Giuseppe Zanotti was born in San Mauro Pascoli, a small village on the Adriatic Riviera, a few kilometers away from Fellini’s Rimini. His strong passion for music, fashion and art drives him towards the world of beauty and accessories in the early Eighties. Enchanted by feet and native to a village of luxury shoemaking tradition, he starts his career as a freelance designer working with fashion Maisons like Valentino, Thierry Mugler, Missoni, Dior, Roberto Cavalli, Ferré until today, with Balmain, Proenza Schouler, Thakoon, Christopher Kaine and Delfina Delettrez. The big leap, however, comes in 1994 when he decides to take over a small shoemaking company and devote to an ambitious project: designing and manufacturing his own shoes. With a small workshop employing 15 people, including a jeweler, a heel and tree expert and an embroiderer, he started work on his first collection. Today, more than 350 skilled people work at his company which manufactures over 400,000 pairs of luxury women shoes.
In 2000, Giuseppe Zanotti opened his first boutique in Milan. Further boutiques were opened in New York City, Paris, London, Moscow, Dubai, San Francisco, Stockholm, etc., reaching fifty stores globally.
He has been nominated “Designer of the Year” three times (2000, 2007, 2009) by Fairchild and won the “Prix d'Excellence de la Mode” for best footwear collection by Marie Claire International in 2010.
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