DHL has been appointed the official logistics partner for Vivienne Westwood’s international shoeexhibition roadshow.
The partnership includes packaging, transportation, customs clearance, insurance and on timedelivery of 133 unique high-value single and pair shoes. The exhibits, which were created between1973 and 2010, include Westwood’s 1996 Toile Print Boot, the 1999 Sahara Plimsoll of 1999 and the1993 Super Elevated Gillie.
The shoes will be transported by air and road transport, always picked up and deliveredpersonally by special experts from DHL. Moscow will be the first stop of Westwood’s internationalshoe exhibition roadshow from April 8th to 22nd, followed by Beirut, Beijing, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
DHL said it has long-standing experience in the fashion logistics industry. Theseextraordinary individual items from Vivienne Westwood are handled with utmost care. “For suchspecific requests we develop flexible and individual logistics solutions. This cooperation showsagain just how much leading fashion brands trust in the logistical capabilities of DHL,” saysWolfgang Giehl, Senior Vice President Corporate Brand Marketing at Deutsche Post DHL.
DHL is a leading international logistics provider for the textile and garment industries,offering services ranging from procurement of material to sample production, quality control,warehousing and processing of garments to direct store delivery. The company is the OfficialLogistics Partner of IMG’s worldwide Fashion Weeks series, where DHL supports designers such asMichael Michalsky.
