Maison 11 of 100 · Fashion & Couture
Bottega Veneta
The reading
When the logo is the weave, the brand cannot shout. Louise Trotter’s brief is to keep the house quiet enough that the leather does the talking. Veneto craft plus a New York/Paris client who is finished with monograms.
The house
- Origin
- Italy
- Founded
- 1966
- Atelier
- Fashion & Couture
- Ownership
- Kering
- Signature
- Intrecciato / Andiamo
- Register note
- Intrecciato as category-of-one This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Its place in the register, counted
The register's Italy cohort runs to nineteen — the second-largest national group here — and it is one. Kering holds five of the hundred, this one among them: Gucci, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and Boucheron. It is the 74th-oldest house in the register. Counted inside its own room it stands 11th of the twenty-five houses this register files under Fashion & Couture. Forty houses in this register date from 1950 or later, and it is one. Twelve houses in this register date from the 1960s, and it is one.