Museo Salvatore Ferragamo

If there is such a thing as un tempio for foot-wear - this is it. The shoes in this dramatically displayed collection were designed by Salvatore Ferragamo ( 1898-1960). Born in southern Italy, he jumped started his career in Hollywood by creating shoes for people like Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino. He then returned to Florence and set up a shop in the basement of the 13th century Palazzo Spini Ferroni. The collection includes about 16,000 shoes and those on exhibit are frequently rotated. But guess what, they also do not allow pictures in the museo. Fa nabala - I mean really!!!

So I did the next best thing and went window shopping. Florence's most fashionable shops are concentrated in the center of la citta. The fanciest designer shops are mainly on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova. So, con la macchina fotografica in mano, I snapped photos of some of the window displays for:  Ferragamo, Prada, Gucci, Ferre, Vuitton, Fendi and D&G.  Some may be hard to see because of the reflections. But I tried my best. Actually some wound up having creative effects per fortuna!!!      Ciao, Vincenzo