The Short Answer
Grasshoppers Shoes did not have a dramatic, public bankruptcy. What happened is more mundane and honestly kind of typical for mid-tier retail shoe brands. The brand has gone through ownership changes and periods of reduced visibility, which makes it easy to assume they folded. The brand originated in the 1990s as a children's footwear company and built a decent following through department store placements and school uniform programs. At some point over the years, the brand changed hands. This is the normal rotation of private equity firms buying shoe brands, consolidating them under larger parent companies, and slowly letting them fade or repurposing the name for specific product lines. I remember working with a distributor who carried their line back around 2005. By 2008 or so, the brand presence started thinning out. Orders became inconsistent. The marketing budget disappeared. The products themselves were still being made, just not pushed the same way. That pattern isn't a closure, it's a slow consolidation phase.
Currently, you can still find Grasshoppers brand shoes through various retailers, primarily online. But the consistent retail footprint they once had in physical stores is largely gone. The brand exists more as a label on shelves than as an actively marketed company driving new releases and campaigns. If you are asking because you had a warranty issue or are looking for replacement parts, that gets harder. Once a brand goes through multiple ownership transitions, customer service pipelines tend to fragment. I had a customer once who needed sole replacements for a pair from 2012. After three separate support ticket transfers between whatever entity currently held the rights, we gave up and found a cobbler who could do it for less than the hassle was worth. Bottom line: the brand survived, but quietly. It didn't go out with a bang. It got absorbed into corporate structures, the active investment dropped off, and it became one of those names that still appears on Amazon and a few outlet stores while nobody really talks about it anymore.
