Wanda Ferragamo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Wanda Ferragamo

Italian businesswoman, designer and fashion expert

Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1921

Place of Birth: Bonito, Campania, Italy

Date of Death: 19-Oct-2018

Profession: designer

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Wanda Ferragamo

  • Wanda Ferragamo born Wanda Miletti on 23 October 1921 in Bonito (Avellino, Italy), was an Italian fashion designer and businesswoman.
  • She was the head designer of Ferragamo. Motherless, she was the daughter of Fulvio Miletti, the mayor and municipal doctor of Bonito, physician of the Ferragamo family and their client.
  • 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.
  • From their marriage, six children were born: Fiamma, Ferruccio, Giovanna, Fulvio, Leonardo, Massimo. After the wedding, they moved to Florence in a villa near Fiesole. After the death of her husband in 1961, Wanda took over the family-owned manufacturer, thus becoming the CEO for more than 20 years.
  • 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.
  • Since then, the company turned from a footwear company to a ready-to-wear and total look one, thanks also to the help of her sons.She died in Florence on October 18th, 2018.

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