Fashion career profile

Konrad Birkenstock

Konrad Birkenstock was a German shoemaker and the fourth generation of the Birkenstock family craft tradition. He opened a workshop in Frankfurt in 1896, developed a fully three-dimensional anatomical last in 1897 and followed it with a flexible, anatomically

Role

Footbed Inventor and Fourth-Generation Shoemaker

Nationality

German

Age

153

Career appointments

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Fashion houses

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