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Footwear Designers in India translate trend research and biomechanical constraints into commercially viable shoes — working across the full spectrum from mass-market PVC chappals for Relaxo and Khadims, athletic shoes for Decathlon's design team, leather office-shoes for Bata and Liberty, and women's fashion heels for Metro Brands, Inc.5, and Catwalk, to new-gen D2C premium labels like Aprajita Toor and direct-to-consumer plays under Bewakoof's accessory lines. The craft sits at the intersection of industrial design (last selection, sole engineering, EVA foam specification) and fashion design (seasonal trend boards, colourways, vamp proportion, silhouette). Most Indian footwear designers pass through the Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI, Noida/Kolkata/Chennai/Jodhpur) or the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, with CLRI (CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai) providing the technical-material science complement. The industry employs roughly 4.5 million people in production and a far smaller (and underserved) population of trained designers — making mid-to-senior design talent genuinely scarce at established brands.