Wanda_Ferragamo

Wanda Ferragamo

Wanda Ferragamo

Italian fashion designer and businesswoman

Wanda Ferragamo (née Miletti; 18 December 1921 - 19 October 2018) was an Italian fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the head designer of Ferragamo.

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She was born in Bonito, Avellino, Italy, the daughter of Fulvio Miletti, the podestà and municipal doctor of the town, physician of the Ferragamo family and their client.[1] During the summer of 1940, at the age of 18 years old, she met and then married Salvatore Ferragamo, in the church of Santa Lucia in Naples.[2] From their marriage, six children were born: Fiamma, Ferruccio, Giovanna, Fulvia, Leonardo and Massimo.

After the wedding, they moved to Florence in a villa near Fiesole.

After the death of her husband in 1960, Wanda took over the family-owned manufacturer, thus becoming the CEO for more than 20 years.[3] She grew up in a wealthy family, so she was attending school as her mother did, but she had no specific professional training: as a result, she learned how to manage a company by watching and listening to her husband.[4] Since then, the company turned from a footwear company to a ready-to-wear and fashion wear with expanded product lines, thanks also to the help of her children.[5]

She died in Florence on October 18, 2018 at the age of 96.[6][7][8]

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