Company History.

Every single pair of Bruno Magli shoes is the product of a collaborative effort from start to finish. The process begins with the design team and a sketchpad, and ends with beautifully handcrafted shoes with each style original, trademarked and patented.

The impeccable quality and cutting-edge design is why Bruno Magli shoes are featured as part of the permanent collection at the Modern Museum of Art in New York.

Bruno Magli has a long rich history of developing relationships with world famous celebrities, sports stars, and world leaders including – Sophia Lauren, Maria Callas, Laura Bush, Jennifer Lopez, Mary J Blige, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bob Wright, Mel Brooks, Robin Williams, P Diddy, Patrick Ewing, Joan Collins, President Clinton, and more!

Bruno Magli footwear is collected by many and is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, In New York and The Bata shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada.  In addition, Magli maintains an extensive archive of shoes and accessories in our Bologna factory.

Magli: The Story of a Dynasty, by Samuele Mazza:
Stiletto heels and low-cut, or "décolleté," designs are as common as miniskirts these days and most people don't realize it was Magli who introduced the world to this look back in the sixties. Magli: The Story of a Dynasty, by Samuele Mazza, is a big glossy tribute to the once family-run company that aims to illustrate these sorts of achievements. Printed in both Italian and English, the book charts the company¹s history from its cottage industry beginnings in Bologna in 1936 to its present-day upscale market dominance.   Strikingly designed, Magli is more than just pictures of shoes. Color drawings from a variety of artists evoke the shoemaker's aesthetic sensibility as well as describing the evolution of footwear through the decades. And the shoes themselves are presented as objects d'art, often in blow-ups that make them larger than life. It's a design choice indicative of pride, because the close-ups allow the workmanship to be easily inspected. Only master craftsmen confident of their abilities would permit such scrutiny, but this is precisely what Magli employs, and so the book is a nice representation of the spirit of the company and a must for those who revel in the compact glamour of a stylish shoe.

Bruno Magli is a privately owned company.  Owned by the Opera Group, an Investment fund, along with Bruno Magli, their portfolio includes Bulgari, founded in 1884, B&B Italia fine contemporary furniture founded in 1966, A.G. Ferrari Fine Italian Foods founded in 1919 in California, The Sector Watch Company, and a luxury Yacht builder.