion Medal of Honor events or Shoes on Sale, the annual breast-cancer-research benefit launched to great acclaim in 1994. It remains an industry-galvanizing event that is perhaps ...