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Bottega Veneta

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Founded in the early 1960's, Bottega Veneta is a manufacturer of consumer goods, producing primarily men's and women's ready-to-wear clothing, small leather goods, and exclusive home items. The company is reputed for quality and exclusivity and its famed signature Intrecciato Line. The company merged with Gucci Group in July 2001.

1 The Label
2 The Designer
3 The Look
4 Boutiques
5 External links

The Label

Bottega Veneta was launched by Vittorio and Laura Moltedo in 1966. It developed as a family business of luxury leather accessories in Vicenza, near Venice. During the 1990s, interest in the brand declined and in 2000, British Designer Giles Deacon was employed to shake-up the languishing house and the Bottega Veneta Ready-To-Wear line was launched. Deacon's acclaimed strong, irreverent, but ultimately wearable designs helped BV achieve previously unreached levels of success. When Tom Ford persuaded Gucci Group to buy out Bottega Veneta, Giles Deacon was replaced by Tomas Maier, whose aesthetic is far more neutral and understated. Interest in the brand continued to grow and Bottega Veneta is now, once again, considered to be a major player in the luxury leather goods market. Many current Bottega Veneta leather goods are recognisable by their distinctive styling and signature Intrecciato weave, but they are generally only labelled on the inside (although, under Deacon, small, subtle logos were employed on the hardware). Bottega Veneta’s approach is best summed up by a company slogan that loosely translates as "When your own initials are enough"

The Designer

German-born Tomas Maier took the helm in 2001 and continued to revive the flagging brand by reworking the traditional woven leather signature.

The Look

In contrast to the aesthetic of his predecessor, Giles Deacon, under Tomas Maier, the Bottega Veneta Ready-To-Wear aesthetic is generally understated, with simple, clean lines, ladylike silhouettes and (particularly for S/S collections) Greco-Roman inspired draping and folding predominating. The current, subtle, R-T-W colour palette consists largely of light-toned neutrals and pastels for recent Spring/Summer collections, including S/S '07 and S/S '08 and black, neutrals and faded colours, such as reds and yellows for Autumn/Winter '07 - '08. Bottega is most known for its hand-woven leather goods (bags, belts, and shoes). The finest leathers are used and they are handcrafted in Italy. At $2,000+, the typical current Bottega handbag boasts clean lines, the softest Intreciatto woven leathers, and a classic palette. Major trends are nodded to (such as patent and studs for A/W '07 - '08), but always in a toned-down, easy-to-wear way.