History
The most representative footwear of the 60s is the mountain boot. Its rough charm is charged with new fascination thanks to the great feats of mountaineering and exploration. Walter Moratti’s boots treading the virgin snows of the Ruwenzori mountains or the Orinoco River’s mud became the symbol of one generation of adventure lovers.
Sport as a role model in dress style and everyday life: that’s the trend that has been established over the 70’s, encouraged by the huge popularity of some champions that peaked with the All-Star Game in the NBA championships. The mould developed by Zago for Converse with a new technique considerably contributed to improve the athletes’ performances.
A specific kind of German sports footwear captured the attention of the tennis players and became a fashion cult. PUMA came up with the idea of a fishbone texture, making only apparently for a simple footwear, which however hides the perils of PU. Thanks to a top technological performance, Zago eliminated the air bubbles (typical of the material) and manufactured TENNIS81, a great success constantly renewed over the following years. Timeless.
The 90s: a revolutionary decade marked by the birth of the World Wide Web, but also by the creation of a new way of living and doing sport. Snowboard is a ground-breaking product: much more than just a sport, it is the symbol of a new generation and of a different lifestyle. Here you may see a snowboard boot featuring PU injection paired with a rubber tread.
At the end of the ’90 the old game of golf conquers the world. ECCO Golf is a revolutionary TPU-PU golf shoe where special attention is paid to design. The footwear is the result of an exceptionally detailed design study, using sophisticated mould technologies and high precision textures to be seen clearly in the new system used to sink the steel lodgings for the nails directly into the TPU.
In the first 20 years of the third millennium, everyone developed a passion for running, from the youngest to the adults. The most well-known sport brands invest a lot, and new shoes with more and more amazing performances are created. With the Dynaframe shoe, Zago refines the RUBBER-PUR/PU technique creating a footwear for outstanding performances.
Born in Mexico around the 1960s, Padel-Tennis is a quite young sport which spread and keeps on spreading incredibly fast because of its easy gameplay suited to all ages. In creating this Grisport shoe, Zago developed a PU-PU mould meeting the new contemporary requirements of aesthetics, high performance, as well as extreme lightness.
