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A black leather Ferragamo Hug bag with gold-tone buckles on a pale stone console.

Salvatore Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo established his Florence footwear company in 1927. Leather goods, ready-to-wear, silk and accessories followed; the company museum and historical archive keep its design history in view.

Florence, 1927

In 1927, Salvatore Ferragamo established a Florence company devoted to studying, designing, making and selling women’s shoes.1,2

Beyond footwear

The house expanded beyond shoes: its first leather-goods and women’s ready-to-wear collections appeared in 1965, followed by a silk and accessories collection in 1971.1,2

The museum’s changing lens

A 1985 exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi led to the family’s founding of the company museum in 1995. Since 2006, the museum has selected a different research theme each year, drawing connections between Ferragamo’s work and art, architecture, design and social history.3,4

The essentials

Founded
1927, Florence
Headquarters
Florence, Italy
Official site
ferragamo.com

Look closer

Side view of a Rainbow sandal with gold straps and suede-covered coloured layers above an open arch.
Suede-covered layers and gold straps make the 1938 Rainbow sandal’s support part of its spectacle.
Sources and citations (9)
  1. The History – The Group
  2. La storia – Gruppo
  3. Museum History
  4. Storia del museo
  5. Virtual Archive Tour
  6. Tour virtuale dell’archivio
  7. Exhibition archive: Rainbow, 1938
  8. Salvatore Ferragamo, Invisible Sandal, 1947
  9. Rainbow (1938), contemporary product 01I095 772433

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