Women's Diadora Trainers

Diadora started in 1948 in a workshop in Caerano di San Marco, north of Venice, making mountain and work boots. Sport came later — ski boots, then tennis and football through the seventies. The trainers here are drawn from that period rather than designed to look like it. The Winner is the biggest family, and there's more across our womens footwear and a good deal reduced in sale footwear.

Women's Diadora Winner and Kmaro 42 Trainers

The Winner is the largest part of this collection and the plainest — a low court shoe, mostly leather, with the Diadora logo down the side. There's an SL version and a Creamy version alongside the standard one. The Kmaro 42 is the other end of the range, and some of them are made with ACBC, a company that builds shoes to be taken apart and recycled at the end. If you want one pair of Diadoras to wear with everything, it's the Winner.

Diadora Tokyo, Camaro and Rally Trainers

These three are the retro runners. The Tokyo is the lowest and narrowest. Camaro and Rally have more sole under them and more panelling on the upper, usually in suede. The Rally S is a variation on the Rally. All three come from Diadora's running years, which is why they look like nothing currently made for running — no thick foam, no plate, just a flat sole and a nylon upper.

Diadora Mythos, N902 and Sao Ko 280 Trainers

The chunkier end. Mythos Propulsion and Mythos Star are nineties running shapes with the bulk that implies. N902 and Sao Ko 280 sit somewhere between those and the Tokyo. If you're between two shapes, the thing to compare is how much sole sits under the heel — it changes where a trouser hem falls more than the width of the shoe does.

These are women's city shoes rather than running shoes, whatever the shapes suggest. Diadora is the only Italian sports footwear company still making some of its product in Italy, and it does still make football boots, but that isn't what's on this page. There's more in all footwear and casual shoes, and the rest of what's reduced in sale footwear.

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