The Salvatore Ferragamo Shoe Museum documents the whole of Salvatore Ferragamo’s activity, from his return to Italy in 1927 until his death in 1960, highlighting his technical and artistic ability, which, through the choice of colours, the imagination of models and the experimentation of materials, was able to offer a fundamental contribution to the development and affirmation of the "Made in Italy"";.
Some models demonstrate Salvatore Ferragamo’s relationship with the artists of the time, such as the Futurist painter Lucio Venna, author of some advertising sketches and the well-known Ferragamo footwear label; others demonstrate the continuous search for the perfect fit and the invention of particular constructions and materials, from the famous cork ‘wedge’, patented in 1936 and immediately copied all over the world to the raffia or cellophane uppers, the paper for candies, adopted during the Second World War period. There are also shoes famous for being created for Hollywood stars, such as Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn.
