Rene Caovilla
January 31, 2009 by cinder
Filed under Designers, Shopping Guide
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This Rene Caovilla story begins at the dawn of the 20th century. Edoardo Caovilla, embarked on a road that was halfway between handcraft and couture shoe-making which his son, René Fernando, evolved in the Fifties, forging the link with art and fashion. With his sights set on the select top-end of the market, he became a sculptor of sophisticated evening shoes, elegant bejewelled creations, sensual super-precious chaussures.
René Caovilla thus carved his niche as the creatore of international standing. The Seventies saw him enter the fashion arena, thanks to a patron of excellence: Valentino Garavani. The special creative affinity nascent between the couturier and the designer led to the birth of cult objects, fetish creations carrying the signature emblem of “Valentino by René Caovlla.”
The Veneto-based company is one of the gems of Italy’s North-east, a few kilometers from Venice. In a wing at hte main headquarters, a villa will house an archive dating back to the 1940s to the present, with more than 3,000 creations personally selected and conserved by René Caovilla for the realization of this dream.
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