Micam celebrates its 100th edition
Footwear exhibition Micam opened the doors on its 100th edition on September 7.
This time, the twice-yearly event attracted 870 brands to Milan to showcase their spring-summer 2026 collections.
There was a solemn start to a day of celebrations of the show’s reaching this milestone because president of Italy’s national footwear industry association Assocalzaturifici, Giovanna Ceolini, led attendees in a minute’s silence for Milan-based designer Giorgio Armani, who died on September 4.
She went on to say that reaching the one-hundredth edition of the exhibition was a testament to “50 years of history, sacrifice and technological innovation” on the part of Italy’s shoe manufacturers and their suppliers. “In Italy we have companies involved in the whole supply chain,” she insisted. “No part of the supply chain is missing.”
But she later said that recruiting and training new generations of workers for these companies is a persistent worry for her. She told leatherbiz that Italy’s ITS technical high schools were not delivering for the industry.
She said that while, in theory, an ITS high school option should prepare students for work in manufacturing, there was a distinct lack of support from parents in all parts of Italy for the model.
Image shows Giovanna Ceolini (left) at Micam in Milan in September 2025.
