HistoryChildhoodSalvatore Ferragamo was born in 1898
Bonito, Italy, the eleventh of fourteen children. After making his first pair of shoes, a pair of high heels, at age nine for his sisters to wear at their confirmation), Salvatore Ferragamo decided that he had found his role in life.
First StepsIn 1915, Salvatore Ferragamo emigrated to
Boston, Massachusetts, where one of his brothers worked in a cowboy boot factory. After spending 13 years in the US, Ferragamo returned to Italy in 1927, settling in
Florence. He began to fashion shoes for prominent females, including the
Maharani of Cooch Behar, Eva Perón and
Marilyn Monroe.