The heiress of the Italian luxury house creates jewelry outside the family sphere, using tuscan factories.
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Italian fashion is so fond of dynasties that it is tasty to see Maria Sole Ferragamo extracts from family affairs. For two years, the granddaughter of the founder Salvatore Ferragamo has played her own ranges with her so-the studio jewelry claw. “At the age of 9, my mother offered me pearls, copper son and pliers to create my own bracelets. I found it exhilarating,” says the thirties.
Each summer, she also visits the factories of the Florentine house: “With us, we were not going to Disneyland, but for me, these factories had the same power of fascination.” She may have studied the Architecture, she says that an idea has always remained in the lead: would it be possible to imagine jewelry from these countless leather falls accumulated in Tuscan factories? She enrolled in the London Central School Saint Martins to train in jewelry techniques and in order to answer this question.
graphic rasics, twisted necklace, diamond wire cuffs, winding loops that have a lot of effect … “I like structure, geometry, symmetry , these architectural principles that we find everywhere, she explains. I draw my models on a 3D animation software, and a machine then cuts leather. ensue games of superposition, strengthening, treatment of the surface “, often glittery or iridescent in an almost disco spirit.
After discovering stocks of unusual brass in 2021, from which she pulled rhodiated or enamelled loops in a spiral, she will offer at the end of the year her first rings and pins, as well as a “jewel bag”. This month, in collaboration with Sotheby’s, she also releases a limited edition around three rooms, each inspired by a rigorous building: the Vessel (New York), the Hall of the British Museum (London) and the Louis Vuitton Foundation ( Paris).