MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Italian fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo has taken a museum detailing its history and culture online, allowing young designers to add their creative touch to its shoe models.
The website, www.museoferragamo.com, is dedicated to its "shoemaker to the stars" founder and includes pictures, vintage films relating to the Florence-based maison, which is known for its shoes, silk ties and scarves as well as handbags.
The fashion house, for whom Claudia Schiffer has modelled, was founded in the 1920s by the late Salvatore Ferragamo who started out designing footwear and made shoes for the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo and Audrey Hepburn.
Visitors can browse through Ferragamo archives as well as book tickets to the actual museum in Florence. Artists can download famous shoe models, redesign them and send them back with a panel of judges picking a winner to join a virtual gallery every three months.
(Editing by Paul Casciato)
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
SALVATORE FERRAGAMO LAUNCHES AN ONLINE STORE
The Ferragamo Group, one of the world’s leading luxury brands, has launched its online store.
The Florentine brand’s products are now available for sale at the www.ferragamo.com website, which has been entirely redesigned in an innovative style for a unique user experience.
Online shopping, which is already available for users in Italy and the UK, will be extended to the US and major European markets over the course of the next few months.
The new Ferragamo website features sophisticated graphics and a refined “look and feel”, with a simple, user-friendly layout. Its high image quality lets shoppers appreciate the fine craftsmanship and excellence of the brand’s products, which have made it famous around the world.
By navigating the site, visitors take part in over 80 years of history of the brand and its “timeless elegance”, in a fascinating journey from product discovery to purchase.
“Internet has certainly revolutionised our shopping habits and now even luxury shoppers are looking for direct contact with companies. The search for information and the desire to shop should not be limited by time and place,” explains Michele Norsa, CEO of Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A. “The decision to directly manage this new fundamental channel is part of our long-term strategy and has enabled us to launch an
online store destined to be one of our top performers around the world by 2010.” Ferragamo’s online presence also includes a new site for the company’s museum, which keeps students, young people and designers up-to-date on the company’s history and culture.
At www.museoferragamo.com visitors can search the company’s historical archives and participate in a number of projects sponsored by the museum, including the new contest for young shoe designers.
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ferragamo news
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ferragamo store has become more huge.
The Florentine brand’s products are now available for sale at the www.ferragamo.com website, which has been entirely redesigned in an innovative style for a unique user experience.
Online shopping, which is already available for users in Italy and the UK, will be extended to the US and major European markets over the course of the next few months.
The new Ferragamo website features sophisticated graphics and a refined “look and feel”, with a simple, user-friendly layout. Its high image quality lets shoppers appreciate the fine craftsmanship and excellence of the brand’s products, which have made it famous around the world.
By navigating the site, visitors take part in over 80 years of history of the brand and its “timeless elegance”, in a fascinating journey from product discovery to purchase.
“Internet has certainly revolutionised our shopping habits and now even luxury shoppers are looking for direct contact with companies. The search for information and the desire to shop should not be limited by time and place,” explains Michele Norsa, CEO of Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A. “The decision to directly manage this new fundamental channel is part of our long-term strategy and has enabled us to launch an
online store destined to be one of our top performers around the world by 2010.” Ferragamo’s online presence also includes a new site for the company’s museum, which keeps students, young people and designers up-to-date on the company’s history and culture.
At www.museoferragamo.com visitors can search the company’s historical archives and participate in a number of projects sponsored by the museum, including the new contest for young shoe designers.
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ferragamo news
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ferragamo store has become more huge.
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