Berluti
Berluti is a company incorporated by the Italian Alessandro Berluti in Paris 1895 shoe manufacturing company that manufactures next maßangefertigen and ready-made men's shoes in the top price segment since 2005, exclusive leather goods for men and high-priced since 2011 Clothes for Men and its own network of Berluti - boutiques sold worldwide. The company belongs since 1993 to the French luxury goods group LVMH.
Company History
The company was founded in 1895 by the learned carpenter Alessandro Berluti (* 1865), who came from the Italian Senigallia and had emigrated to France, based in Paris. First, he made shoes on stage for an Italian-born theater company and produced after several years in the commercial -quality custom-made shoes for the end user. At the Paris World Exposition in 1900 he presented his exclusive shoe models. 1905 Berluti returned back to Italy and continued his shoe business in Senigallia. 1928 moved Alessandro Torello son to Paris and opened in Paris on rue du Mont Thabor, near the Place Vendôme a Berluti boutique. In the 1950s, the expansion of the business made a move in the Rue Marbeuf, a side street of the Avenue des Champs- Élysées, necessary, where there is still the Berluti 's headquarters. In 1959 Torellos son Talbinio, actually architect, into the company and in addition to existing custom-made shoes a collection of confection shoes, which no longer had to be custom made. Since 1980, the company Olga Berluti (* 1945 ), a native of Parma niece of Torello and cousin of Talbinio Berluti, which is actually a costume, but has been working since her youth in the company and is today one of the few measures footwear work in the world leads can count. Andy Warhol was in 1962 Berluti customer and could be adapted pointy shaped by the then 17 -year-old Olga Berluti bespoke shoes. The clientele of Berluti belonged over time, among other things, the Duke of Windsor, Yul Brynner, Robert De Niro, Jean Cocteau and Gérard Depardieu.
Berluti in 1993 was bought by the French luxury goods company and its board chairman Bernard Arnault and integrated as a luxury brand in the LVMH portfolio. With the company's takeover by LVMH and the financial resources involved, the international expansion was driven forward and opens up further Berluti boutiques worldwide. In 2005 the range was extended to high-priced leather goods such as belts, bags and purses etc..
Berluti is known for traditional craftsmanship and the use of high quality leather and various materials ( including alligator or ostrich ), based on specially developed - are treated surface- way and decorated depending on the collection if necessary - and sometimes unconventional. Maßangefertige shoes by Berluti, are estimated for the more than 250 steps that are priced beyond the 3,000 euros per couple. Shoes from the confection collection are on sale from 750 euros. In Christian Kracht's novel 1979 2001 Berluti shoes were known as the " the world's best shoes ." The brand is strictly limited only sold through its own boutiques network. The state in 2012 there were a total of about 35 Berluti boutiques in Paris, Cannes, London, Milan, Moscow, Beirut, Doha, Dubai, New York City, as well as in Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore. For 2013, the company announced the opening of a third Parisian shops business in the elegant 9, Rue du Faubourg Saint- Honoré, where there was a Faconnable boutique to date.
The corporate headquarters and the flagship store are still in the 26, rue Marbeuf in Paris. Your generous Atelier Olga Berluti has set up in the Marais district in the early 2000s. The company operates since 1992 the Swann Club, to the mid-2000s already 100 members, namely the best Berluti customers were invited. Since spring 2011, Berluti is headed by Bernard Arnault 's son Antoine Arnault ( born 1977 ). With the employment of the Italian Modegesigners Alessandro Sartori, who was working for Z Zegna previously, the Berluti range in mid-2011 has been extended to an exclusive menswear line. To develop the menswear line, LVMH bought in June 2011 at the Paris founded in 1933, Mr. Schneider Edel - Arnys. The first Berluti mode was introduced in January 2012 for the autumn / winter 2012-13 under the Paris fashion shows in a presentation. In July 2012, LVMH also the company founded in 2004, the critically acclaimed Parisian shoemaker Anthony Delos ( b. 1978 ) bought the name Anthony Delos Bottier & Cie and workshop in Rosiers- sur -Loire in Angers and integrated into the Berluti operation. Delos itself is now executive at Berluti.