Kirstin Deutelmoser receives outstanding achievement award
Director of GDS and Global Shoes, Kirstin Deutelmoser, has received the Fashion Fuchs (Fashion Fox) award this year.
The award is given by Hermann Fuchslocher Business Consultancy to individuals for outstanding achievement in the fashion industry.
Dr Rolf Klinke, who gave out the award, said: "Like no other, Ms Deutelmoser was, and is, committed to bringing the increasingly diffused trade fair landscape together in Düsseldorf under the aspect of a true industry meeting for shoes. In Leipzig and in Düsseldorf, she managed in an exemplary manner to set an important personal note for the fashion and most notably the shoe industry through her exceptional efforts."
Previous winners of the award include: Dr Karl-Wilhelm Vordemfelde, managing director of Wilvorst Herrenmoden; Achim Gabor, chairman of the board at Gabor Shoes; and Wolfgang Jassner, managing director of bruno banani Underwear.