A few weeks after moving into its new home in a sensitively transformed 15th-century Franciscan convent, Berluti gathered clients and friends of the Maison to celebrate this new chapter in its history. This soirée paid tribute to the dual French and Italian heritage that’s been central to Berluti’s DNA ever since it was founded in late-19th-century Paris by a family of shoemakers hailing from Italy’s Marche region.
Guests first enjoyed a private tour of the new Milan flagship, which unfolds as a series of rooms showcasing Berluti’s wealth of savoir-faire, from the art of patina to the craft of shoemaking. At the end of the tour, each guest was gifted a special commemorative leather bracelet; crafted with offcuts from the Ferrara manifattura, these are patinated in a shade called Grass, the emblematic green of the club chairs set out in the different rooms.
