The Cobbler Who Conquered Hollywood: The Unlikely Rise of Salvatore Ferragamo with Dana Thomas

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Salvatore Ferragamo was a cobbler’s son from southern Italy who crossed the Atlantic with nothing, conquered Hollywood, and built one of the world’s great fashion dynasties. Yet he remains one of luxury’s unsung legends. When Oscar-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino asked award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Dana Thomas to write the screenplay for a documentary about Ferragamo’s life, the result was Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams. Thomas, a longtime American correspondent in Paris, European Editor for Palmer magazine, and Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, will share the remarkable discoveries she made while researching Ferragamo’s life, along with the fascinating world of luxury, craftsmanship, and ambition behind her book, Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster.