Tod's Group is an Italian company which produces luxury shoes and other leather goods, and is presided over by businessman Diego Della Valle. Dorino Della Valle started the shoemaking business out of a basement in the late 1920s. Diego Della Valle, Dorino's elder son, expanded the workshop and turned it into a factory that started manufacturing shoes for American department stores in the 1970s. Diego brought in innovative marketing strategies in the early 1980s, kept the handmade manufacturing process and went on to create brands of lifestyle named Tod's, Hogan and Fay. (source Tods.com)
http://www.tods.comAn exclusive collaboration between two great Italian icons. Tod’s and Ferrari, international symbols of Made in Italy, working together to celebrate the craftsmanship, passion and creativity that they represent and the unique style of the values that underpin Italian tradition. (Source Tods.com)
http://store.ferrari.comNicopanda is a fashion and lifestyle brand developed in 2011 by award winning creative director Nicola Formichetti. The nicopanda line was first introduced in September 2011 at Nicola's pop up shop in New York's Tribeca district. Along with the Gage/Clemenceau Architects, the space at 50 walker street was transformed into a mirrored prism that housed vintage Versace, MUGLER, Uniqlo, Nicopanda products like the zombiepanda rings, iPhone and iPad skins in collaboration with Gizmobies, and looks by the Haus of Gaga. Nicola worried that people wouldn't show up to the store.
https://www.nicopanda.comBally was founded by Carl Franz Bally and his brother Fritz in the basement of their family home in Schönenwerd in the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland. The original family business was the manufacture of elastic ribbon. Bally is currently under the leadership of CEO Frédéric de Narp (November,2013), with Pablo Coppola as Design Director (February, 2014) and parent company JAB Holdings at the helm. In 2008 TPG Capital sold Bally International AG to Vienna, Austria-based Labelux Group, a luxury goods holding firm which also owns Jimmy Choo Ltd. and was founded by the German billionaire Reimann family as part of the family’s investment arm Joh A. Benckiser. Today, the company is headquartered in Caslano, Ticino, Switzerland and run by JAB Holdings. The company announced that Frédéric de Narp, a former executive at Harry Winston, would become its chief executive officer in November 2013.
http://www.bally.comBorn in 2006 with the purpose of creating a high quality sneaker unique to its kind, GIENCHI was the first shoe brand to bring together the concept of industrial yet elegant. With the exclusive use of premium materials , blended with the rugged look of studs, GIENCHI set the "spike craze" trend exploited by many fashion houses, almost a decade ago. In 2014, after gaining international success due to its signature "dirty" look and being sold in over 400 of the best stores worldwide, GIENCHI has evolved into a full blown shoe brand, introducing new styles and materials, perpetuating its legacy of MADE IN ITALY, handcrafted footwear. Under the new name of METAL GIENCHI, the brand strives to continue bringing an innovative high quality product to the market, playing around with luxurious materials, fun patterns and sophisticated silhouettes yet always taking inspiration from the industrial background of the designer.
https://www.gienchi.it