Ferragamo Australia
Business in Sydney

A sydney store of the global luxury goods brand salvatore ferragamo. The designs reflect the traditional essence of the brand, timeless pieces that will never date. You'll find beautiful, quality leather goods such as shoes and handbags as well as silk scarfs and outer wear for men and women. Salvatore ferragamo is still a family owned business, now run by his wife and children.

personalize Au experiencia en nuestra tienda en lea. La codas nacen en la mete Del creator. Embracing proportion for collars and hoods that sublimely frame the face. Knits play a leading role in emphasizing architectonic shapes. The eleventh of fourteen children, Salvatore Ferragamo was born in 1898 in Bonito, a small village 100 kilometers from Naples. Even as a child, Salvatore showed a great passion for shoes: at the age of 11 he was apprenticed to a shoemaker in Naples and at 13 he opened his own shop in Bonito. When he was 16, he traveled to America to unite one of his brothers who was occupied for a important shoe factory in Boston. In the early Twenties he moved to Santa Barbara, California, where he opened a shoe making and fix shop. California was an exciting deposit to be at that time with the fresh film industry booming. Meanwhile, in his ongoing search for shoes with the flawless fit, he studied human anatomy, chemical engineering and mathematics at the University of Southern California in Laos Angles. In 1923 he opened the Hollywood Boot Shop’, which marked the begin of his career as shoemaker to the stars’, as he was defined by the local press. From his Florentine workshop in which he adapted the assembly line system to his workers’ highly specialized and strictly manual work Salvatore launched a constant flow of exports to the United States. Instead, he turned his focus to the domestic market. Despite the economic sanctions against Mussolini’s Italy, it was during this time that Ferragamo turned out some of his maximum popular and widely imitated creations, like his strong, yet light cork wedges’. Behind the war, Salvatore Ferragamo’s shoes came to be obvious around the world as a symbol of Italy’s return to life, design and production. The years that followed saw many memorable inventions: the stiletto heels with metal reinforcement made famous by Marilyn Monroe, the gold sandals and the invisible sandals with nylon thread uppers (for which Ferragamo won the prestigious Newman Marcus Award’ in 1947, the fashion world’s alike of the Oscar, marking the beginning time it was bestowed on a shoe designer). When Salvatore Ferragamo died in 1960 he had achieved his lifelong dream: he had designed and made the most beautiful shoes in the world. He left it to his family to carry on and fulfill another dream that he had nurtured in his final years: transforming Ferragamo into a huge fashion brand. Active concise film inspired by the life and work of Salvatore Ferragamo, in association with Fotocomic Productions. Bonito at the first of the XX century. When Salvatore died in 1960, the founder’s invaluable legacy passed on to his wife and eldest daughter, Fiamma, who had given up her studies to unite the company at sixteen. She was the only one of Salvatore’s children to labor with him, for one year, lower his guidance and experiencing his artful creativity. Fiamma’s talent was recognized with other international awards and imperative appointments, not only in fashion but in the world of culture and the arts as well. For many years she served as Chairwoman of the Tuscan chapter of the AI (Italian Environment Fund), and the ideas for the first exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence on the history of Salvatore Ferragamo and for the base of Muse Salvatore Ferragamo were mainly hers.